Police Beat

Tom Collins
Arizona Daily Wildcat
October 21, 1996

Noxious gases affected several employees Wednesday at the Arizona Cancer Center, 1515 N. Campbell Ave.
At 11:30 a.m., university police responded to a report of an unknown gas coming from a construction site at the center.
The Tucson Fire Department established the gas was hydrogen sulfide coming from tar pots used at the site.
Five workers suffered minor skin and eye irritation, and the center was evacuated. None of the workers needed medical attention.
Fans were used to disperse the gas, and the building was reopened at 1:43 p.m.

A male student was assaulted Thursday about 1:20 a.m. at the intersection of East First Street and North Martin Avenue.
Patrolling university police found several males standing in Martin Avenue, and stopped to ask them to get out of the street. One of the males, a student, was cut on his left cheek.
A black Ford Explorer had driven by the group a few minutes earlier and a passenger had said something unintelligible, members of the group told police.
When the group responded, "What?", the Explorer stopped and two men got out, group members said. They said one of the men head butted the student, causing the wound.
A Tucson Fire Department ambulance was called to attend to the student's wound, but the student would not go to the hospital.
The Tucson Police Department was given a description of the suspect vehicle.

University police were called Thursday at 2:20 a.m. when an apparently intoxicated student was taken to St. Mary's Hospital, 1601 W. St. Mary's Road.
A nurse at the emergency room called police when a male student with suspicious marks on his neck arrived at the hospital.
Several male students, who brought their companion to the hospital, told the following story:
The student drank a fifth of Southern Comfort and began to lose consciousness. The other students decided to take him to the hospital.
As the group drove to St. Mary's, the student began to throw up. The group stopped at a Texaco station, where they tore his shirt off and "washed him down with the service station water hose," before continuing on to the hospital.
The marks, located on the student's neck, occurred when his shirt was removed.
Police reports indicated the student was "unconscious at the time of initial interview and could not provide further information."
The student bore no proof of age, but blood was taken and submitted to the Arizona Department of Public Safety for testing.
No citations were issued.

A sign was removed Thursday from the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house, 1509 E. Second St.
Three 2-foot-by-1-foot letters reading "SAE" were taken between 12:45 and 10:15 a.m.
A male resident told police he had not noticed any disturbance outside when he went to bed at 2 a.m.
Some minor damage was done to the house during the theft, and the resident told university police he did not think the theft was a prank.
The value of the letters was unknown.

Unknown persons attempted to steal a car stereo outside the Alpha Delta Pi sorority house, 1443 E. First St.
A female student reported parking her 1987 Honda Prelude near the sorority Wednesday at 10 p.m. Thursday at 11:40 a.m., the student discovered her driver side window broken.
The student told university police she locked her doors when she left her car, but found the passenger door unlocked.
Part of the dashboard had been pried open, and several wires were cut, but the stereo was not taken.
The face plate to the stereo was left on the driver seat, and a number of compact discs were left untouched on the floor of the car.
Police found no fingerprints.

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