Police Beat
Zach Thomas
Arizona Daily Wildcat
March 5, 1996
Police Beat
Zach Thomas
Arizona Daily Wildcat
March 5, 1996
A UA student arrested Friday evening on charges of misrepresenting his age to obtain alcohol positively identified the leader of a fake identification ring on campus.Scott A. Golman, 20, a resident of Coronado Hall, 822 E. Fifth St., was arrested at 9:45 p.m. outside a party at Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, 1011 N. Tyndall Ave., after security officers confronted him about his Florida driver's license.
The security officers referred the questionable license to police. Golman later admitted the card was false and said he obtained it earlier this semester from a resident of Arizona-Sonora Hall, 910 E. Fifth St., who was arrested in a Feb. 20 police sting operation in connection with the production and sale of fake ID cards.
Police reports state Golman said he knew the identity of another involved in the fake ID ring who has not yet been implicated in the case. Police would not release the suspect's name until they had investigated further.
Golman said he met "the main guy" in a room at Arizona-Sonora last December. Golman later identified the suspect's picture on a photocopy of false ID cards confiscated during the February raid on the Arizona-Sonora resident's room.
University police are investigating the connection.
University police arrested two UA students on drug charges over the weekend.
Daniel R. Peter, 19, a resident of Manzanita-Mohave Hall, 1000 N. Park Ave., was arrested for unlawful possession of marijuana at 2:22 a.m. Sunday after a resident assistant called police due to a disturbance.
Officers arrived at Peter's room to find multiple beer bottles, a bottle of tequila, and marijuana paraphernalia in the room. Along with Peter, the room contained four other occupants.
Police confiscated multiple homemade and store-bought pipes and a baggie containing a "dry, green, leafy substance."
Peter claimed all responsibility for the drugs, so the rest of the group was allowed to leave.
The confiscated items were placed into evidence and Peter was cited and released.
In an unrelated incident, Jason R. Harvey, 20, a resident of Coronado Residence Hall, 822 E. Fifth St., was arrested for possession of marijuana paraphernalia Saturday after police pulled him over for running a stop sign at East Sixth Street and North Park Avenue.
Police noticed a strong odor of marijuana inside a "Graffix" box, which contained a water bong with burnt marijuana residue in the stem.
Harvey was cited and released and the water bong was placed into evidence.
Six students and one Tucson man were arrested over the weekend for DUI and related charges.
Jason S. Tobias, 21, of the 2900 block of East Fort Lowell Road, was arrested on charges of driving under the influence of drugs at 8:02 p.m. Friday after police stopped the car he was driving at East Sixth Street and North Cherry Avenue.
Officers also arrested the four passengers in the car. Scott C. Eisenberg, 20, of the 1200 block of East River Road; Benjamin P. Kaplan, 21, and Jeffery P. Castro, 24, both of the 3200 block of East Linden; and William T. Zukerman, 21, of the 200 block of North Granada Avenue, were all cited for unlawful possession of marijuana.
All five men were cited and released.
In a separate incident, David T. Wilner, 21, of the 900 block of North Euclid Avenue, was arrested on charges of DUI and DUI with a blood alcohol content above .10.
Wilner was stopped at East Sixth Street and North Park Avenue at 1:01 a.m. Friday for running a stop sign.
He later failed field sobriety tests and registered a BAC of .123 on the Intoxilyzer. He was cited and released.
In an unrelated occurrence, university police arrested Bryan Rambo, 31, of the 4800 block of East Cecilia, on charges of DUI and DUI with a BAC above .10.
Police reports indicate Rambo slammed on his brakes and came to a complete stop at two consecutive intersections showing a green light. The officer following Rambo's vehicle narrowly avoided a collision in both instances.
Rambo failed field sobriety tests and later registered a .213 on the Intoxilyzer.
He was cited an released to a friend.
Police Beat is compiled from official University of Arizona Police Department reports.
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