Two people were harassed in the Tyndall Garage, 880 E. Fourth St., Wednesday, reports stated.

The victims were driving in a truck between the second and third levels of the garage when the driver realized he couldn't make a turn. He then backed up his vehicle in an attempt to reposition it, reports stated.

As he backed up, the driver of a silver BMW behind him began honking his horn, even though the BMW was "quite a distance" behind him. The victim told the BMW driver, "Lay off the horn. I'm just backing up," reports stated.

The BMW followed the victims to the top level of the garage, and the driver and another man got out of the car. The passenger approached the victims, who were still sitting in the truck, and opened the driver's door, telling him that he wanted to "kick his ass," reports stated.

Both men from the BMW then got back in their car and drove away, reports stated. Police searched the garage but did not find the BMW. The victims told police they wanted to press charges, reports stated.

UA Maintenance workers found a suspicious object inside an air conditioning duct in the Harshbarger Building, 1133 N. Campus Drive, Tuesday, reports stated.

Maintenance officials called police because they thought it might be a blasting-cap. The employees had handled the item, partially removing a strip of duct tape from the exterior, reports stated.

The item appeared to be a hand-made, 6-inch piece of PVC pipe with a cap on both ends and two large cut wires extending from one end. It also appeared to have been there for an extended amount of time because there was a considerable amount of dust on it, reports stated.

The workers found the item when they opened a vent in an office to replace a filter. There was no indication that the item had been there when they last changed the filter three months ago. The workers also noted that it did not appear to be a piece of air conditioning related equipment, reports stated.

The item was removed and taken to UAPD headquarters, where explosive experts from the Tucson Police Department analyzed it. After X-raying the item and opening it, they determined it was not a hazard, reports stated.

They said the item had a manufactured sensor in the middle of it. They concluded that the device was possibly a waterproofing device for an air conditioning sensor, reports stated. The item was disposed of.

A UA employee's office was vandalized Tuesday, reports stated.

A supervisor in the building at 540 N. Vine Ave. told police someone sprayed glue all over the employee's desk. The glue covered a computer monitor, a keyboard and a mouse on the desk, as well as a chair and a coat rack, reports stated. Employees told police that spray adhesive is used regularly in the office. Police took a can of spray adhesive that they found in the office and dusted it for prints, but were unable to find any usable ones, reports stated.

The employees told police they did not know who would have vandalized the office. The can of glue was disposed of.

The damage to the office equipment was not permanent.

An unknown amount of money was removed from several campus vending machines earlier this week, reports stated.

A Santa Rita Bottling Company employee met with police at La Paz Residence Hall, 602 N. Highland Ave., and informed them that money was missing from four Pepsi machines in the dorm.

There was no sign of forced entry to any of the machines; it appeared they had been opened with a valid key, reports stated.

The bottling company told police they were conducting an internal investigation to look into who could be using the key to take money from machines, reports stated.

Other thefts occurred in the Architecture and Shantz buildings, Cochise Residence Hall and the Integrated Learning Center.

Two UA students reported various items stolen from their room in Mohave Residence Hall, 1000 N. Park Ave., Tuesday, reports stated.

The items included halter-tops, blouses, pants and cosmetic supplies. They were stolen at different times between March 26 and April 11, reports stated.

The students told police they did not initially report the thefts because they thought they had just misplaced the items. They called police after they performed an intensive search of the room and still did not find the clothes, reports stated.

The students also told police they suspected a neighbor, in whose room they found some of their clothes before they made the report, reports stated.

When police questioned the neighbor, she said she did not take the clothes, and that she did not know how they ended up in her room. She suggested they might have gotten mixed up in the laundry, reports stated.

The neighbor also told police she had never been in the other students' room, but the students often leave their door open while they sleep, reports stated. Police told the women to keep their doors closed at all times. The estimated cost of the stolen items was $700, reports stated.

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.