POLICE BEAT

According to police reports, an officer saw Richy Ray Lucas, 43, of the 5700 block of North Oracle Road, while on patrol in the Bear Down Gym, 1428 E. University Blvd.

The officer recognized Lucas from a Sept. 29 trespassing incident.

Police saw Lucas wandering around a locker room, told him he was not allowed in the gym, cited and released him, reports stated.

A student gymnasium employee called police Wednesday night after he found a tampon machine vandalized in a woman's locker room.

According to police reports, the campus recreation employee told police he found the damaged dispenser in Bear Down Gym, 1428 E. University Blvd., at 9:15 p.m. The tampons and money were gone.

Police went to the gym and inspected the machine. According to reports, the vending machine had been forced open and there were pry marks at the top of the dispenser.

A student called police Wednesday evening after one of her children was pelted with oranges.

The student told officers her son and daughter were walking across the lawn on the west side of the Arizona State Museum, 1013 E. University Blvd., at 5:23 p.m., when five teen-age boys on bicycles rode by them and threw oranges at the woman's son, police reports stated.

According to reports, one of the oranges struck him in his right shin and the other on his right cheek, causing his glasses to fall off.

The two children ran back to the Electrical and Computer Engineering building, 1230 E. Speedway Blvd., where their mother was studying.

She called police and told them the orange-throwing boys had been seen riding north on Park Avenue toward East Second Street.

Officers at the scene saw oranges and bike tire tracks, reports stated.

A UA employee called police Tuesday morning after a woman called in a bomb threat to his office.

The man told police that at 10:55 a.m. a woman called the Economics building, 1110 E. North Campus Drive, and said in a muffled voice, "There is a bomb in the building," then hung up, police reports stated.

Three officers searched the building but found no evidence of a bomb.

A student called police Tuesday night after she found her locker severely damaged.

The student told police she found the vandalized locker at 7 p.m. in the Music building, 1017 N. Olive St.

According to police reports, the student said she noticed the padlock to her locker pulled away from the normal position, and the combination wheel would not turn. She also told police she had to shut the lock with a lot of force before she could get it to work.

An officer inspected the locker and saw a small dent on top of the lock. The steel was dented in a straight line and the officer believed it resembled the mark of a flat-head screwdriver, reports stated.

The locker was difficult to open and the officer noted another dent in its handle.

A locker next to the student's was also vandalized.

A Scottsdale businessman called police Wednesday morning after he installed an alarm system in a campus building and found it damaged the next day.

According to police reports, the man told police he installed the system Tuesday in the Mirror Casting Facility, 527 N. Warren Ave. He said all the new equipment was installed and functioning when he left at 2:30 p.m., police reports stated.

The man told police he returned to the building at 6:20 a.m. the next morning and found a unit attached to the south door had been pulled off the wall and had a large dent. The unit was still functional, but the monitoring bracket and back plate were damaged and had to be replaced, reports stated.

A student called police Wednesday afternoon after she found damage to the passenger-side window of her car.

The student told police she parked her 1992 red Chevrolet Cavalier in a UA parking lot at North Highland Avenue and East Eighth Street at 3 p.m. Monday. When she returned to her car Wednesday at 11 a.m., a window had been knocked off its track and the paint was scratched, police reports stated.

Nothing was taken from the car.

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