By
Blake Smith
Arizona Daily Wildcat
University police responded to a pulled fire alarm last Monday at the Shantz Building, 1200 E. South Campus Drive, police reports stated.
When officers arrived at the building, they were taken to a room on the fifth floor, where they immediately noticed and smelled white smoke coming from the location, reports stated.
Tucson Fire was called to the scene and found the source of the smoke - an oven, reports stated.
The oven unit was being used at the time to heat and dehydrate soil samples, namely turf grass and pecan leaves, reports stated.
A researcher using the room at the time had placed the samples in the oven around 8 a.m., reports stated.
Then a student worker noticed smoke coming from the location an hour later, prompting her to pull the fire alarm, reports stated.
Tucson Fire and UAPD evacuated the building while they ventilated the affected room and cooled down the oven, reports stated.
Damage was confined to the oven and no other rooms were affected, reports stated.
UAPD dispatch received a call about a suspicious man near a campus sorority last Monday, reports stated.
Officers responded to the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, 1435 E. Second St., after three members called and said that a man was watching them from across the street, reports stated.
As officers approached the house, they were notified through radio that the suspicious man was headed westbound on Second Street near Highland Avenue, reports stated.
Police caught up with a man matching the description the women gave on the southside of the Education Building, 1430 E. Second St., but he ran away before officers could detain him, reports stated.
University police then returned to the sorority house and made contact with the women, reports stated.
They told police that the man had been seen around their house on two previous occasions before they decided to call police on Monday, reports stated.
On Aug. 11, the women started to go on a walk when they noticed the suspicious male following them, reports stated. They became frightened and decided to walk around the block only once, reports stated.
The women made contact with the man again on Aug. 12 when they noticed him hiding in the bushes across the street from the sorority house, reports stated.
UAPD advised the women to call them if they saw the suspicious man again.
University police arrested a Tucson teen Wednesday for possession of marijuana after he was pulled over near campus for having only one operational headlight, reports stated.
Officers on patrol stopped the vehicle near East Speedway Boulevard and North Park Avenue and approached the driver, reports stated.
While talking to the 17-year-old, police smelled "a light scent of burnt marijuana," reports stated.
They then asked to see the teen's tongue and noticed a green film covering it, reports stated. Officers asked the male if he knew what the film indicated, and he told them it meant he had been smoking marijuana, reports stated.
University police then searched the male's vehicle and found that he had marijuana in his possession, reports stated.
Police asked the man if he would be willing to participate in a field sobriety test. He complied and showed no signs of impairment, reports stated.
The teen was then read his rights and taken back to UAPD headquarters.
He told police that when he got off work at midnight he had taken two puffs of marijuana with some friends, reports stated.
Police released the teen to the custody of his mother.
The recovered marijuana was sent to the Arizona Department of Public Safety for testing.
UAPD officers on patrol Monday arrested a man after finding him sleeping on the porch of a local church, reports stated.
Police conducted a field interview at the First Congregational United Church of Christ, 824 E. Second Ave., with Carl Johnson, 44, of a general delivery address, and ran a wants and warrants check on the man, reports stated.
The check returned a UAPD warrant for failure to appear on drug possession charges, reports stated.
Officers recognized the man and remembered that they had previously warned him about trespassing, reports stated.
Although Johnson admitted he was warned before, he thought he could return to the premises, reports stated.
Police then pointed out several signs to the man which read: "No loitering or camping," reports stated.
Officers arrested Johnson and searched him, finding two marijuana cigarettes, reports stated.
He told police he uses marijuana for medicinal purposes, reports stated.
Johnson was transported to Pima County Jail where he was booked for failure to appear in court, trespassing, unlawful possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, reports stated.