Police Beat

Tom Collins
Arizona Daily Wildcat
October 17, 1996

A male student was taken to Pima County Jail Tuesday after he ran a stop light on his bicycle.
University police were behind Eugene D. Schwarz, 32, of a general delivery address, at 7:30 p.m. on North Mountain Avenue, when he ran a red light crossing East Speedway Boulevard.
Police stopped Schwarz at East First Street.
When police told Schwarz what he had been stopped for, he said "so what."
Police asked Schwarz for his identification. He said he had none. He also said he knew neither his date of birth nor his social security number. Schwarz said he is a student.
Police also asked Schwarz to put down a bag he was carrying, for the safety of the officers, and asked whether the bag was his. Schwarz said the bag was not, and then changed his answer, saying it was his.
Police then searched the bag and found a wallet that contained identification, including his student ID.
Schwarz told officers he was not certain he would appear at his court date if he were released, so he was placed under arrest.
When police handcuffed Schwarz, he went limp and had to be carried to the police cruiser.
He was taken to Pima County Jail, where he refused to speak to pre-trial services employees and had to be carried to his booking.
Schwarz was booked into the jail on charges of giving false information to law enforcement and refusing to provide evidence of identity. He was also cited for failure to stop at a stop light.

An intruder was reported Tuesday in the Pi Beta Phi sorority, 1035 N. Mountain Ave.
A female student told university police she had left her day room at 2 a.m. Tuesday after a long night of studying. She left the window open with the blinds pulled.
When the student returned at 6:45 a.m., she found her blinds moved and several things in the room disturbed. There was a muddy foot print on the floor.
A second female student told police she had heard what sounded like a person in the sorority's swamp cooler. Police found marks on the swamp cooler and it appeared it had been climbed on to gain entry to the house.
The second student also told police she saw a man run from the front to the back of the house and jump into a lime-green Jeep.
Nothing was taken or damaged.

A male student's weekend trip caused a mild panic this weekend.
The student's mother called university police Monday at 2:24 p.m. when she could not locate her son. The mother told police she had seen the student Friday at 4 p.m. at their Tucson home. She said he had planned to drop by Saturday or Sunday, but did not.
The mother told police that neither the student's roommate nor the hall director in his residence hall had seen him.
When police spoke to the Arizona-Sonora Residence Hall director, she told them she had since learned that the student had gone away with friends for the weekend and was expected back that day.
A statewide advisory was put out to locate the student.
At 9 p.m., the student's mother called police and said the student had returned.

A male student, whose bicycle was stolen Monday morning, recovered it that afternoon.
The student locked his bicycle to a rack west of the Science-Engineering and Oriental Studies Library, 744 N. Highland Ave., at 8:30 a.m. He used a U-lock to secure his $2,500 midnight blue Griffen bicycle.
When the student returned at 9:30 a.m., both the U-lock and bicycle were missing.
At 11 p.m., the student was stopped at East Sixth Street and North Cherry Avenue when he saw a Griffen bicycle ride by.
"That's my bike," he shouted at the rider, who sped off east on Sixth Street, according to police reports.
The student chased the rider to North Warren Avenue and into an alley. There the rider abandoned the bicycle and ran west.
The student found a dent to the bicycle's frame under the seat and his U-lock, valued at $45, was gone.

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