Police Beat

Tom Collins
Arizona Daily Wildcat
November 21, 1996

University police responded Nov. 9 to a report of a fight at Zeta Beta Tau fraternity house, 1011 N. Tyndall Ave.
At 6:46 p.m., a Tucson Police Department officer called university police about the disturbance involving 50 people.
People dispersed before university police arrived.
Three fuel tanks had been ignited and thrown into the ZBT swimming pool, according to police reports. The fraternity house had been smeared with paint and had windows broken. The entry to the house and the courtyard inside were covered with eggs, manure, canola oil and fire extinguisher discharge.
When university police arrived, a "large quantity of smoke" was blowing off the pool, police reports stated. The Tucson Fire Department had already arrived and attended to the fire.
Police spoke to several fraternity members who said the episode was not a fight at all, but a yearly incident involving new members of the fraternity.
The fraternity's president told police he had slept through the event and did not want to prosecute. He told police this was the first time extensive damage had been done to the house.
The fire department returned at 7:30 a.m. to attend to unburned fuel accumulating on top of the swimming pool, police reports stated.
The fuel containers were placed into evidence.
No arrests have been made.

A female student reported being verbally harassed Tuesday outside the Memorial Student Union, 1303 E. University Blvd.
The student said she was sitting on a bench near a fountain at 3 p.m. when a man sitting on another bench began making loud noises. There was a divider between the benches.
The man then leaned around the divider and said, "I want your pussy," according to university police reports.
As the student collected her things and left, the man continued talking to her.
The student said she would assist police in creating a composite sketch of the man.

A Tucson man was cited for a weapons' violation Saturday at North Mountain Avenue and East Second Street.
University police saw Frank M. Hillary, 73, of the 400 block of East Rosales Street, start to turn his 1980 Ford Pinto from North Mountain Avenue east on to East First Street, a west only street.
Instead of finishing the turn, Hillary continued south on Mountain, with his left tires over the lane divider. Hillary then turned the car east on to East Second Street without getting into the left turn lane. Police stopped him after the turn.
Police smelled alcohol on Hillary's breath, according to police reports.
Before exiting his vehicle, Hillary told police he had a .22-caliber pistol in the pocket of his shirt. Police removed the pistol and a small can of Mace from Hillary's pocket.
Police searched Hillary for other weapons and found a butterfly knife and four marijuana cigarettes in a cigarette case, police reports stated. Hillary also had another knife in a sheath on his belt. The other weapons werein the Pinto's glove compartment.
Hillary passed field sobriety tests and was cited for carrying a concealed weapon and unlawful possession of marijuana. He was released at the scene. The pistol, its ammunition cartridge, the butterfly knife, the cigarette case and the cigarettes were placed into evidence.

A male student called university police Tuesday to report a stolen parking permit taken from the lot outside Corleone Apartments, 1330 N. Park Ave.
He told police the permit was stolen from his 1974 Volkswagen on or around Oct. 3, but he had never bothered to report it.
The student went to Parking and Transportation Services Tuesday to pay off parking citations. He was told that two citations had been issued under his permit number since the time his permit was stolen. The citations were issued Oct. 21 and Nov. 15 to a 1987 Nissan parked in Lot 4055 at East First Street and North Vine Avenue.
The case remains open.Police reports listed the value of the Zone 1 permit at $259.
Police Beat is compiled from official University of Arizona Police Department reports.