Police Beat

Tom Collins
Arizona Daily Wildcat
December 2, 1996

University police took a 26-year-old Tucson woman to Kino Hospital Tuesday after she threatened suicide and later ran into La Paz Residence Hall while warding off officers with a spiked key chain, police reports stated.
The woman called police from the Visitor Center, 1600 E. University Blvd.
When police arrived at 9:47 a.m., the woman told them she was depressed and had suicidal tendencies. The woman told police she had been hospitalized at the University Medical Center in July after cutting her wrist open with a steak knife.
She said she had not been taking her anti-depressant medication.
The woman told police she had thought about jumping off the Chemical and Biological Sciences Building. According to police reports, she said she imagined that Jesus would catch her and she would only break her ankle.
The woman said it was her life to take and complained no one understood her, police reports stated.
The woman was taken to police headquarters where she was met by a mental health team. As she spoke with the team, the woman became angry and withdrawn, according to police reports. She left headquarters.
After leaving, the woman ran into La Paz Residence Hall, 602 N. Highland Ave. Police cornered the woman in the mailroom, where she held them at bay with a spiked key chain.
She was eventually taken into custody and no one was injured. As she was captured, the woman became angry and tried to kick herself free from police, reports stated.
The woman was taken to Kino Memorial Hospital.

University police reported receiving a strange 911 call Nov. 25 from University Medical Center, 1501 N. Campbell Ave.
A female doctor in the surgery department called 911 at 10:14 a.m., asking for the "real police." The woman hung up while her call was transferred to the Tucson Police Department.
University police followed up the call and found the doctor at her office. The doctor was agitated and told police she would not tell them anything, police reports stated. According to police reports, the doctor said she needed the "real police" and asked the officer to leave.
The doctor told officers to "get out now," police reports stated.
The officer contacted police headquarters from a nearby phone while another doctor, a man who turned out to be the first doctor's husband, went to the office.
The officer returned to the office, and the doctor's husband told the doctor to tell the police to "get the hell out," police reports stated.
The doctor said she was going to get security to remove the officer.
A university police sergeant and lieutenant arrived at the Medical Center and decided not to talk to the couple, but to leave.

Several items were taken Tuesday from a Tucson man's truck parked in the Cherry Avenue Garage, 1641 E. Enke Drive.
The man told police he parked his 1993 Toyota on the second floor of the garage at 6 p.m. to see a University of Arizona basketball game.
He returned at halftime, 6:40 p.m., to get his binoculars.
When he returned to his truck, the man told police he found the back window open and the truck's doors unlocked.
A cellular telephone, a pistol, a watch and a briefcase were missing.
The Motorola TAC Elite telephone was valued at $951.23, the Ruger target pistol at $380, the Seiko watch at $550 and the briefcase at $200.

Several envelopes containing charitable donations were taken Monday from the Economics building, 1110 E. North Campus Drive.
The seven envelopes were in a box that was taken from a second-floor room between 6 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., a female employee told university police.
The employee did not know how much money was in the envelopes.
The money was going to be sent to a family whose daughter is dying of cancer.

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