Police Beat

Tom Collins
Arizona Daily Wildcat
September 27, 1996

A female resident reported receiving a strange phone call Tuesday at Babcock Inn Residence Hall, 1717 E. Speedway Blvd.
The resident told university police a male called her at 11 p.m. and said he was taking a survey on sex. The student refused to take the survey and hung up the telephone.
She talked to another female resident in the hall who said she had had a similar experience.
The second resident told police she received a call Sept. 5 at 10 p.m. The male caller told her he was "really professional" and wanted to ask her questions about sex. The resident answered questions about her first sexual experience and when her last sexual experience had occurred.
The resident told police she thought the questions were very personal, but she did not feel threatened. She did not call police because she did not think the call was "a big deal," though she did feel "violated."
Police told the resident to call the police if a similar event occurred.

Two residents reported receiving harassing telephone calls Thursday in Manzanita-Mohave Residence Hall, 1000 N. Park Ave.
A female resident told police she received a call between 10 and 10:10 p.m. from a male caller named Dave. Dave told the resident he was randomly dialing the phone and masturbating as they spoke. He asked the resident if he could call her again. She said no and hung up the phone.
Another female resident said she received a call at 11:10 p.m. from a man named Steve.
Steve asked the resident if she would talk to him. He was breathing heavily.
"Hang on, I'm almost there," Steve said to the resident. The resident said in a police report that she thought the man was masturbating.
The number was obtained through the last caller function on the telephone. The case remains open.

A 5-year-old girl was found alone Wednesday on the northeast corner of North Euclid Avenue and East Fourth Street.
A Tucson woman reported the girl standing on the corner about 3 p.m.
The girl was taken to UAPD headquarters, where the girl and the woman were picked up by the Tucson Police Department, which took over the case. The woman stayed with the girl.

A backpack was taken Wednesday from an office in the Harshbarger Building, 1133 E. North Campus Drive.
A female employee left her backpack in her office when she left at 9:15 a.m. She returned at 9:45 p.m. to discover the pack missing.
The employee left her office door open and the backpack on her desk in full view of the door. She said her office was near a computer center and students continually passed her door.
The green backpack contained $2 cash, two credit cards, a pair of sunglasses, keys and an address book. The values of the backpack, sunglasses and address book were unknown.

Several hundred dollars worth of tools were taken Wednesday from outside Old Chemistry, 1306 E. University Blvd.
A contractor said he left his tools in a toolbox in the back of his truck at 6:30 a.m. The man discovered the toolbox missing at 6:55 a.m.
The Rubbermaid toolbox and the tools weighed 60 pounds. The contractor estimated the value at $300.

University police apprehended three alleged car thieves Wednesday.
Police saw a red Jeep Cherokee pulled over at North Mountain Avenue and East Glenn Street. Three youths and one adult exited the Jeep and ran west.
A computer check showed the Jeep was stolen.
Police caught two of the youths and the adult at North Park Avenue and East Copper Street. The third youth was not apprehended by university police, but Tucson Police Department officers did pursue the youth.
The two youths and Jesus Miguel Garcia, 18, of the 2000 block of South Mission Road, were cited for auto theft.
The case was turned over to university police detectives.

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