POLICE BEAT

According to police reports, the woman told officers that while she was in the Science Library, 744 N. Highland Ave., Oct. 20, a man asked her to be his lover and has continued to follow her around campus. He tried to talk to her on other occasions and often stares at her, she said.

The woman told police a different man followed her around the Memorial Student Union, 1303 E. University Blvd., and makes strange noises at her. She said she's had contact with both the men on several occasions in the past and was afraid for her safety.

A student called police Saturday afternoon to report she had been harassed by a man on a motorcycle.

The woman told officers she was riding her bicycle south on North Mountain Avenue at 2:30 p.m. when a man on a motorcycle slowed down and rode next to her, police reports stated.

The woman said she couldn't see the man's face because of his helmet, but he said to her, "Are you scared?" and, "Why aren't people friendly here like in Florida?"

The woman told police the man then passed her on his bike and waited for her at the corner of Mountain and East Drachman Street.

According to reports, when she passed him, he screamed obscenities at her and then went south on Mountain.

Police warned a student Saturday night not to steal after they saw him carry a parking sign across campus.

An officer was on patrol at 1 p.m. when he saw the student carrying a "no parking" sign on the north side of the Slonaker House, 1017 E. Second St., police reports stated.

The student told police he found the sign on the ground near North Mountain Avenue and North Campus Drive and decided to take it back to his room.

The student said he didn't realize taking the sign was a criminal violation, reports stated.

The officer warned him and took the sign back to headquarters.

A student called police Friday evening after he spilled mercury on himself while working on a laboratory experiment.

According to police reports, the student told officers he was conducting the experiment at 5:29 p.m. in the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering building, 1130 N. Mountain Ave.

The student told police he applied too much pressure to the testing device he was using and spilled about 20 grams of mercury on his shirt, which then rolled off him and onto the table.

According to reports, the student was wearing goggles and a mask and was not injured.

Medics from the Tucson Fire Department cleared the student and cleaned up the mercury.

The two other students in the room were uninjured and no one was evacuated from the building, reports stated.

An officer on patrol found a street sign laying on the ground early Monday morning.

According to police reports, the officer found the blue and yellow "not a through street" sign at the corner of East Fourth Street and North Highland Avenue. It was broken off at the base of the pole.

The officer found no suspects and took the sign to headquarters for safekeeping.

A student called police Monday afternoon after finding one of his car windows broken and his stereo gone.

According to police reports, the student told officers he parked his 1995 white Chevrolet sports utility van in the Zone 1 lot on the corner of East Sixth Street and North Cherry Avenue at 10:45 a.m.

When he returned to his van at 1 p.m., the left rear passenger side window was broken, and his $300 stereo was gone.

The student told police he turned his car alarm on before he left and that the alarm went off when the van was burglarized, but by the time he got to the van it was too late, reports stated.

Officers took two sets of fingerprints from the van for evidence.

Police Beat is compiled from Official University of Arizona Police Department reports.