Police Beat

Tom Collins
Arizona Daily Wildcat
October 16, 1996

Two men duped a male student out of nearly $300 Friday.
University police responded to the Circle K at 977 E. Speedway Blvd. where the student told them he had just been robbed at gunpoint by two men.
As police started to radio in descriptions of the men, the student changed his story.
The student then told police he was using the automatic teller machine at the First Interstate Bank, 1701 E. Speedway Blvd., at 11 a.m. when an African American man in a gray suit asked him for ride.
The student and the man then drove to the Circle K where a second man approached. As the three talked, the student told police, the issue of race relations came up. The three discussed whether African Americans and Caucasians trust each other.
As a test of his trust, the student told police, one of the men gave him $200 and asked him to drive around the block and return the money. The student did as he was asked.
When the student returned, the men asked him to do the same.
The student gave the men $276, and they walked west on East Speedway Boulevard. They did not return.
Police checked the area, but could not find the men.
The student was referred to the Tucson Police Department.

A female student needing entry to the Art building, 1031 N. Olive Road, was warned for disorderly conduct Saturday.
University police responded at 12:30 p.m. to a 911 call about a student demanding entry to a room in the building to work on an art project. She was told that students who are not room monitors are not allowed into the building's rooms after 12:30 p.m.
The student argued with a female student who was monitoring the building, and police escorted the first student from the building.
Police found the first student "very emotional and disturbed about what had happened." She told police she had a project due the next Thursday.
At 1:38 p.m., police returned to the building when the same student tried again to gain entry.
An instructor was called to explain the rules to the student. Police told the student if they returned to the building for the same reason, she would be arrested for disorderly conduct.
The building monitor and witnesses told police the student is on medication and has a history of similar episodes.

A strange and apparently misdirected note was left Saturday on a car parked in the UA lot at East Second Street and North Cherry Avenue.
A UA employee parked her 1991 Honda Accord in the lot at 1 p.m. When she returned at 4:40 p.m., she found a note written on the back of a business card.
"You stupid fuck, next time you hit someone's car, have enough guts to put your number on the car. I have your license number," the note read. It was signed "the owner of the silver van."
Police found no sign of damage to the Honda, and there was no silver van at the scene.

Police responded Saturday at about 7 p.m. to a report of an argument near Coronado Residence Hall, 822 E. Fifth St.
A witness told police the argument was over a hazing incident the night before.
The witness told police four Sigma Nu members entered a Coronado resident's room and poured alcohol down his throat.
Police found the student, who said that the incident had occurred and that he had seen one of his assailants in the hall at about 6:40 p.m. The two started arguing and continued the argument outside.
The student has not decided if he would press charges.
According to police reports, the hall director plans to handle the matter within the hall.

A license plate was stolen this weekend off a UA vehicle parked near the Shantz Building, 1200 E. South Campus Drive.
The plate to a 1993 Chevrolet pick-up truck was last seen Thursday or Friday, a male employee told university police. It was discovered missing Sunday at 12:10 p.m.

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