Police Beat

Tom Collins
Arizona Daily Wildcat
October 28, 1996

Two men were arrested Thursday night after university police stopped a pickup truck with expired registration.
At 7:18 p.m., police turning south from East Speedway Boulevard onto North Euclid Avenue, saw the truck which had an "obstructed" license plate, police reports stated. A computer check showed the temporary Ohio plate was expired. The truck was stopped at East First Street and North First Avenue.
The driver, Harold B. Barnett, 44, of the 800 block of North Wilmot Avenue, did not have a driver's license and told police he thought it might be suspended. A computer check showed Barnett had a warrant for failure to appear on a theft charge. It also showed his license was suspended.
The passenger, Paul R. Kent, 53, of the 700 block of East 10th Street, was wanted for failure to appear on charges of possessing and using prescription drugs illegally.
A bag containing $8,000 cash was in the truck. Barnett would not let police hold the bag in safekeeping, but had a police officer count out $1,000 to bail him and Kent out of jail. The bag was placed behind the seats of the truck and the two were transported to Pima County Jail.
Barnett and Kent were released by Pre-trial Services and returned to the truck.
Barnett was also cited for driving on a suspended license, expired registration and failure to transfer a title within 30 days.

A female student called university police to report ongoing harassment by a male student.
The female student called police Thursday and told officers this story:
The female student had attended high school with the male student. Over the course of the summer, the male student called her several times to ask her to go out with him and his friends. The female student declined each time because the male student would not tell her what they were going to do.
The female student told police she had heard that the male student told his friends he was playing a "game," and that the male student had identified her as "a potential sexual assault victim," according to police reports.
Early this school year, the female student told police the male student had obtained her residence hall room number and telephone number.
The female student said she had received anonymous electronic mail messages which turned out to be from the male student. One of the messages was "vulgar" and the other two involved several hundred duplicated messages.
The female student told police she was considering getting an order of protection against the male student. Police told the man the female student wanted no contact with him. The male student said he understood and would not contact her anymore.

Two pieces of jewelry were reported missing Tuesday from the Alumni Foundation Building, 1111 N. Cherry Ave.
A female employee told university police she locked the building's doors at 5:30 p.m. The employee then went to the restroom. While in the restroom she took off her two rings, she said. Another employee entered and the two spoke. The employees left, but the rings were left behind.
As the employee walked to her class at 6 p.m., she noticed her rings missing and returned to the building. The rings were gone. None of the other employees in the building said they had seen the rings.
The employee lost a 14 karat gold and topaz ring, valued at $1,500, and an 18 karat gold band with a 1.5 carat cluster of diamonds, valued at $1,200.

A man was arrested for trespassing Wednesday at the Sigma Nu fraternity house, 1402 N. Cherry Ave.
A community service officer saw a man, Gerald Lee Moor, 41, of a general delivery address, who had been previously arrested for bicycle theft, leave University Medical Center and enter the house at 10:20 a.m.
University police arrived and searched outside and then entered the house. Moor was found in a first-floor restroom. He told police he was looking for work. A computer check showed Moor had previously been warned for trespassing.
A resident of the fraternity told police Moor was not doing any work for the house and that he was willing to press trespassing charges.
Moor was taken to Pima County Jail and booked on a charge of criminal trespassing.

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