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POLICE BEAT

By Liz Dailey
Arizona Daily Wildcat
November 10, 1998
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University police arrested a male student on suspicion of disorderly conduct and assaulting an officer Saturday night during the UA-Washington State football game.

According to police reports, an officer at the game told Rick Alan Deggendorfer, 22, of the 4400 block of East Havasu Road, to go to Section 7 after he entered Arizona Stadium at 7:50 p.m.

After asking Deggendorfer twice to move, the officer walked to the handicapped section, reports stated.

According to reports, as the officer went to the section, Deggendorfer called him obscene names. The officer ignored him.

Deggendorfer then said to the officer, "You suck dick," and "You are a fucking ass." He then made a gesture of "jerking off" to the officer and flipped him off, reports stated.

According to reports, the officer then asked the student to leave three times. The student was finally escorted to the second level, where he became combative with the officer. Two officers pushed Deggendorfer against a wall and told him he was under arrest for disorderly conduct, reports stated.

Police then took the student to another area and began to fill out his citation paperwork. Officers noted that Deggendorfer appeared intoxicated.

According to reports, he then approached another officer, flipped him off, stuck his tongue out at him and grabbed him by the face and head-butted him. The officer was wearing a bicycle helmet at the time.

Four officers then grabbed Deggendorfer, pushed him up against a wall and handcuffed him.

Deggendorfer was cited again and taken to Pima County Jail.


A Scottsdale man was arrested on suspicion of threats Saturday morning after he was seen harassing a female student.

According to police reports, the student was volunteering at a visitor parking lot located at East Fourth Street and North Vine Avenue at 9:30 a.m.

Police met with Charles W. Gorham, 46, of Scottsdale. Gorham told police he had a confrontation with the student but that he did not threaten her, reports stated.

He also told officers she had beaten on the hood of his car and that she had said to him, "Stop the fucking car," reports stated. He said he never exited the car.

According to reports, a Parking and Transportation employee told police Gorham had said he was late to a breakfast and told the employee, "If you report me, you're going to be in real trouble."

A witness sitting 20 yards away during the incident told police she heard a "thump" from the student's direction and she believed the sound was from the student's hands on Gorham's car, reports stated.

She told officers Gorham directed his car at the student and began to drive and she heard him scream obscenities at the woman. She also said she heard him tell another parking attendant, "I'll run her ass over. I don't give a shit," reports stated.

The student filled out a written statement. In the statement she said she told Gorham he needed a slip from security to park in the lot. According to the statement, said he had no time and that he would run her over, reports stated.

The man accelerated toward her and she put her hands out. She said the man's car struck her, stopped and then Gorham screamed at her to take her hands off his car, reports stated.

According to the statement, Gorham threatened to, "beat the little fucking bitch." The woman in the front passenger seat told him to stop and the woman in the back seat said, "no dad, don't do it," reports stated.

Gorham got out of his car and threatened the student and then left to go find an employee. The woman in the front seat got out of the car and told the student she was "being a bitch," reports stated.

Gorham returned with an employee while the student was having the confrontation with the woman. According to the student's statement, the employee agreed to give Gorham a permit, walked over to his car and began to fill out a slip. Gorham, according to reports, yelled at the employee about writing on his car.

Gorham was cited and released.


A Tucson man flagged an officer down early Saturday morning after someone had thrown a bottle at him.

According to police reports, an officer was on patrol at 5:13 a.m. near the area of East First Street and North Cherry Avenue when the man stopped the officer.

The man told police he had been walking east on Speedway Boulevard when a group of men drove by in a tan station wagon and threw a bottle toward his head, reports stated.

The man was not injured and no suspects were found.

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