By
Jose Ceja
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Four UA students were arrested Sunday for setting off a fire alarm in a residence hall, reports stated.
A UAPD officer responded to Kaibab-Huachuca Residence Hall, 922 E. Fourth St., after a fire alarm went off, reports stated.
A resident assistant told the officer that there was no fire but some students were using a smoke machine, reports stated.
The officer approached the room where the smoke was coming from and noticed a "very thick, smoke-like haze," coming from behind the door, reports stated.
The officer asked to speak with the residents of the room, and the RA returned with Joseph Kumer, 18, and Patrick James Leonetti, 20, reports stated.
Kumer and Leonetti told the officer that they were using the smoke machine. At first they refused to say who they were using it with, but then they admitted to using it with two other residents of the dorm, Justin Bryon Goldberg, 19, and Timothy David Hitchings, 19, whom they said had supplied the machine, reports stated.
Kumer and Leonetti also told the officer that Goldberg had taken the machine to his room after the smoke had gotten out of control and the alarm had gone off, reports stated.
After locating Goldberg, the officer asked him if he had used the machine, and he said he had used it and taken it to his room when the smoke got out of hand, reports stated.
Goldberg then tried to locate the machine in his room, but he was not able to find it and told the officer that maybe Hitchings would know where it was, reports stated.
Hitchings returned to the room and pulled the machine out of a small plastic container, telling the officer that he had hidden it there because "I knew you would take it," reports stated.
Hitchings told the officer that he found the smoke machine at the southwest corner of East University Boulevard and North Tyndall Avenue Thursday and planned to keep it for a few more days before returning it, reports stated.
Although Hitchings said he was not using it with the other three men, he said he let them use it, reports stated.
While the officer talked with Kumer and Leonetti, he noticed a strong smell of intoxicants on both of them and asked them if they had been drinking beer, reports stated.
They said they had been drinking and produced a case of Heineken beer, reports stated.
The RA asked the officer to press charges on the four, since he had asked them before not to use the machine, reports stated.
Kumer and Leonetti were cited for disorderly conduct and underage drinking, and Goldberg and Hitchings were charged with disorderly conduct and released at the scene.
Two UA students and two minors were arrested for smoking marijuana in a UA apartment complex.
An officer on patrol noticed a strong odor of marijuana coming from an apartment in Sky View Apartments, 1050 E. Eighth St., reports stated.
Upon approaching the apartment, the officer heard several voices coming from inside the apartment, along with a toilet flushing.
The officer obtained a key to the apartment from a resident assistant, due to "exigent" circumstances, and entered the apartment, reports stated.
Inside the apartment, the officer noticed Audrey Diana Zornizer, 18, and Suzanne Michelle Rothenburg, 18, both residents of the apartment, with two minors, reports stated.
All four people in the room said that they had smoked marijuana, provided by Zornizer, out of a bong, which Zornizer gave to the officer, reports stated.
Zornizer and Rothenburg were both charged with possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia and contributing to the delinquency of minors.
The two minors were charged with possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia and released to Rothenburg after their parents were called, reports stated.
A pickup truck was stolen from a campus parking lot Thursday, reports stated.
A Tucson man told police that he parked his white 2000 Dodge Ram in a Zone One parking lot on the northeast corner of East Second Street and North Martin Avenue Thursday evening, and when he returned three hours later, noticed it was missing.
Later that evening, officers recovered the man's truck near East Valencia Road and North Campbell Avenue after it had been in an accident, reports stated.
Officers attempted to retrieve fingerprints from the vehicle but were unsuccessful.
The damage to the truck is not known, and there are no witnesses or suspects at this time.
Police Beat is compiled from official University of Arizona Police Department Records
