By John Brown
Arizona Daily Wildcat
September 10, 1997

Police Beat

A female student was arrested on DUI charges early Friday after driving without headlights and running a stop sign near North Tyndall Avenue and East Second Street.

Jessica L. Fucello, 18, of Coronado Hall, 822 E. Fifth St., was arrested on a charge of minor operating a motor vehicle with liquor in the body.

At UAPD headquarters Fucello's Intoxilyzer test resulted in a .090 percent blood alcohol level.

University police got behind the white BMW heading south on North Euclid Avenue near East First Street that did not have its headlights on. The car made a left onto East Second Street, then a second left onto North Tyndall Avenue, going through the stop sign.

According to reports, police detected a slight odor of alcohol on Fucello's breath.

However, she denied drinking that night and replied, " I smell like beer because I was at a party," reports stated.

The passenger in the vehicle told university police she had not been with Fucello the entire night and did not know if she had been drinking.

Fucello's arrest was based on her driving behavior and her field sobriety test performance. Police then drove Fucello home after completing her breath test at UAPD.

Three students were arrested on drug charges at Graham-Greenlee Residence Hall Saturday after university police were not convinced that the bong in the room was for burning incense.

Noel H. Conrad, 19, Nicholas A. Rita, 18, both of 610 N. Highland Ave., and Heather A. Joy, 18, of the 1500 Block East Sixth Street, were arrested on charges of unlawful possession of marijuana. Conrad had an additional charge of possession of drug paraphernalia

Police visited Conrad about 2:30 a.m. after someone reported the smell marijuana coming from his room.

According to reports, police also detected a strong odor of marijuana, however, Noel told police it was incense.

Noel then showed police a clear cup with incense sticks in it, but police also noticed some marijuana stems, reports stated.

Noel first told police they were basil stems he used to make tea and then changed his mind and said he was not sure what kind they were.

Rita told police he had smoked two to three "bowls" of marijuana out of "a bong" that night.

Police also spotted a two-foot water bong in the room, which Noel said was his, reports stated.

Inside Conrad's backpack police found a resinated gold pipe, a glass mouth piece and other smoking accessories.

According to reports, Joy had provided the marijuana that night and told police she had more at home.

Police then went with Joy to her house where she gave police a clear baggy with 26 grams of marijuana.

All the students were cited and released at the scene.

A female student told university police she was injured and lost her cigarettes after three men pushed her into the street at a Delta Tau Delta Fraternity party Saturday.

The student told police she was at the party at 1550 N. Vine Ave., about 2:30 a.m. when a member told her to leave.

She told the man she would go after she found her two friends. The student told police she was leaving when two men pushed her down and a third man crushed her pack of cigarettes.

She told police that earlier in the night she had been in an argument with the man's girlfriend.

She suffered abrasions on her left leg, right forearm, back and a small cut near her right eye.

University police went to the Franklin Building Tuesday after a report of a 19-year-old female student lying on the ground unconscious.

When police arrived at the classroom on 1011 E. Fifth St. about 8 a.m., the student was awake but could not remember the black out. She still felt ill and dizzy and was taken to St. Mary's Hospital via ambulance for evaluation.

She had a couple of scrapes on her face from falling.

The battle to find parking on campus made one student angry Monday after he was beat out of a space in the temporary lot at North Cherry Avenue and East University Boulevard.

A woman told university police she was in the lot about 1:30 p.m. waiting for a car to back out and then pulled in the spot.

The woman told police that a man in a blue sports car then pulled in behind her and started yelling that he was going to park there.

When the woman refused to move her car, the man said he was going to "fuck her off" and then drove away, reports stated.

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