Police Beat

Zach Thomas
Arizona Daily Wildcat
October 15, 1996

Over $4,000 worth of computer equipment was stolen from Physics and Atmospheric Sciences Room 180A between 11 p.m. Thursday and 7:45 a.m. Friday.
According to police reports, a university employee in PAS, 1118 E. Fourth St., called university police after finding the room's door taken off its hinges and a high-powered computer missing from the desktop.
The only apparent damage to the room included pry marks around the door hinges, police reports stated. Officers also lifted 10 latent fingerprints from the scene.
Missing were a $1219 Seagate hard drive, a $750 MAG DX15F-1 monitor, a $656 Diamond Stealth video card, $750 of SCSI equipment, a $825 Pentium motherboard and processor, and a $30 floppy disk drive.

University police arrested one student and two Tucson men for minor in possession of alcohol and other charges over the weekend.
Employees of the Texaco service station, 501 N. Park Ave., called police Sunday at 12:12 a.m. regarding a man creating a disturbance, police reports stated.
Officers arrived to find Christopher J. Possert, 18, of the 5900 block of North Eileen Place, drunk and reportedly verbally harassing customers.
Possert, whom officers described as drunk, called the lady behind the counter a "bitch" before police handcuffed him.
Police reports stated Possert then began yelling "sexually explicit profanities directed toward my mother, wife, other officers present and the store clerk."
When asked for his social security number, Possert said, "1-900-fuck-you."
University police transported Possert to Pima County Jail where he was booked.
In a separate incident, Brandon M. McCleskey, 18, a resident of Arizona-Sonora Hall, and Terry L. Nichols, 22, of the 1200 block of South Avenida Sido, were arrested west of the hall Saturday at 11:54 p.m., after patrolling officers spied the two carrying bottles of Corona beer.
According to police reports, Nichols had four outstanding warrants for failure to appear on theft, minor in possession of alcohol and shoplifting charges. He was transported and booked into Pima County Jail.
McCleskey was cited for minor in possession of alcohol and released at the scene.

Two petty larcenies were reported over the weekend.
The friend of a resident of Apache-Santa Cruz Residence Hall, 1440 E. Fifth St., reported Saturday the theft of his $400 Sony Discman from the resident's room, police reports stated.
The two reportedly left the Discman in the room Friday at 9:45 p.m. and returned Saturday at 12:45 a.m. to find it missing.
The resident reportedly suspects his roommate, who was in the room when they left.
Officers had not yet contacted the roommate.
In a separate case, a female student reported that her Motorola Fliptop cellular phone was stolen from her backpack Friday in the Center For Creative Photography, 1030 N. Olive Road.
The student said she was not sure when the $350 phone was taken but has already notified Airtouch Cellular service of the theft.

A male resident of Graham-Greenlee Residence Hall, 610 N. Highland Ave., called police about annoying, anonymous phone calls he reportedly has received since early September.
According to police reports, a male caller would phone and ask if "Rob" was there. After the resident answered "no," the caller would phone again, asking the same question.
The resident told police the calls have increased in frequency during the past month and have of late included multiple people laughing in the background.
The resident traced the calls, and the police investigation is ongoing.

An employee at University Medical Center, 1145 N. Campbell Ave., called police Friday after she found a trash fire as she returned from lunch.
A co-worker extinguished the blaze at 1:15 p.m. before officers arrived. The fire's cause is unknown.

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