Police Beat

Tom Collins
Arizona Daily Wildcat
September 17, 1996

The Tucson Police Department Bomb Tech unit was called to Arizona Stadium Saturday after an unattended diaper bag left in section 102 was suspected to be a bomb.
The package was brought to the attention of university police during the football game against the University of Illinois.
Event staff at the game noticed the bag at 9:03 p.m. The area was cleared and the bomb squad was called to the stadium, 540 N. Vine Ave. The owner of the bag then returned to claim his diaper bag and other fans were allowed back to their seats.
At the same time, a smoke bomb was thrown into the stadium's northeast bleachers. A Tucson woman's toes were burned by the fireworks.

A chemical accident occurred Thursday at the University Medical Center loading dock, 1501 N. Campbell Ave.
A mover dropped a box of nitric acid on the dock at 3:57 p.m., causing a "cloud of toxic gas to form." The area was cleared, and the Tucson Fire Department's Hazardous Materials unit removed the acid.
The acid was being moved from the College of Medicine to The Bio-Temp labs, 1609 N. Warren Ave. Several employees in the area were taken to UMC's emergency room complaining of nausea, burning eyes and chest pains.

An alleged bicycle thief was apprehended by university police Thursday at 10:23 p.m. after a chase south of campus.
Police were called to the Navajo-Pinal-Sierra Residence Hall, 1557 E. Sixth St., after a resident said she witnessed a man stealing a bicycle.
Police followed the man, Rick L. Graviett, 32, of the 6000 block of South Vereda de las Castitas, as he crossed East Sixth Street on a bicycle and rode south on North Cherry Avenue. He turned east down an alley south of Sixth, then south on North Warren Avenue. As he turned south, he dropped a green bag.
Police finally stopped Graviett on East Seventh Street and found a black butterfly knife in his back pocket, as well as a wire cutter, a wire stripper and a small wrench in his front pockets.
Graviett admitted stealing the bicycle he was on, police reports stated. A bolt cutter and a bicycle seat were found in the green bag. Graviett told police the cutters belonged to a friend and said that friend had stolen the seat.
Graviett told police he intended to sell the bicycle to cover a bad check. Graviett was taken to Pima County Jail and charged with two counts of theft, one count of conspiracy to commit theft and one count of carrying a concealed weapon.
The next day, university police tracked Graviett's friend down at an apartment complex south of campus. The friend said he had been with his girlfriend all night and told police he knew nothing about bicycle thefts at the UA. He was photographed and released.
The case was forwarded to the Pima County Attorney's office.

A series of harassing telephone calls were reportedly made over a period of three weeks to a room in La Paz Residence Hall, 602 N. Highland Ave.
A female student said she and her roommate began receiving the calls Aug. 27. They had last received a call Friday at 8 a.m.
The caller calls himself "Andre" and "talks about books and going to the bookstore," police reports stated.
The student said they had attempted to trace the calls but were unsuccessful.

A license plate was stolen Sunday from a student's car parked north of Coronado Residence Hall, 822 E. Fifth St.
The student's California plate was removed from his 1992 Honda Accord and replaced with an Arizona plate. A computer check showed the Arizona plate belonged to a 1991 Honda Accord.
The student told police he noticed the switch at 7:30 p.m.
Police dusted the rear bumper and license plate for fingerprints and put out an advisory for the California plate.
The Department of Public Safety later reported the plate had been on a car involved in a roll-over accident on Interstate 19 that same day.

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