Police Beat


By Holly Wells
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Monday, January 23, 2006

A student broke a $175 refrigerator Jan. 15 in his dorm room in Coronado Residence Hall, 822 E. Fifth St., during a talk with a UA employee, reports stated.

When police arrived around 1 a.m., the employee said he had heard loud banging coming from the student's room. The employee told police he had knocked on the student's door but said no one had answered.

Police knocked and the student opened the door, reports stated.

The employee was administratively dealing with the student when the student started yelling and kicking the furniture, reports stated.

The student had kicked the door on the refrigerator, causing the door to bend. The door to the refrigerator would no longer close.

The student was uncooperative and refused to talk to police.

The student was cited for criminal damage and released, reports stated.


Two mailboxes were found on a pole Tuesday night in a ditch on the side of the Student Recreation Center, 1400 N. Highland Ave., reports stated.

A student found the mailboxes around 5 p.m. and called police.

There was a piece of mail in one of the mailboxes. Police contacted the woman who the mail was addressed to.

The woman said the mailboxes had been reported missing to the Tucson Police Department and told police to call the man who reported the theft.

Police called the man who said he had reported the mailboxes stolen on Jan. 13. The man said he wanted the mailboxes back.

Police have no suspects or witnesses, reports stated.


A glass window in the Alpha Delta Pi fraternity, 1443 E. First St., was broken sometime before the morning of Jan. 16, reports stated.

A man was going to a construction site around 10 a.m. when he noticed the window and called police.

Police saw a bottle of Jagermeister had been thrown through the living room window of the fraternity. There was glass all over the living room.

General management was called to repair the window.

Police have no suspects or witnesses, reports stated.


A student's $247 blue and silver bike was stolen sometime between Jan. 10 and Jan. 16 from Coronado Residence Hall, 822 E. Fifth St., reports stated.

The student told police she locked her bike with a cable lock around noon on Jan. 10 and said she noticed her bike was missing around 4:30 p.m. on Jan. 16.

Police have no suspects or witnesses, reports stated.


A man was cited for criminal trespassing the night of Jan. 16 after he was found in the Music building, 1017 E. Olive Road, reports stated.

Police arrived around 8 p.m. and did a records check on the man.

The man had been warned several times in the past for trespassing.

The man was released and told not to return, reports stated.


A student was cited for underage drinking the night of Jan. 14 after police saw him riding a bike with no lights on it on North Mountain Avenue and East Speedway Boulevard, reports stated.

The student was wearing dark clothing and when police approached him he smelled like alcohol.

Police asked the student if he had been drinking and the student said he had drunk a little with some friends at a formal gathering.

The student was also cited for having no bike lamps and released.

He called a friend to pick him up, reports stated.


A student's $2,000 laptop was stolen Jan. 16 from her room in Skyview Apartments, 1050 E. Eighth St., reports stated.

The student said she was in another room and had left her door unlocked around 1 p.m. The student said she went back to her room a little while later to find the laptop gone.

Nothing else was taken from the student's room.

Police have no suspects or witnesses, reports stated.


Police Beat is compiled from official University of Arizona Police Department Records. For a complete list of UAPD activity, the daily resumé can be found at www.uapd.arizona.edu.