Police Beat

Tom Collins
Arizona Daily Wildcat
September 12, 1996

A computer diskette containing pornographic material was found Tuesday at 8 a.m. in an office in the Shantz Building, 1200 E. South Campus Drive.
A female employee found the diskette when she arrived at work. When she turned on her computer, the screen indicated a "disk error;" she checked the disk drive and found the 3.5-inch diskette.
The office was locked Monday evening.
It was unclear whether someone had used the employee's computer to download the pornography, or if the diskette had been left to bother the employee. The employee said she did not feel harassed.
University police took fingerprints from the office, and turned them over to the Tucson Police Department for analysis.

A male caller reportedly harassed an employee in the Hispano/Chicano Resource Center, 1110 E. North Campus Drive.
The employee received a phone call Monday at 8:30 p.m. The caller said "Hey, puto," then trailed off into "undistinguishable" words, police reports stated.
The employee said he had received several phone calls where a caller would stay on the line, but not speak. The employee told university police that he did not feel threatened.
Police advised the employee to dial *69 the next time he received a call.

A motorcycle and a jeep nearly collided at North Mountain Avenue and East North Campus Drive.
Philip G. Boren, 22, of the 400 block of North Joesler Court, was riding his Honda motorcycle north on Mountain when a car allegedly cut him off. Jason F. Israel, 22, of Phoenix, was turning his 1996 Jeep east off Mountain into the Second Avenue Garage.
Boren lay his motorcycle down to avoid the accident. His motorcycle received a gouge to its right side and scratches on its tailpipe.
Boren was checked by the Tucson Fire Department and released at the scene.
Israel received a citation for failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident.

An 8-month-old infant was accidentally locked in a car Monday at 3:45 p.m. in the UA lot west of the Pi Beta Phi sorority, 1035 N. Mountain Ave.
The infant's baby sitter told police the infant had been locked in for five minutes when officers arrived. Police unlocked the car with a slim jim apparatus in two minutes.
The infant was unharmed and turned over to his baby sitter.

A license plate tag was discovered missing Monday from a car parked in the UA lot at East Fourth Street and North Tyndall Avenue.
A female student said she had noticed the white and green 1997 tag missing from her Arizona plate about 6:30 p.m., and had already contacted the Motor Vehicle Division of the Arizona Department of Transportation.

University police responded Tuesday to an alarm from the Museum of Art, 1031 N. Olive Road.
At 7:50 p.m., the alarm monitor indicated "trouble" in the museum's vault. Police found nothing disturbed in the vault, but did find the main museum entrance open. Police secured the door and searched the building. Nothing was found and the alarm was reset.

A bicycle was stolen from outside Coronado Residence Hall, 822 E. Fifth St.
A Coronado resident said he secured his bicycle with a U-lock to a rack on the east side of the building Monday at noon. He returned to the rack Tuesday at 10:30 p.m. to discover his bicycle frame and back tire missing. The U-lock and front tire remained locked to the rack, undisturbed.
The black Dyno 300 bicycle was valued at $200.

A wallet was taken Tuesday from a truck parked south of East Fourth Street at North Vine Avenue.
A female student said she parked her soft-topped 1995 Geo Tracker on the street at 4 p.m. She returned at 6:15 p.m. to discover a slit in the passenger side of the soft-top. A friend's wallet was missing from the unlocked glove compartment.
According to police reports, it appears a person slit the top and opened the truck's door.
The wallet was valued at $10 and contained an Arizona driver license and a debit card. The value of the damage was unknown.

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