A female cook working at the Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority house, 1071 N. Mountain Ave., told police April 18 that a male cook had tampered with her chili and had been harassing her since August 2003, reports stated.

When police arrived, the female cook told them a male cook who worked with her didn't like her and was trying to get her fired.

The female cook said the male cook often complained about her ability to cook.

The female cook said she had complained to her housemother about the male cook, but had been told not to say anything to the police or to her supervisors or she would get fired.

The female cook said the male cook had thrown water on her and another employee during an argument.

The female cook said the male cook frequently called her "a bitch," but would then say he was just kidding.

The female cook then told police she believed the other cook had recently tampered with her chili.

The female cook said that after eating the chili, her throat had started burning and she had not felt good.

The female cook said a cook at the Pi Beta Phi sorority house knew about the chili incident, reports stated.

Police talked to the cook at Pi Beta Phi, who said he had been warned by his supervisors not to talk to the male cook because he was a bad influence, reports stated.

The Pi Beta Phi cook said the male cook had asked to borrow cumin spice on the day of the chili incident and had said he was going to "fix her chili," reports stated.

The female cook then called and told police the male employee had shown up to work either drunk or high.

When police talked to the male cook, he smelled like alcohol, reports stated.

The male cook admitted to police that he was an alcoholic, but said he had not drunk in four months.

The male cook then admitted to police that he drank half a bottle of vodka the night before. The male cook said he and the female cook did not see eye to eye, but told police he had not messed with her chili.

Later that day, the housemother called police and told them she would handle her own employees, reports stated.

An unknown individual vandalized a construction site at the Optical Sciences building, 1630 E. University Blvd., early Wednesday morning, causing $2,000 of damage, reports stated.

When police arrived at the site, a construction worker told them he had come to work around 7 a.m. and noticed that several ladders had been moved around.

Police saw two windows with boarded plywood over them, and noted that it looked as if someone had pushed open the lower part of the plywood to get in, reports stated.

The construction worker told police it looked like the suspects had used a ladder to crawl up onto a walkway in the ceiling of the room. It looked like the suspects had then fallen through the ceiling, causing damage to the ceiling, an exit sign, a light and a smoke detector.

Police found two tennis shoe tracks on a board from the walkway. It looked like the tracks were from two different shoes, reports stated.

Police have no suspects or witnesses.

A man was arrested on charges of stealing credit cards Tuesday afternoon at the UA Main Library, 1510 E. University Blvd., after a library employee noticed the man was acting suspiciously, reports stated.

When police arrived, the employee told them she had seen the man pick up a book with no cover and not even read it. The employee said the man was also looking at people and wandering around.

Police found the man on a computer on the fourth floor.

When police asked the man for ID, they noticed the man had a credit card with a different name on it.

The man told police the credit card was his mother's and she worked for the UA.

Police were able to contact the woman who owned the credit card. She told police she didn't have any kids and she had reported the credit card stolen.

Police searched the man and found a syringe and a stack of credit cards and CatCards.

When police asked the man where he had gotten the cards, the man said, "I found some of the cards and some were given to me. I knew they were stolen," reports stated.

When police asked the man what he was going to do with the cards, he said, "I figured I could sell them."

The man then admitted to police that he had stolen ladders from people's homes and sold them to aluminum businesses.

When police asked the man what he was doing at the library, the man said he had been looking up Mexican heritage.

Police also found two keys on the man that were labeled UA property. The man told police he had found the keys, reports stated.

The man said he had not used the syringe in his pocket yet, but he had used crystal meth the night before.

The man was arrested on two counts of stolen property, 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.