Police Beat

The student told university police that about 11:30 a.m. he and the man were using a restroom.

The student told police he washed up and was going back to his room when the man hit the student in the face and head about 10 to 12 times. The student covered himself up with his arms, and the man fled.

After recovering, the student noticed he had a message on his answering machine.

The message said, "It was about time you got your ass kicked. You deserved it for the way you treat women. You abuse them, and it's about time you got your ass kicked."

The student told police he did not recognize the voice on the answering machine. Police asked the student for the message tape, but the student told police he wanted to keep it since he did not know who assaulted him.

The student told police he has not had any problems with women except when he was moved to the hall after a dispute with a girlfriend. He told police he did not believe the assault and the dispute are related.

The student told police he can identify the man, but he has never seen him in the hall.

The man was described as an 18- to 19-year-old Caucasian about 5-foot-8-inches tall, and weighing about 160 pounds. The man also had a shaved, bald head.

Police reports stated that the student had a bruised and cut lip and a small cut on his chin. The student told police he did not need medical assistance.

A male student was cited on a charge of criminal damage Sunday after a resident assistant reported graffiti at Manzanita-Mohave Residence Hall, 1000 N. Park Ave.

The RA told university police he noticed posters and signs knocked off the walls on all of the hall's Manzanita-side hallways about 6 a.m. The RA also said he found graffiti written on walls in a stairwell, elevator and bathroom.

The graffiti was written with blue marker and said "you all suck, fuck you, ManziMo sucks, 666," police reports stated. The RA's message board on his door also had "you suck" written on it in blue marker.

The RA told police he checked the hallways and found a student, Charles C. Spina, 18, a resident of Manzanita-Mohave Residence Hall, on the fifth floor holding a blue marker in his hand.

Spina told the RA he did not mark the walls or remove the posters and signs, and Spina gave the marker to the RA when the RA asked for it, police reports stated.

Police met with Spina in his room that afternoon, and Spina told police he did not know anything about the graffiti.

When police asked him why he was on the fifth floor that morning, Spina said he had woken up, was a "little drunk," and was looking for his friend on the fourth floor, not the fifth floor, police reports stated.

Spina told police he found the blue marker in the stairwell between floors. He said the damage was already there when he was walking around.

Police asked where Spina's friend lived, and he said the fourth floor of the Mohave side, police reports stated. The RA told police Spina had told him that his friend lived on the fourth floor of Manzanita.

Police checked Spina's desk to find any markers like the blue marker, but they instead found anthropology papers with Spina's handwriting.

Police compared the handwriting on the anthropology papers with the graffiti on the wall and found that some of the letters matched, police reports stated. Police took photographs of the graffiti as evidence.

Spina was cited and released at the scene.

University police responded to two calls of bees nesting on campus Friday.

Police first responded to the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering building, 1130 N. Mountain Ave., about 2:25 p.m. to a report of bees nesting in the wheel well of a 1996 Chevrolet pickup.

In the second case, police responded to South Hall, 1042 E. South Campus Drive, after reports of a "swarm of bees."

Police met with Grounds and Labor employees who told police they called a beekeeper.

BeeMaster Inc. removed the bees in both cases.

Police Beat is compiled from official University of Arizona Police Department reports.