Police Beat

Tom Collins
Arizona Daily Wildcat
September 24, 1996

A kiosk south of Social Sciences, 1145 E. South Campus Drive, was set ablaze Sunday.
A student parking his car just after midnight saw the fire and put it out with a bucket of water.
The kiosk was blackened, and several publicity fliers were destroyed. The cause of the fire was not determined.

University police responded twice this weekend to complaints about the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, 1801 E. First St.
Police were called Saturday at 6:30 p.m. when customers of a neighboring Burger King, 1005 N. Campbell Ave. complained of noise and people urinating off the roof of the house. Police found about 40 people on the roof.
The president of the fraternity told police he would clear the roof. He was told that the house could be cited if more complaints were received.
On Sunday at 6:24 a.m., police returned to the house after further complaints from the Burger King as well as the Taco Bell at 1818 E. Speedway Blvd. Restaurant employees reported people throwing cans off the roof.
When police arrived, one of the six people on the roof became "belligerent," complaining that police had no right to enter the house. Police informed the group that they must stay off the roof, and that any further violation would result in citations.
A copy of the police report was forwarded to the Dean of Students Office.

A large sum of money was taken from the office of the Corleone Apartments, 1330 N. Park Ave.
The hall director reported that he noticed the money missing from the cash box in the office Wednesday at 4 p.m. The cash box was stored unlocked under the desk in the office.
The box had been used to collect fees from residents. The fees allowed students to use the hall's vacuum cleaner, for example. Since Aug. 18, $660 had been collected.
The hall director said the office can be accessed by resident assistants, desk assistants and maintenance and custodial employees.

A female student was hit by a car Friday night in front of Coronado Residence Hall, 822 E. Fifth St.
The student said she was crossing Fifth Street at 9:20 p.m. when a car traveling west hit her, then turned north onto North Euclid Avenue. The car was not identified.
The Tucson Police Department arrived and took over the case. The student was taken to the University Medical Center with a foot injury and back pain.

A UA employee reported being assaulted Saturday by three juveniles at the Rincon Vista Track, 501 N. Plumer Ave.
The employee saw the three youths at 5:35 p.m. and told them they had to leave. They refused, and the employee called university police.
The employee told police the youths began to leave after he called police. As they walked away, one of the youths threw a small rock at the employee, hitting him in the back.
Police were unable to find the youths.

Police apprehended a would-be bicycle thief Saturday night outside the Memorial Student Union, 1303 E. University Blvd.
Two students called university police at 1:45 p.m. to report their bicycles had been stolen. They said they had left the bicycles unlocked in the scrub south of the building. By the time police arrived, the students had located their bicycles, which had been moved further back in the scrub and locked with a chain and padlock.
Police saw two juveniles sitting on a wall near the scrub. One of the youths had a chain with four padlock keys on it around his neck.
Police asked the youth, a 15-year-old Tucson boy, if he knew anything about the bicycles. He said no. Police asked the boy if his keys went to the padlock on the bicycles. He said no. Police asked him if they could try his keys. One of the keys opened the lock.
The other youth, a 13-year-old Tucson girl, told police the boy had locked and moved the bicycles.
The boy was arrested for theft by control and unsworn falsification. He was taken to the Pima County Juvenile Court Center.

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