Police Beat

Tom Collins
Arizona Daily Wildcat
August 22, 1996

University police were called to Coronado Residence Hall, 822 E. Fifth St., twice early Tuesday morning, in response to separate reports of marijuana use.
Police responded at 12:55 a.m. after a resident assistant reported seeing several cans of beer and smelling a slight odor of marijuana in a room.
Police observed a brass marijuana bong on a dresser in the room. One of the residents told police he owned the bong, but said he had not used it. Police found residue in the apparatus.
The resident was recommended to the Dean of Students Office diversion program.
Another resident assistant later reported smelling burned marijuana outside another room.
Police arrived at 1:13 a.m. and smelled burned marijuana coming from the room. They noticed a bath towel shoved in the crack at the bottom of the door. They knocked several times, but received no response.
Police, a hall director and the resident assistant then heard a toilet flush inside the room.
The officers opened the door with a master key, and found no one in the room or the bathroom adjacent to it.
The window of the room was open, and a fan was blowing air out the window.
Police reports stated the officers found a plastic bag containing "what appeared to be a usable quantity of marijuana" on a shelf.
A resident of the room arrived and told police he knew nothing about the bag and that it was on his roommate's side of the room.
After police left, the roommate arrived. Police then returned.
The roommate would not answer questions and requested a lawyer.
The hall director and resident assistant told police the roommate had admitted to owning the bag before officers returned.
The case remains open and is under investigation.

A report of burning marijuana brought university police to Apache-Santa Cruz Residence Hall, 1420 E. Fifth St., Monday at about 9 p.m.
A resident of the hall, Matthew D. Rosen, 18, admitted to smoking earlier that day and said he did not know it was "such a big deal."
Rosen took police to his car, where he kept a metal pipe with several extensions, a wooden smoking pipe, and a film canister containing .2 grams of marijuana residue.
Rosen was cited for possession of drug paraphernalia and was also recommended to the Dean of Students Office diversion program.

A university truck was damaged over the weekend.
A UA employee told police he parked the truck in the lot at East Fourth Street and North Highland Avenue Aug. 15. When he returned Monday at 8:35 a.m., he found damage to the rear bumper of the vehicle.
University police valued the damaged at under $1,000. No evidence was found.

A purse shaped like a small backpack was taken from Apache-Santa Cruz Residence Hall, 1420 E. Fifth St.
A female resident told police she left the bag in a room in the hall at 11:30 p.m. Monday. When she returned Tuesday at 7:30 a.m., the bag was missing. The room had been left unsecured.
The $10 bag contained $50 cash, a debit card, a driver license and a pair of gold reading glasses.

A bicycle was stolen Monday from the west side of the Student Recreation Center, 1400 E. Sixth St.
A male student told police he locked the bicycle with a chain lock at 7:30 a.m., and returned at 3 p.m. to discover the bicycle and lock missing.
The Rally mountain bicycle was valued at $300.

A university police officer on patrol near the Main Library, 1510 E. University Blvd., Tuesday at 1:17 p.m., found a U-lock resting on top of a bicycle rack.
The U-lock was taken to found property. Its value was unknown.

A bicycle was found in the basement of the Marley Building, 1145 E. Fourth St., Tuesday.
The ten-speed Nishiki bicycle was taken to Parking and Transportation Services for safekeeping.

A six-pack of soda was reported stolen from the Education building, 1430 E. Second St., Tuesday.
An education professor told university police she put the six pack of Diet 7Up in a refrigerator Aug. 1. The 7Up was discovered missing Tuesday.
The professor told police that food has been stolen from the refrigerator throughout the last year.
Police found no evidence of theft. The 7Up was valued at $1.50.

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