Police Beat

Tom Collins
Arizona Daily Wildcat
November 6, 1996

Reports of a fight early Saturday brought university police to the Sigma Nu fraternity house, 1402 N. Cherry Ave.
When police arrived at 2:06 a.m., a resident told them he had been assaulted and the man who hit him had just run off.
The resident told police that the man, Jackson B. Lynch, 21, of the 1000 block of East Lee Street, was a former Sigma Nu member. He also told police that he and Lynch and he did not like each other and the two had fought Friday.
Witnesses told police Lynch arrived with six other men asking to speak with the resident. They were told to leave. The other men left, but Lynch stayed and sat down on the resident's bed to wait.
Police found Lynch walking nearby. He said he had gone to the fraternity to find a friend and while he was there sat down on the resident's bed to wait for his friend.
Police reports did not state that an assault actually occurred.
Lynch was arrested and booked into Pima County Jail on a charge of criminal trespassing in a residential structure.

School rivalry may have caused a Saturday night fight in parking Lot 3046, east of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house, 1340 E. First St.
At 1:44 a.m., university police heard shouts in the parking lot and saw several people fighting. Police stopped the fight and found one man, an Arizona State University student, lying on the ground.
According to police reports, an argument about the UA-ASU football rivalry lead to the fight between several Pi Kappa Alpha members and three ASU students. Later reports indicated that the ASU students were trying to convince the women accompanying the Pi Kappa Alpha members to go to a party with them.
Witnesses told police that a Pi Kappa Alpha member punched the ASU student after the ASU student "jumped" him. The ASU student was knocked out and taken to University Medical Center.
Monday, the president of Pi Kappa Alpha apologized to the ASU student, who was in the hospital, on behalf of the house, but the Pi Kappa Alpha member who hit the ASU student said he wants to pursue assault charges against him, according to police reports.
No arrests were made and the case remains under investigation.

A gate and a male student's car were vandalized Thursday at Yuma Residence Hall, 1107 E. North Campus Drive.
The hall director called university police at 10:59 p.m. when the damage was discovered.
"Die bitches" was written on the gate door behind the residence hall and "Eat me raw " on the student's car.
The words were written in white shoe polish.

Three pairs of blue jeans were reported taken Thursday from Arizona-Sonora Residence Hall, 910 E. Fifth St.
A female student told university police she put a load of laundry in the dryer at 3 p.m. She collected her laundry at 3:30 p.m.
At 9:30 p.m., the student was folding her laundry and noticed her blue jeans missing.
The pairs of Levi's 505, 512 and 521 style jeans were valued at $35 each.

A verbal confrontation Saturday led to the destruction of a mailbox at the Alpha Epsilon Phi fraternity house, 1510 N. Cherry Ave.
At 1 a.m., a male student was following a green Pathfinder traveling slowly on North Mountain Avenue. At the intersection of North Mountain Avenue and East Fort Lowell Street, two men in the truck accused the student of tailgating them.
The men "yelled profanities and threats," according to police reports. The men followed the student to the fraternity house.
The men got out and began arguing with several members of the fraternity, then left.
As they left, one of the men grabbed the house's mailbox and smashed it, then pushed over the mailbox pole.
University police responded but were not able to find the Pathfinder, which was last seen heading north on Ring Road, near University Medical Center.

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