Police Beat

Tom Collins
Arizona Daily Wildcat
December 6, 1996

A golf cart was reported stolen Tuesday from Sancet Field, 640 N. Warren Ave.
A female employee told university police the cart and a battery charger were taken from a storage area at the field sometime before Nov. 22.
The cart, which was in storage awaiting repairs, had not yet been tagged as university property.
The employee said that the university motor pool and other sections of the athletic department had been contacted, but no one had seen the cart.
The white Harley-Davidson golf cart was valued at $1,300. The battery charger was valued at $500.

A truck was taken Wednesday from Lot 4053 at East Speedway Boulevard and North Cherry Avenue.
A male student told university police he parked and locked the truck in the lot at 9:45 a.m. He returned at 6 p.m. to discover the truck missing.
The student told police the truck was owned by a Phoenix man.
The blue Chevrolet pick up truck was valued at $10,000.

A car was vandalized Wednesday outside the Delta Tau Delta fraternity house, 1550 N. Vine Ave.
A male student called university police Wednesday at 3 a.m. after he saw two men break the rear passenger window of a green 1992 Honda.
The student said he was on the second floor of the house when he heard glass breaking outside. He said he went to the window and saw the two men by the car. They ran off when they heard the student yelling.
The owner of the car told police nothing was missing from his car. The value of the damage was unknown.
Damage to four other cars in the area was reported to the Tucson Police Department.

Two bicycles were taken Tuesday from outside the Family and Consumer Resources building, 1110 E. South Campus Drive.
A male student told university police he and his wife secured their bicycles with a cable lock to a rack outside the building at 10 a.m. The couple then went to class and returned at 11 a.m. to discover their bicycles and the lock gone.
One of the bicycles, a purple Cannondale, was valued at $512. The other, a yellow Giant Iguana, was valued at $425.

Several pharmaceutical capsules were found Tuesday in Manzanita-Mojave Residence Hall, 1000 N. Park Ave.
A male student called university police at 10:30 p.m. after he found the red and white capsules on the fourth floor of the hall outside the elevator.
The student said that another student had called poison control, but was unable to identify the capsules.
The capsules were taken to police headquarters. Police called a local pharmacy, but it was not able to identify the capsules either.

A Tucson woman was arrested Tuesday on a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol after university police stopped her vehicle on East Sixth Street just west of North Euclid Avenue.
Police reported seeing Cynthia L. Hornback, 27, of the 4000 block of North La Cholla Drive, make an illegal left turn from North Fremont Avenue onto Sixth Street.
Hornback then drove west on Sixth Street at 55 mph, police reports stated. The speed limit is 35 mph.
When police approached Hornback's vehicle, they smelled a strong odor of alcohol, police reports stated. Hornback told police she had been drinking earlier in the evening, the reports said.
As Hornback performed field sobriety tests, she complained of being cold. She said her husband had thrown up on her jacket earlier that evening. Police loaned her a jacket.
A Tucson Police Department officer arrived at the scene and administered a mobile breath test for alcohol. That test indicated Hornback's blood-alcohol concentration was .16.
Hornback was taken to university police headquarters, where she took several Intoxilyzer tests. Those tests showed blood-alcohol concentrations of .123, .096, .119 and .120.
Hornback was cited for DUI and DUI with a blood-alcohol concentration greater than .10. She was released from the police station.

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