Raid on a fraternity house

Police saw sorority and fraternity members running with a Parking and Transportation Services sign and wrestling in a mixture of shaving cream, fertilizer, flour and various other substances as part of an attempted raid on a fraternity early Friday morning, reports stated.

Officers were driving near East First Street and North Cherry Avenue when they saw a group of women running north on Cherry Avenue, reports stated.

Police also noticed the women were dressed in black clothing and black trash bags.

One woman was carrying a Parking and Transportation Services sign, reports stated. Police told the group to stop, but officers believe their commands weren't heard over the group's laughter and yells.

They saw the majority of two groups run into the Gamma Phi Beta sorority house, 1535 E. First St., while other members of the group were outside wrestling in toiletry, baking and feces products, reports stated.

Police tried to enter the house but the door was closed and locked just before they could enter.

"It's the police," officers heard voices say from behind the door, reports stated.

Police broke a piece of paneling off the door while kicking it, reports stated.

When officers did get inside the house, the street sign was handed over and the women, members of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority, and the men, who police believed to be Sigma Alpha Epsilon members, apologized and said they were just having fun, reports stated.

"It came from SAE. We didn't steal it," a woman told police.

Members of the sorority explained that they were raiding the SAE house to spray shaving cream and steal some of the house's items, reports stated.

Men that police believed to be SAE members said the sign would be returned to the Parking and Transportation Department. The door was boarded up.

No arrests were made and no citations were distributed.

Harassing phone calls

A woman told a student she was drinking a pureed baby Thursday, reports stated. The female student was inside her residence hall room when she received four harassing phone calls. The first call came at 11 p.m.

"Guess what we're drinking. A blended baby," the female caller told the student, reports stated.

The student hung up the phone immediately.

The student recognized the caller's voice when she called again, approximately 15 minutes later, reports stated.

During the second call, the caller spoke in a foreign language that the student didn't understand. The student noticed that there was laughter in the background.

The student's phone rang again 15 minutes later, but this time the caller was breathing heavily, reports stated.

At 2:30 a.m. the female called again, saying she was going to sleep.

The student told police she didn't recognize the caller's voice and that it sounded like the same woman had made each of the calls. She doesn't suspect anybody and said that she hasn't gotten into any disputes with anybody recently.

She did not trace any of the calls.

There are no suspects and no witnesses at this time.

Bike theft attempt

A Tucson man was arrested when police caught him riding a student's bike away Thursday evening, reports stated. Police saw two men acting suspicious near a bike rack by the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering building, 1130 N. Mountain Ave. When they noticed the officer, the men took off on bikes.

When police started to follow them, one man stopped while the other man rode away.

While talking to the man, 22, officers noticed that there was a cut cable lock on the handlebars of the man's bike. When police asked him about the bike, the man denied any knowledge of the bike being stolen and said the bike belonged to the man who rode away, reports stated.

While officers were speaking with the man, a student reported his bike stolen. The student did not see the bike that the man had been riding, but gave police a description that mirrored the bicycle.

Besides the make, model, color and specific features, the student told police the combination to the lock, reports stated.

Police photographed the bike and returned it to the student.

The 22-year-old man was arrested and taken to Pima County Jail on suspicion of theft and criminal damage, reports stated.

Police were unable to find the man who rode away.

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.