Police Beat

Tom Collins
Arizona Daily Wildcat
August 23, 1996

Numerous items were taken Sunday from a Phoenix area basketball team's van as they played in a tournament on the UA campus.
The van was parked in the Second Street Garage, 1340 E. Second St., the team's coach told university police.
As the team played, the coach saw one of his players and a player from another team leave Bear Down Gymnasium.
When the coach asked where they had gone, the youths informed him they had gone to a sorority.
The team returned to the van at 5 p.m. and found the back door open.
As the team drove home, they discovered several items missing from their gym bags, according to police reports.
A parent of one of the team members told the coach he had seen the two youths going through the gym bags of the team.
One of the youths admitted to being in the garage, but said he was there because "a friend of his had gotten a ticket," according to police reports. He denied any knowledge of the missing items.
Both youths are students at Carl Hayden High School in Phoenix.
A Kenwood portable compact disc player, a Sony portable CD player, a Sony Walkman, a Nintendo Game Boy, 30 CDs and five Game Boy cartridges were taken. The value of the items was not known, however $200 in cash was also taken from the van.
The case was referred to UAPD detectives.

A wheelchair ramp was removed from a house at 1834 E. Mabel St.
A Tucson man had left the portable ramp outside the house Friday, Aug. 16, and when he returned Monday at 8 a.m., the ramp was missing.
The ramp is not usually left outside, the man told university police.
The wooden ramp is painted white and weighs about 20 pounds. It is 4 inches high, 3 feet wide, and 3 feet long.

A purse was taken Tuesday from a room in the Arizona Health Sciences Center, 1501 N. Campbell Ave.
A female employee of the College of Medicine left the clutch-style purse in a larger bag in her office. She discovered the purse missing at noon after leaving the office several times during the morning.
The employee told university police she had seen a 5-foot-tall, blonde woman around the office that morning. She told police she had not seen the woman before.
The black purse, valued at $20, contained a driver license, a UA room privilege card, a voter identification card, an insurance card, several credit and debit cards, and $20 cash. It also held a black and maroon business card holder valued at $10.

A woman's watch was found Wednesday at about 7:15 p.m. in the Psychology building, 1503 E. University Blvd.
The gold-tone Elgin watch was placed into found property.
The value of the watch was unknown.

A stolen truck was discovered Wednesday by university police.
An officer found the silver Chevrolet truck unattended at 8:47 p.m. on East Mabel Street, east of North Mountain Avenue.
The truck was left two feet from the curb and had damage to the steering column. A computer check on the truck indicated it had been stolen.
The case was turned over to the Tucson Police Department.

Between $5 and $15 in U.S. change was removed from a car parked in the Second Street Garage, 1340 E. Second St.
An employee parked his car on the third level of the garage Thursday, Aug. 15, at 5:30 p.m., and returned Friday at 7:27 a.m. to find that the driver's side window had been smashed. Nothing else was taken.

A gray, Marin mountain bicycle, valued at $325, was stolen Monday from the south side of the Administration building, 1401 E. University Blvd.
A male student said he locked the bicycle to a rack using a U-lock at 10 a.m. When he returned at 11 a.m., the bicycle was gone, but his helmet and U-lock remained as he left them.
The student told police he may have failed to lock the bicycle properly.
Police Beat is compiled from official University of Arizona Police Department reports.