Police Beat
Zach Thomas
Arizona Daily Wildcat
March 7, 1996
Police Beat
Zach Thomas
Arizona Daily Wildcat
March 7, 1996
University police responded to the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, 1011 N. Tyndall Ave., to assist an Arizona Department of Public Safety officer at a traffic stop where he was holding five men at gunpoint.UAPD officers arrived to find five men face down in a driveway, directly north of a "red Jimmy" with a Virginia license plate. Earlier that evening, DPS received a report of a stolen vehicle matching that description.
After the subjects were handcuffed, DPS dispatchers advised that the vehicle was not the one reported stolen. The five men were then released.
University police replaced a broken gate pin and lock Saturday on a gate leading to the Mount Graham International Observatory site, only to have the same gate and lock vandalized between then and Monday.
Between 3:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Monday, someone placed stickers and wrote "anti-telescope" slogans on the gate and a nearby road sign near milepost 136.4 of State Route 366. The gate's lock was also jammed with sticks, making it inoperable.
When the officer installed the new equipment Saturday, reports indicate he observed a red Ford van in a nearby parking lot. A license plate check revealed that the van's owner was a "known environmental activist."
The owner was not present, but the van's other occupants told officers he had "gone on a hike," police reports stated.
A University of Arizona employee at the Forbes building, 1140 E. South Campus Drive, called police Tuesday after someone stole three memory chips from his university-owned computer.
Between 6:30 p.m. Monday and 7:40 a.m. Tuesday, someone broke the west window of his first-floor office and dismantled the computer, taking three memory chips valued at $850.
Police reports indicate officers obtained two latent fingerprints from computer parts left at the scene as well as a footprint from a newspaper near the window.
The nearby office of the dean of the Department of Plant Pathology was also broken into, but because the dean is on sabbatical, police are not sure if anything was taken.
University police were called to McClelland Hall, 1130 N. Helen Ave., by a UA employee reporting two computer software burglaries from separate rooms earlier this week.
Between 9:30 p.m. Feb. 28 and 7:30 a.m. Feb. 29, someone stole a shrink-wrapped box containing Microsoft Windows NT version 3.51 software from a McClelland Hall room.
The missing software and several other identical boxes were stored in a room that can be entered by key or swipe card.
The employee who reported the crime said only select personnel, including administrators, custodians and police, have access to the room.
The following evening between 9:30 p.m. and 7:30 a.m., someone took a box containing Microsoft Office Pro version 7.0 for Windows 95 from another McClelland Hall room. That software is valued at $600.
A female employee called police Monday to report the theft of $45 dollars in cash from her office at the Arizona Cancer Center, 1515 N. Campbell Ave.
Between 4 and 4:10 p.m., someone entered her office and removed the cash from her wallet.
Three UA vehicles were vandalized and partially dismantled over the weekend at the Campus Agricultural Center, 1461 N. Campbell Ave.
Between 3:30 p.m. Friday and 7:34 a.m. Monday, someone removed the side door from one UA van and strewed the contents of its glove compartment about the area. The contents of two other vehicles' glove compartments were also scattered.
Police reports indicate officers took latent prints from the handle of a fire extinguisher vandals had removed from one of the vehicles.
University police responded to the Agricultural Center a second time Monday after a custodian reported finding vandalism in the men's restroom.
At 2 p.m. Monday, the custodian found what she described as a "yellow jelly" smeared on the walls, toilets, sink and floor of the restroom.
The restroom was unlocked all weekend and no suspicious people were seen in the area.
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