Police Beat

Tom Collins
Arizona Daily Wildcat
November 13, 1996

Reports of vandalism Monday brought university police to the former Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house, 1525 E. Drachman St.
At 2:53 a.m., a Pi Kappa Alpha member called police to report someone painting the house. The house is empty, but the fraternity still owns it.
Police arrived and found three men walking around the house.
One of the men, a student, told police they were just "snooping around." The student had green paint on his hands, which he said he had gotten from touching the wet paint on the walls of the house.
Another student told police he has been in the house, but that he had not damaged anything. He said he was there as part of the initiation for another fraternity.
The third man told police the three had vandalized the house.
The "PIKE" painted on the house had been changed to read "DIKE," and there were initials on the house reading "MM" and "JE 649."
The Pi Kappa Alpha member said the fraternity would not press charges if the men cleaned up the damage. The men told police they would do so.

A female student was cited for theft Monday after a stolen phone card number was tracked to her.
A male student called university police at 2:59 p.m. after he received his latest statement from his telephone credit card company. He told police he had only made two of the 341 calls on the bill, which amounted to $421.05.
The most frequently occurring number on the card was to an Apache-Santa Cruz Residence Hall room, 1420 E. Fifth St. The calls had been made from Hemet, Calif. Several other calls were made from Tucson to Hemet.
Police spoke to the residents of the room at 8:20 p.m. One of the residents, Tawnee L. Lillo, 18, told officers she is from Hemet.
Lillo's roommate told police that Lillo spends "a lot of time on the phone." She told police she had loaned Lillo her calling card before to enable Lillo to call her family and her boyfriend.
Lillo was hesitant to admit she used the card, police reports stated. The reports stated she did identify her boyfriend's telephone number on the bill, but did not know how he got the card number. Twenty-two calls were made from the pay phone outside Apache-Santa Cruz, and Lillo admitted to making those calls.
Lillo asked police if there was a way she could pay back the charges without getting cited and was told that would not be possible.
She was cited for theft of services by control and released.
Later that evening, Lillo called police and told them she had gotten the credit card number at a fraternity house and thought the card was prepaid.

A man sleeping Sunday in the Memorial Student Union, 1303 E. University Blvd., was awakened and eventually cited by university police.
Andrew L. Shepard, 22, of the 7000 block of East Vernice Street., was found sleeping on a couch on the stage of the Arizona Ballroom at 2:36 a.m. while police were walking through the building.
Shepard said he worked for ISS, the service company that cleans the Student Union.
Shepard's former supervisor told police he had been fired Friday and that he was not supposed to be in the Student Union.
While citing Shepard for trespassing, police searched Shepard and found a baggie containing 4.1 grams of a "green, leafy substance." Shepard said the substance was "weed," police reports stated.
Shepard was taken to police headquarters where he was cited for second-degree trespassing and possession of marijuana. He was released on his promise to appear in court.

An evicted student was escorted Thursday from Coronado Residence Hall, 822 E. Fifth St.
As the student was moving out of the hall, the hall director overheard the student say he was going to blow up the building and that he was "not a killer" before the eviction, university police reports stated.
When police confronted the student, he told them he did not remember threatening to blow up the hall, but that he did not mean it if he said it.
The hall director was not sure whether she wanted to press charges for the threats. Police stayed at the hall until the student finished packing and had left.
Both the hall director and police warned the student not to return to Coronado or he would be arrested on criminal trespassing charges.

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