Police Beat

Police were at the McDonalds' registers when they smelled the odor of marijuana about 7:17 a.m., police reports stated. Two officers looked around to find the smell's origin and found it to be coming from an area at the counter where four men were standing.

Police approached the men, leaned over one of them to reach an item on the counter and noticed the smell was "very strong" around the men, police reports stated.

Police asked one of the men, Paul Asher, a resident of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house, 1801 E. First St., if he had been smoking marijuana. Asher told police he had but did not have any on him.

Police then spoke with another man, Chris J. Cohn, 18, of the 1200 block of North Park Avenue.

Cohn told police he did smoke marijuana and said he, Asher and one of the other men, Christopher F. Kerr, 21, of the 100 block of North Fergeus, had just smoked it at the Phi Gamma Delta house.

Cohn took police to the fraternity house and showed officers a large room in the basement that was still filled with smoke from burnt marijuana, according to police reports. Reports stated that police found an unused hand-rolled cigarette in plain view on the floor.

Police also found several partial cigarettes on the floor, in cups and on the furniture, police reports stated. Reports stated police found one fully rolled cigarette and 11 partial cigarettes.

Cohn, Asher and Kerr were cited on charges for unlawful possession of marijuana based on the odor of marijuana on the men, their admissions of having smoked marijuana, their statements that they were all in the room in which the marijuana was located and the fact that Cohn pointed the room out, police reports stated.

Cohn, who had already participated in the Dean of Students' diversion program, was cited and released. Asher and Kerr were cited and referred to the diversion program.

The fourth man was not cited.

A Tucson man was arrested on numerous charges after university police stopped him because his truck was following a male student's car Sunday near La Paz Residence Hall, 602 N. Highland Ave.

Two male students told police they were at East Grant Road near North Alvernon Way about 3:30 a.m. when people in a 1992 Toyota truck started yelling at them and asking them to race.

The students, in a 1993 Nissan Altima, told police the 1992 Toyota truck tailgated them every few seconds. On two occasions, the students pulled off the roadway, but the truck continued to follow them, they said.

The students told police they stopped at the intersection of Grant Road and North Campbell Avenue, and the truck's passengers continued to yell at them. A passenger in the truck threw a beer can at the rear window of their car, the students said.

The students went to university police headquarters with the truck following them the entire way, police reports stated.

One of the students told police that the truck stopped in front of the headquarters, and two passengers jumped out and started to run east.

Police stopped the truck near La Paz, and both students identified the driver, Nathan A. Wooley, 20, of the 4900 block of East Fairmount Avenue.

While trying to stop Wooley, police followed his truck into an alley where he drove the wrong way down the one-way alley, police reports stated.

Police also noticed a strong odor of alcohol coming from Wooley's mouth, reports stated. After field sobriety tests, Wooley was arrested on charges of DUI and minor operating a vehicle with alcohol in the body.

Police parked the truck and found three unopened beer cans and an empty case of beer behind the seats, police reports stated.

Wooley told police he followed the students' car but said he did not yell anything. The students told police they felt threatened by the actions of the truck's occupants and wanted to press charges. He was also cited on charges of threatening and intimidating, driving the wrong way on a one-way street and DUI with a blood-alcohol content of .10 or more.

Wooley was taken to Pima County Jail where he was released by pre-trial services.

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