By Kristopher Califano
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Friday January 31, 2003
A UA student was placed in the Dean of Students diversion program Monday after a resident assistant found his marijuana, reports stated.
A resident assistant from the Cochise Residence Hall, 1018 E. South Campus Drive, looked in a resident's open door and saw a small glass jar filled with marijuana that was placed in an open desk drawer, reports stated.
Police went to the room and spoke with two of its residents, who gave them the marijuana and said it belonged to their other roommate who was not at home. Officers told them to have their roommate call police when he returned, reports stated.
The roommate, 18, spoke to police when he returned home and said the marijuana in the jar was his, reports stated.
The student was placed in the diversion program and the 1.3 grams of marijuana were placed into evidence at the University of Arizona Police Department station, reports stated.
Several males were seen beating a UA sorority's electrical box Tuesday night, reports stated.
Members of the Pi Beta Phi sorority, 1035 N. Mountain Ave., told police the men jumped out of a blue sport-utility vehicle and began beating the electrical box with an unknown object.
The men then ran up an exterior stairwell and knocked on a sorority member's door, reports stated.
The sorority member told police she couldn't identify any of the men, but believes they are in a fraternity, reports stated.
The electrical box was dented and scratched. There are no suspects, reports stated.
A man who police suspect is mentally ill was seen swinging a bottle of tequila around his head near a campus bus stop Tuesday morning, reports stated.
Police saw the 37-year-old man with the one-third-full bottle in his hand at North Campbell Avenue and East Speedway Boulevard.
He told police he was swinging the bottle in an attempt to defend himself against hate crimes. Police ran a background check on the man and told him to stop swinging the bottle, reports stated.
A UA employee found a discharged bullet early this week inside a campus pool filter, reports stated.
An employee told police he was checking a filter at the Corleone Apartments swimming pool, 1330 N. Park Ave., when he found the slug.
Officers believe the round either went into the drain, through the pool pipes and eventually ended up in the filter, or that someone placed the bullet in the filter, reports stated.
The employee said he usually finds leaves and miscellaneous debris in the filter. The bullet was placed into evidence at UAPD, reports stated.
Police arrested a Tucson man Wednesday after they received complaints about him being drunk and harassing women near campus, reports stated.
Officers spoke with the man at East Sixth Street and North Park Avenue. They ran a background check on him and learned he had a warrant issued for his arrest for drinking alcohol in public, reports stated.
The man was arrested and taken to Pima County Jail on suspicion of having a warrant, reports stated.
A UA fraternity member's room was broken into and ransacked, reports stated.
The student told police he left his Sigma Phi Epsilon room, 1420 N. Vine Ave., Dec. 22 and that another house member called him Jan. 24 to say that his room had been broken into.
The door to the room had been broken off, and his Playstation 2, computer and speakers were stolen, reports stated.
There are no suspects and no witnesses.
Police do not know who broke into a UA student's car, reports stated.
The student parked her car Monday near Corleone Apartments, 1330 N. Park Ave. When she returned Wednesday, her CD player was gone and her passenger side lock had been removed, reports stated.
The car didn't have an alarm. There are no suspects and no witnesses, reports stated.