By Devin Simmons
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Thursday January 16, 2003
Police responded to reports of an unknown male making strange comments in an office in the Old Main Building on Monday, reports stated.
A female employee in the sexual education office contacted police after the man, described as in his 20's with reddish-blond hair, entered the office and made strange comments, such as asking for candy and saying, "It looks like you do a lot of stuff with sex," reports stated.
The employee remembered the subject had been in the office last Halloween, dressed in a costume, and had been asking for candy. During that incident the employee said that the subject started "playing with my hair," reports stated.
The subject had also been seen near the office by other employees last November.
In his latest visit the subject stated that he was a UA graduate student in anthropology and that he was working in a bar, but that he wanted to get fired because he didn't like his job, reports stated.
The subject left the area. The officer who responded to the call told the employee to contact UAPD immediately if she saw him again.
A UA student stopped an attempted bike theft Monday in front of McClelland Hall, 1130 E. Helen Street, reports stated.
The student was sitting on his front porch across from McClelland when he heard a banging noise coming from in front of the building. The student walked across the street, towards the bike racks, and discovered a man in his mid-30's with graying hair banging on something, reports stated.
When the student asked the man what he was doing he said that he was looking for his keys.
The man fled the scene westbound on East Helen Street. Police searched the area and were unable to find him. The red road bike was taken to the station for safekeeping, reports stated.
A UA student fell down in a visitor parking lot on Monday and sustained non-life threatening injuries, reports stated.
The accident happened at approximately 2 p.m. when the student tripped over some type of incline and injured herself.
She was treated at Northwest Hospital Urgent Care for abrasions and bruises to her left and right hands and left elbow and a cut on her lip, reports stated.
A Tucson man was arrested for shoplifting and false reporting to a law enforcement officer on Tuesday at North Cherry Boulevard and East Second Street, reports stated.
The man was pursued by the manager of the UofA Bookstore after he was seen leaving with a couple textbooks wrapped in newspaper which he failed to pay for.
An officer stopped the man after receiving a dispatch, and asked him for a receipt for the books he was carrying. The man admitted that he had taken them and not bought them, and the officer placed him in handcuffs, reports stated.
The man, who was not a UA student, said he was stealing the books for his girlfriend.
En route to the Pima County Correctional Facility the man repeatedly told the officer of his bought with depression over the death of his brother, reports stated.
The man had no identification on him and the officer later discovered, after a conversation with the suspect's sister, that the name the man had originally given him was actually the name of his deceased brother, reports stated.
The man admitted to lying about his name and was booked in the Pima County Jail. The officer advised the suspect that if he ever returned to UA property he would be charged with trespassing, reports stated.