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A UA student called police Thursday after her computer was hacked into, police reports stated.

The student said she was sitting in her room at about 10 p.m. at Graham-Greenlee Residence Hall, 610 N. Highland Ave., when she noticed her computer was being used by an outside party, via the UA ethernet connection, without her permission.

According to reports, the woman went to her computer and saw her America Online Instant Messenger software sending messages to people without her commands.

She tried to close the program, but someone else had control of all her programs.

Some of the messages being sent from her software were obscene, so the woman contacted UAPD.

An officer went to her room to see what was occurring on her computer, and he saw some obscene messages and that she couldn't control her computer, reports stated.

When the officer suggested she try shutting the computer down, windows would open with pictures of naked women, reports stated.

When the pictures popped up, messages to the woman were sent via Instant Messenger stating, "Why won't you talk to me," and, "How do you like this?" reports stated.

The officer then instructed her to type, "This is (an officer) from the University of Arizona Police Department, who are you?" and when she did, all the programs on her screen began closing, reports stated.

Her screen then went blank, and she couldn't get the computer to restart.

The officer called another officer to help her with the problem, and the other officer suggested she disconnect from the ethernet and manually shut the machine off, reports stated.

The computer worked fine after the incident, but police do not know who was accessing her computer.

A UA student called UAPD Thursday after someone stole her purse, reports stated.

The woman said she was sitting outside Hopi Residence Hall, 1440 E. Fourth St., at about 10 p.m. Wednesday when her friend had an emergency inside the hall, reports stated.

She said she left her purse on the table and went inside to help her friend.

According to reports, the woman said she returned 10 minutes later and found her purse missing.

She called UAPD Thursday to report the missing purse, which is valued at an estimated $200, her sunglasses, valued at an estimated $200 and lipstick and lip liner valued at an estimated $40 stolen.

She said she didn't see anyone near her purse before she left or after she returned to the area.

Police arrested a man Wednesday after pulling him over for expired registration tags on his vehicle, reports stated.

An officer was driving southbound at about 11:14 p.m. on North Campbell Avenue near East Sixth Street when he saw Jose Franco, 45, of the 00 block of West 28th Street, with a tag on his license plate that was expired.

When the light turned green, Franco failed to cross through the intersection, so the officer slowed, waited for Franco to pass and turned his lights on to pull him over.

Franco didn't pull over, so the officer turned his siren on for three seconds and said over his loudspeaker, "driver, pull to the right," five times, reports stated.

Franco finally came to a stop in the left turn lane at Campbell and East Broadway Boulevard.

The officer called for backup and then approached Franco.

According to reports, Franco smelled heavily of alcohol and said he had been drinking a little.

Another officer tried to give Franco field sobriety tests, but Franco declined because of a foot injury, reports stated.

Franco was transported to UAPD for a breath test, which he submitted to.

Franco was cited on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol, DUI-blood alcohol content above .10, DUI-BAC above .18, extreme DUI, driving with a suspended license and expired registration.

He was released to his wife, and as he left, he said, "I got a 12-pack (of beer) at home I got to go drink," reports stated.