Police Beat

Tom Collins
Arizona Daily Wildcat
September 13, 1996

A Tucson man reportedly stole his ex-girlfriend's room key and All Aboard card Wednesday night from La Paz Residence Hall, 602 N. Highland Ave.
The ex-girlfriend, a La Paz resident, told university police the man came to the hall at 9 p.m. to retrieve some of his property. She brought the items to him, but would not allow him into the room. As the man left, he grabbed her key and the card.
The resident told police she was not threatened, nor was her room damaged.
Police spoke to the resident's father later in the evening. He told police his daughter was "terrified" of the man and that she had not wanted to involve police. The father told police the resident's lock will be changed and she will deadbolt her door at night.
The man's aunt told police that her nephew had been placed into Kino Hospital Sept. 6, after he assaulted her daughter. The aunt told police the man has a "very serious mental problem and can be very violent."
She told police the man was released Wednesday from the hospital on a promise to seek mental health help.
The resident's All Aboard card was valued at $700.

University police responded to a report of three suspicious youths Wednesday afternoon in the Student Union, 1303 E. University Blvd.
Reports indicate that the three were observed placing items into a backpack outside the Union, then walking in. The backpack was making a clanging noise.
At 4:26 p.m., police approached the youths in the Sam's Place games room.
The youth holding the bag took a 6-inch crescent wrench from it. He said he found the wrench and that he collected them. The three youths gave their names to the responding officer and all said they attended Mansfeld Middle School, 1300 E. Sixth St.
As the youths left, the officer noticed three allen wrenchs under the bench they had been sitting on. He attempted to contact the three to ask them why they had hidden the other wrenches, but two of them had given false phone numbers and addresses.
One of the youths gave the officer his real name and was tracked down through the Pima County Juvenile Detention Center.
Police found the boy at his home and cited him for giving them false information about the wrenches to law enforcement. He was left with his mother.

A Visa credit card was taken Wednesday from the Memorial Student Union, 1303 E. University Blvd.
A female student said she was outside the Union to return books and that she had the card out to use as identification. The student switched from one line to another when she apparently dropped the card, according to police reports. She said she thinks someone then took it.

A check was turned in Wednesday to university police.
The Washington Mutual Bank check was made out for $500. Police made no attempt to contact the recipient out of fear of contacting the wrong person by the same name.
The check was placed into property.

A bicycle was stolen Wednesday from outside Old Chemistry, 1306 E. University Blvd.
A female student said she used a U-lock to secure her bicycle to a rack on the north side of the building at 11:50 a.m. When she returned from class at 12:55 p.m., the bicycle's frame, back tire and U-lock were gone. The front tire of the bicycle was left.
The student told university police that she thought she had locked the tire and U-lock to the rack.
The Trek 930 mountain bicycle was valued at $560, the U-lock at $35.

University police served a warrant Wednesday on a Tucson man already being held at Pima County Jail.
John A. Higdon, 64, of the 3400 block of East Bellevue Street, was brought out to Pima County Jail booking and arrested on a charge of failure to appear on a previous charge of unlawful acts with alcohol.
Higdon was then returned to his cell.

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