By Bryon Wells
Arizona Daily Wildcat
March 30, 1998

Police Beat

University police warned a man for criminal trespassing Thursday after employees complained he was disturbing the peace and wandering through the Robert L. Nugent building, 1212 E. University Blvd.

An employee told police a man came into the building at 12:51 p.m. and lay down on a sofa.

When the employee asked him if he needed anything, the man asked her if she wanted to get a pizza, police reports stated.

The employee told the man "no," which upset him, and he began walking through the building and bothering employees, reports stated.

Police told the 18-year-old man that since he wasn't a student, he would be arrested for trespassing if he returned to campus without legitimate business.

Before leaving, the man told police he had an appointment with University of Arizona President Peter Likins for tutoring, reports stated.

A student reported receiving death threats on his computer Thursday while surfing the World Wide Web in his room at the Stadium Residence Hall, 1557 E. Sixth St.

The student told university police he was logged on to America Online at 9:54 p.m. when an Instant Message popped up on his screen stating, "I'm going to kill you," police reports stated.

The student replied, "Why?" and the unknown antagonist answered, "Because I like to kill people," reports stated.

The student told police he then typed, "I'm going to report this to the police," and then shut off his computer, reports stated.

He added that there was no return address on the message, and told police he couldn't think of anyone with a reason to send him the deadly dispatch, reports stated.

Two students were referred to the Dean of Student's Diversion Program on drug charges Wednesday after someone complained they were smoking marijuana at the Manzanita-Mohave Residence Hall, 1000 N. Park Ave.

A student told university police he smelled the odor of burning marijuana coming from a fourth-floor room about 3:40 p.m., and that one of the occupants, an 18-year-old student, was taking a shower in the common bathroom, police reports stated.

While the officer waited outside, the reporting student pointed out the other tenant, a 19-year-old student, as he walked to the bathroom and told his roommate that the police were in the hall, reports stated.

Police asked the two students if they could search their room, to which the 19-year-old man told them, "I'll tell you right now, I got pot in there," and that he would get it for them, reports stated.

The student retrieved a Rubbermaid container and plastic baggy with 0.5 grams and 6.5 grams of suspected marijuana, and police also found two "bongs" in the room, reports stated.

Police told the 19-year-old he would be diverted to the Dean of Students for possession of marijuana, and the 18-year-old for possession of drug paraphernalia.

A student's mother called university police Thursday and told them she was worried her son may be suicidal after she spoke to him on the telephone.

The woman told police at 6:19 p.m. that her 18-year-old son was "not himself" and asked her, "What good is it to live when all you do is go to school, have a family, and die?" police reports stated.

The woman added that her son told her if he was going to kill himself, he would "take a bunch of pills," reports stated.

Police responded to the La Paz Residence Hall, 602 N. Highland Ave., and found the student on the east side of the dorm, reports stated.

The student told police he would voluntarily go to the University Medical Center for an evaluation and gave police permission to search his room, reports stated.

Inside the room, police discovered 5.3 grams of a "green leafy substance," Zig Zag cigarette papers, a prescription medicine container with 53 various pills addressed to the student's mother, an unknown brown powder inside a clear bottle, a clear plastic glove containing 29 various pills including "Tylenol 500" and a scale, reports stated.

The student was taken to the UMC emergency room and police will send the substances to Department of Public Safety laboratories for analysis, reports stated.

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