By
Jose Ceja
Arizona Daily Wildcat
A UA student was arrested for drunken driving Thursday evening.
An officer driving east on East Speedway Boulevard noticed a 1997 Toyota Tacoma swerving in the lane it was driving in, and so he pulled it over near North Mountain Avenue and East Elm Street, reports stated.
The officer spoke with the driver, Timothy Steuernol, 21, of the 3000 Block of East Speedway Boulevard, who had bloodshot, watery eyes, reports stated.
The officer also noticed a strong smell of intoxicants coming from the car, so he asked Steuernol to step out of the vehicle so he could determine where the smell was coming from, reports stated.
After being administered field sobriety tests, Steuernol was arrested, taken to UAPD headquarters and charged with drunken driving.
The two other passengers in Steuernol's car were released at the scene and walked home, reports stated.
While at UAPD headquarters, Steuernol requested an independent alcohol blood test, and the officer volunteered to take him to a hospital, reports stated.
The officer told Steuernol that he thought such a test would cost about $450, but Steuernol did not believe him, reports stated.
After receiving confirmation of this price from an ER nurse at UMC, Steuernol declined to have the test taken, reports stated.
Steuernol was released at UAPD headquarters and took a taxi home.
A Tucson man was arrested at a convenience store Thursday after attempting to steal cheesecake bars, reports stated.
A UAPD officer was flagged down by the manager of a Circle K, 1610 E. Sixth St., because the manager had detained a man for shoplifting.
The manager told the officer that he had seen Jeremy Sean O'Brien, 27, of the 6000 Block of Sherpa Street, put three cheesecake bars in the front pocket of his jacket, reports stated.
O'Brien admitted to stealing the bars and gave two of them back to the officer, reports stated.
The manager of the Circle K told the officer he had warned O'Brien about panhandling there before, reports stated.
While the officer searched him, he discovered a necklace with a silver hollow tube around O'Brien's neck which had some cotton inside. The officer suspected it was used for holding heroin, reports stated.
The officer used a field drug testing kit to confirm that it was heroin, reports stated.
The officer also found a syringe and another cheesecake bar in O'Brien's jacket, reports stated.
Since O'Brien is a repeat offender, the officer charged him with felony possession of drug paraphernalia, shoplifting, false reporting to police and trespassing, reports stated.
He was taken to Pima County Jail and booked.
An unknown person smashed the window of a UA truck with a rock Wednesday, reports stated.
A UA employee said he parked the truck at the corner of East Fourth Street and North Euclid Avenue Wednesday morning and when he returned noticed that the back window had been smashed, reports stated.
The value of the damage is unknown, and there are no witnesses or suspects at this time.
A bike belonging to a UA employee was stolen from outside a UA building Wednesday, reports stated.
The employee said he locked his Bianchi brand mountain bike to a bicycle rack on the west side of the Harvill building, 1103 E. Second St., with a cable lock and when he returned noticed it was missing.
The employee said he saw the cable lock had been cut in half, reports stated.
There are no witnesses or suspects at this time.
Cash belonging to two UA students was stolen from their dorm room Wednesday evening, reports stated.
The students, who share a room in Coronado Residence Hall, 822 E. Fifth St., said that sometime between 10 p.m. Wednesday and 11 a.m. Thursday, someone stole $290 from their room, reports stated.
The first student said $200 belonging to him was missing from a sock drawer in the room, reports stated.
The second student said that his $90 was stolen from a desk drawer, reports stated.
The students said that although people usually go in and out of their room, it was locked overnight, reports stated.
There were no signs of forced entry, and there are no witnesses or suspects at this time.
