Police Beat

Tom Collins
Arizona Daily Wildcat
October 31, 1996

A male student was arrested on narcotics charges Tuesday after the smell of marijuana was reported coming from his room in Kaibab-Huachuca Residence Hall, 922 E. Fourth St.
A resident assistant said he saw the student, Benjamin M. Moretsky, 19, tear down several posters on the second floor of the hall. When the RA went to the student's room, he smelled marijuana and called university police.
Police reports gave this account:
Officers responded at 8:53 p.m. and knocked on Moretsky's door several times before he answered.
Moretsky told police he though they were there because he had torn down the posters. Officers then informed him of the marijuana report.
Moretsky told police he had not smoked any marijuana and did not have any.
When police asked to search him, he showed them a glass pipe in his pants' pocket with residue in it.
Moretsky retrieved several other drug-related items from under his bed, including a Rubbermaid container that held residue of a "green, leafy substance" and a plastic bag containing .4 grams of a "hard, black substance."
"It's opium," Moretsky told police.
Moretsky told police he had bought the opium from "a guy in the hall" for $20.
Moretsky then admitted he had smoked marijuana that evening.
Police spoke to a student who had been seen in Moretsky's room that evening. He said he had not smoked any marijuana, but identified the student who sold Moretsky the opium.
Police went to that student's room, but he was not there. Police reports indicated that officers will attempt to contact that student again.
Moretsky was arrested on one count of narcotics possession and one count of possession of narcotic paraphernalia. He was booked into Pima County Jail.

Two men reportedly threatened a resident assistant Tuesday in Apache-Santa Cruz Residence Hall, 1420 E. Fifth St.
The RA making rounds at 12:55 a.m. saw the men on the hall's third floor. He asked if they needed help.
One of the men told the RA they were looking for his cousin, but they did not know the cousin's room number. The RA told the men they could not be in the hall without a resident escort and had to leave.
The two men then told the RA he should come outside so they could "kick his ass," according to police reports.
A female student told university police she had met one of the men in Mexico and told him she lived in Apache-Santa Cruz.
The RA said he would press charges if the men were found, but police could not find the men.

A man carrying a bicycle tire was stopped Monday by university police.
Police saw two men on bicycles riding north on North Cherry Avenue. According to police reports, the men noticed police following them and split up at East Speedway Boulevard.
Police followed the man with the wheel, Bill M. Williams, 24, as he road west on the south sidewalk along Speedway.
Williams then headed south through a private parking lot and back onto Cherry. Williams then headed west along East First Street and was stopped in the 1600 block.
Williams had no identification and said he did not know his address or phone number, police reports stated. He did tell police that he lived in the Grant-Dodge Apartments.
Williams told police his friend Darrell gave him the wheel. Williams said he did not know Darrell's last name or phone number.
Williams said Darrell could identify the bicycle wheel, and police took it for safekeeping.
Williams was cited for riding the wrong way down a one-way street and released at the scene.

University police were called to a residence hall Tuesday after a male student threatened suicide.
A female student called police about 3:30 a.m. because her boyfriend was talking about suicide.
The student was "basically stressed out" and "not sure he was cut out for college," police reports stated.
The male student told officers he had been contemplating jumping out of his window. He was voluntarily taken to St. Mary's Hospital.

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