Someone stole a coffee maker and five bags of potato chips from a kitchen in the Arizona Cancer Center, 1501 N. Campbell Ave., Monday, reports stated.

The items, which were taken from a cupboard on the south wall of the kitchen, could have been stolen anytime in the past seven days, reports stated.

The coffee maker was worth $150, and the chips were valued at $10, reports stated.

Police have no suspects or witnesses.

A UA student's backpack containing a lap-top computer and $300 worth of books was stolen from the Main Library, 1510 E. University Blvd., Monday, reports stated.

The student left her green backpack on a table when a fire alarm inside the building went off. While she was waiting for authorities to let her back in the building, she went to get food at the Student Union Memorial Center, reports stated.

She realized her bag was missing after she was admitted back into the building, reports stated.

A student called police after she got in a verbal altercation with another student in a Zone 1 parking lot at 1060 E. Lowell St., Tuesday, reports stated.

The student said she had been waiting for 30 minutes for a parking spot when a gold-colored SUV pulled up next to her and tried to take a spot that was opening up, reports stated.

The driver of the SUV got out of her vehicle and started yelling profanities at the student. The driver said it was first come first serve and that she would call police if the student didn't leave, reports stated.

The student in the SUV called police instead, and when an officer arrived at the scene, the driver of the SUV told the officer that the student had tried to ram her vehicle. The officer told the women the incident was a civil matter and no charges could be brought, since there was no evidence or witnesses, reports stated.

A UAPD officer discovered a female student sleeping in her dorm room after another student called the station to request a welfare check on the woman, reports stated.

The student who called police saw the subject write an e-mail to someone that said, "I love you, but goodbye," and then abruptly leave her room, reports stated.

Police discovered an empty bottle of Tylenol and an empty bottle of NyQuil in the student's room. A friend of the student told police that she had a history of taking Tylenol to help her sleep, and that she was known to take long walks in the middle of the night, reports stated.

There were no other notes or correspondence in the room that indicated anything was amiss, reports stated.

Yesterday, police returned to the scene and knocked on the student's door. When no one answered, they decided to enter the room, and they then found the sleeping student in her bed, reports stated.

The student told police that she was fine and that she had no intention of hurting herself, or others.

Police were notified Monday after a man attempted to return merchandise purchased with fraudulent checks at the UofA BookStore, 1209 E. University Blvd., Monday, reports stated.

The store's security manager told police that the man purchased multiple clothing items Saturday with checks from a non-existent account at the Catholic Credit Union of Tempe.

The man told police he got the checks from a man he met while he was walking downtown that same day. The man said the acquaintance told him he was a professor from Tempe and a priest in the Catholic Diocese of Wisconsin, reports stated.

The man said he went to a nearby motel with the priest after the priest asked him if he wanted to take a shower and rest, reports stated.

The man also told police that the priest told him he would cash a check in the UA Bursar's Office if he needed some money, but after discovering that the Bursar's Office was closed, they went to the bookstore. The man said the priest purchased the clothes and told him to return them on Monday for money, and then gave him his phone number and e-mail address, reports stated.

Police were able to confirm that both the phone number and the e-mail address did not exist. A clerk at the motel said no one by the man's name had stayed there in the last week, reports stated.

The bookstore security manager told police he would not press charges since he was able to recover the stolen property.

Police Beat is compiled from official University of Arizona Police Department Records. For a complete list of UAPD activity, the daily resumŽ can be found at www.uapd.arizona.edu.