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By Ty Young
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Monday September 15, 2003

A UA student was charged with criminal littering after a police officer saw him urinating while waiting in the drive-through line of the Jack in the Box on the southwest corner of North Park Avenue and East Speedway Boulevard, on Sept. 8, reports stated.

The shirtless man was in the passenger seat of a white pickup truck when the officer saw him get out and stand next to a bush. He watched the man unzip his pants and urinate into the bush, reports stated.

After the student was finished, the officer approached and questioned him. The man denied that he was urinating and that he was a passenger in the white pickup, reports stated.

As the officer was questioning the man, his friend who was driving the truck walked over and started talking to the cop. The officer told the driver to sit down on the curb, but he refused, reports stated.

According to reports, after the third attempt to tell the driver to sit on the curb, the man who had urinated in the bush told the driver, "My dad's a D.A. so I know how they are. They'll shoot you in the head if you don't sit down."

The man was charged with criminal littering and released at the scene.


A resident assistant at Babcock Residence Hall, 1717 E. Speedway, called police after she was concerned that a student had a very large knife in his room on Sept. 8, reports stated.

A UAPD officer met the student in question and asked if he had a knife. The student said he had a "Kabar style" knife in his room that was used to chop watermelons, reports stated.

The student was instructed to store the knife in his car until he could take it back home, reports stated


A woman was arrested for extreme DUI and possession of marijuana after police caught her driving 20 mph in a 40 mph zone, on Sept. 7, reports stated.

The officer saw the woman driving 20 mph below the speed limit and then observed her as she stopped in the middle of a crosswalk at an intersection, reports stated.

After she was stopped, the woman tried to get out of her car to address the officer. The cop ordered her to stay in the car. When he approached the woman, he saw an open can of Bud Light in the back seat.

During the field sobriety tests, the woman said she could not do the "walk and turn" test because of an ankle injury. The officer then asked her to do the "stand on one leg" test, which the woman failed immediately, reports stated.

When given a breathalyzer test, the woman blew a .183. During a search of the car, the officer found a bag of marijuana and a small pipe, reports stated.


A man was arrested for extreme DUI after he was stopped for driving 55 mph down East Speedway Boulevard on Sept. 7 at 11:57 p.m., reports stated.

After stopping the man, the officer asked him to do field sobriety tests. Because of the man's intoxication, the tests were stopped because the officer feared for the man's safety, reports stated.

The officer searched the man's car and found a half-empty 40 oz. bottle of Bud Light on the passenger side floor, reports stated.

The man was given a breathalyzer test and blew a .218, reports stated.


An escaped patient of Sonora Behavioral Health Hospital, 6050 N. Corona Road #3, was found at 3:44 a.m. on Sept. 6 after witnesses claimed he was breaking into a car, reports stated.

The man and his friend were seen in the Zone 1 lot at East Speedway Boulevard and North Cherry Avenue. A witness said that one of the men was trying to pry off a screen from the side of a camper, reports stated.

When the witnesses approached the men, they ran off. The witnesses called the UAPD immediately after, reports stated.

Police found one of the men matching the witnesses' description standing at a bus stop on East First Street and North Vine Avenue holding a can of beer. The man told the officer that he was waiting for his girlfriend to pick him up, reports stated.

After running his name through the police database, the officer learned that the man had left the psychiatric treatment center at Sonora Behavioral Health Hospital, reports stated.

The man was transported to Northwest Medical Center, 6200 N. La Cholla Blvd. The other man was not found and police took no action regarding the attempted car break in, reports stated.


An unknown student returned a wallet found in the Student Union Memorial Center, 1301 E. University Blvd., on Sept. 8, but did not turn in the $30 that was allegedly inside, reports stated.

A female UA student reported that she had left her wallet in either the computer room at the union or in the woman's restroom. The student later spoke to a desk clerk in the union who gave her the wallet after it had been turned in, reports stated.

The woman said the $30 that was inside had been taken, but everything else was still there. Police have no witnesses or suspects and the union lost and found does not keep a log of those who turn in found items, 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.

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