Police Beat

Another male student told police he and the man that allegedly hit him, Arthur Rodgers, 21, of the 3700 block of North First Avenue, were playing basketball on opposing teams about 4:32 p.m. The student said he was "talking trash," as he said other players also were doing. The student told police Rodgers told him to shut up and said Rodgers said he would "pop" him if he said another word. The student said he continued talking and Rodgers struck the student with a closed fist on the right side of his face.

Police reports stated a "red, swollen lump" was visible on the student's face. Rodgers told police he did punch the student, but only because the student threw a basketball at him aggressively.

A Rec Center employee told police the student had been "talking a lot of trash," but added that "that's no reason to hit someone."

Rodgers was cited on a charge of assault intentionally causing physical injury and was released after signing a promise to appear in court.

A female student reported obscene phone calls were made Sunday to her room at Coronado Residence Hall, 822 E. Fifth St.

The student told university police she received four calls between 3:20 a.m. and 3:35 a.m. She said the male caller identified himself as "Mike."

In the first call, he asked the student if she was alone. He then asked her to have phone sex with him, saying that another man had told him to call her.The student told police he then made some obscene remarks.

In the second and third calls, the caller begged the student to have phone sex, police reports stated.

In the fourth call, the student told the caller she did not want him to call back. The student told police she did not know who the caller was.

A male student was arrested on two charges Monday after university police saw his car enter the intersection of East Speedway Boulevard and North Campbell Avenue on a red light, police reports stated.

Police were driving southbound toward the intersection when they saw a Ford Explorer, facing east, stop in the intersection while the light was red at about 1:17 a.m.

When the light turned green, the Explorer made a U-turn and began driving west on Speedway, police reports stated. Police stopped the Explorer at McDonalds, 1711 E. Speedway Blvd.

Police spoke with the driver, Seth T. Rhea, 19, a resident of Babcock Residence Hall, 1717 E. Speedway Blvd., and noticed Rhea's eyes were "very red, watery and bloodshot," reports stated. Reports stated police also smelled a slight odor of alcohol in Rhea's breath.

Rhea told police he had not been drinking but told police they could check his eyes.

After performing eye tests on Rhea, police asked Rhea again if he had been drinking, and he told police he had a beer at his fraternity house. Rhea told police he did not think drinking a beer would affect him.

Rhea was arrested on a charge of minor operating a vehicle with liquor in the body. He was also cited on a charge of failure to stop at a red light.

Police took Rhea to police headquarters where he submitted to an Intoxilyzer test that showed his blood-alcohol content was .065 and .049. Rhea was released after signing a promise to appear in court.

A male student was arrested on two drug charges after the smell of burnt marijuana was reported Monday at Navajo-Pinal-Sierra Residence Hall, 1557 E. Sixth St. University police spoke with the student, Jamie M. Rice, 18, a resident of Navajo-Pinal-Sierra, about 11:25 a.m. Rice allowed police to enter his room, where police smelled burnt marijuana, reports stated.

Rice told police he smoked the last of his marijuana about 30 minutes before police arrived.

After a search of the room, police found a multicolored pipe with a burnt substance in it in a sunglass bag in a top desk drawer. Reports also stated that police found 3.2 grams of a "green leafy substance" in a magazine lying on a coffee table. Rice told police he had used the multicolored pipe to smoke before police arrived. Police also found a small brass pipe, a large brass pipe, a wooden pipe, another wooden pipe with a brass tip, rolling papers and pipe screens in the room, police reports stated. Police confiscated the seven items.

Rice was cited on charges of possession of marijuana and of drug paraphernalia and released at the scene.

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