Police Beat

Tom Collins
Arizona Daily Wildcat
October 30, 1996

A Tucson man was arrested Monday after a verbal confrontation with the director of Associated Students' Escort Services.
University police responded at 9:51 p.m. to the intersection of North Santa Rita Avenue and East Drachman Street after Escort Services volunteers reported two men in the street yelling at cars.
Police saw the two men "staggering and appearing intoxicated." One of the men, William W. Yeaton, 42, of the 1000 block of East Lee Street, smelled strongly of alcohol, reports stated.
Tim Walker, Escort Services director, told police that he saw Yeaton in the road and approached him to see if he was all right.
"What in the fuck do you think you're doing? I am going to kick your fucking ass," Yeaton said to Walker, according to police reports.
The other man told police Yeaton was a Vietnam War veteran suffering from flashbacks. He said he had never seen Yeaton so inebriated, police reports stated.
As police were talking to Walker, Yeaton had to be restrained by the other man.
Yeaton was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct. As he was taken to Pima County Jail, he muttered at police, "I'll never forget you, you punk." He then asked the officer how he looks at his mother, police reports stated.
According to the reports, Yeaton repeatedly asked what the charges against him were. He told police he "had committed no crimes against the Constitution of the United States of America."

University police were called Sunday after a female student was reportedly harassed in the Arizona Health Sciences Center Library, 1501 N. Campbell Ave.
Police arrived to find the student in tears.
The student told police she was using the phone in the lobby of the library at 9:14 p.m. When she hung up, a man began to harass her.
According to police reports, the man called her a "bitch" and complained about the amount of time she had been on the phone as he followed her through the library.
The student told police that a similar incident occurred with the same man Oct. 13.
The student also told police she was using the same phone between 9:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. When she got off the phone, the man began bothering her. The student told police the man grabbed her by the arm and squeezed her jaw, although the student was not injured.
The student told police she would prosecute the man if he is found. She also said she would help police draw a composite sketch of the man.

A car was reported vandalized Saturday in the Second Street Garage, 1340 E. Second St.
A man called university police at 11:42 p.m. after he saw several people throw a portable handicap parking sign through the windshield of a 1989 Nissan Sentra.
Police found the windshield broken with the sign embedded in it.
The man told police the vandals then got into a car and drove off.
Police called the owner of the car, who gave them his son's pager number. The son did not respond to the page, but the car was gone Sunday at 1 a.m.

An elevator was reported vandalized Sunday in Coronado Residence Hall, 822 E. Fifth St.
Police were called at 11:55 a.m. after graffiti in black ink was written inside the hall's southwest elevator.
The graffiti read "pussy" and "Jews suck."
A resident assistant told university police the vandalism had been reported to her by a resident's parent.

A parking permit was reported stolen Saturday from a car parked in Lot 5066, west of Kaibab-Huachuca Residence Hall, 922 E. Fourth St.
A female student told university police she had parked her 1986 Ford Tempo with the windows open in the lot last Wednesday at 10:30 p.m. She noticed the permit missing Saturday at noon.
The student had been issued a parking citation Thursday at 4:22 p.m.
The value of the Zone 1 permit was unknown, according to police reports.

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