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POLICE BEAT

By Liz Dailey
Arizona Daily Wildcat
November 17, 1998
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University police arrested a male student early Friday morning after he allegedly refused to provide identification to an officer, police reports stated.

The officer saw Gary Max Anderson Jr., 31, of the 100 block of North Martin Street, ride a bicycle east down an alleyway, south of East Sixth Street, at 1:09 a.m. Anderson failed to stop before turning south on to North Santa Rita Avenue.

The officer stopped Anderson at East Eighth Street and Santa Rita. According to reports, the officer asked Anderson for identification. Anderson refused to give it to him or tell the officer his name.

The officer handcuffed Anderson, and as he searched him, he found an Arizona identification card in his wallet.

According to reports, police discovered Anderson had a warrant from Pima Community College Police Department for not replacing the out of state license plates on his car.

As the officer began to escort Anderson to his patrol car, Anderson lunged forward and slammed his head into the front passenger window, reports stated.

Police had Anderson sit on a curb and then contacted Tucson Fire Department personnel to examine him. Anderson refused medical attention when they arrived, reports stated.

The officer then placed Anderson in the back seat of the car and he began to bash his head against the divider screen and the back window, reports stated.

Police removed Anderson from the car and sat him on the ground. Anderson then rolled over onto his right side and began to beat his head on the curb, reports stated. The officer saw blood running down from the rear right side of his skull.

Anderson was then transported in restraints by ambulance to the Medical Center at the Veterans Affairs Department, 3601 S. Sixth Ave.

According to reports, the officer saw Anderson spit on a wall and hit his head into a cabinet while en route to the hospital.

Anderson's head abrasions were treated and he calmed down while in the hospital. He was released and the officer took him to Pima County Jail.

According to reports, Anderson, who was placed into a cell, ran from one end to the other and rammed his head into a wall. Anderson was taken back to the hospital, released after his wounds were treated and taken back to jail where he was booked.


A student called police Friday afternoon after her ex-roommate violated a restraining order while on the UA Mall, police reports stated.

The woman told police she was speaking with an employee of a company with a tent on the Mall at 2:15 p.m. She said she was filling out a sign-up sheet when she felt someone standing close behind her, reports stated.

According to reports, the woman said her former roommate was smiling at her and copying down her phone number off the sheet. She told police the restraining order took effect Nov. 1 and he is not aloud to come within 50 feet of her in public, call her or e-mail her.

According to reports, the woman asked the employee at the tent to help her, so he took her inside the tent. When she came back out he was gone.

The student told police she saw him again in the Memorial Student Union, 1303 E. University Blvd., while she waited for police, but he did not bother her that time, reports stated.

Police are leaving the woman's case open for further investigation.


Police arrested a Tucson man Saturday evening after he threw his girlfriend's dog from their apartment, police reports stated.

Police spoke to the woman at 6:09 p.m. at her home, 1516 E. Mabel St. She told the officer her boyfriend had come home intoxicated and thrown the dog out of the apartment by the collar, reports stated. She also said she had a fight with him and told him to move out.

Police then spoke with Raul E. Moreno, 34, who admitted to being "drunk" and said he threw the dog out because he had found it sitting on his new $2,000 couch when he came home, reports stated.

The man told police he would leave. Officers then discovered Moreno had two warrants for possession of drug paraphernalia and driving with a suspended license.

Police took Moreno to Pima County Jail where he was booked.

The dog did not appeared to be injured, reports stated.

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