By Bryon Wells
Arizona Daily Wildcat
April 20, 1998

Police Beat

A student called university police Wednesday after a man exposed his penis to him in a fifth-floor bathroom in the Main Library, 1510 E. University Blvd.

The student went to university police headquarters and told an officer he was in one of the restroom stalls about 3 p.m. when he saw a man through the cracks in the door walk over to a neighboring stall.

The student told police that after a while the man got to his knees and faced him, police reports stated.

The student told police he thought the man had some type of disability and was relieving himself in a special way until he placed his penis under the divider and into the student's stall, reports stated.

The student told police he was offended and "voiced his concerns out loud," and the man quickly left, reports stated.

The student told police he could only see that the man was wearing dark pants and a pair of brown shoes "out of the '70s," reports stated.

University police questioned a man Thursday who previously had been caught on security cameras looking up a woman's dress at the UA Associated Students Bookstore, 1209 E. University Blvd.

The employee told police he saw the man follow a woman around the bookstore Wednesday and then stop and bend forward behind her as she bent over for something.

The woman did not notice the man had stooped to a knee and was looking up her skirt, police reports stated.

The employee saw the same man wandering around the bookstore about 11 a.m. Thursday, but he left by the time police had arrived, reports stated.

Police later found the 48-year-old man leaving the Main Library, 1510 E. University Blvd., and told him he had been "captured on video," reports stated.

Police warned him for trespassing and let him go.

Tucson police arrested a man on drunken driving charges early Thursday after he allegedly tore through a south-campus neighborhood and crashed into four parked cars.

Two university police officers parked in Lot 7103, at East Seventh Street and North Fremont Avenue, were jolted by the sound of screeching tires at 12:57 a.m., police reports stated.

They looked toward the intersection and saw a man in a late model Jeep Cherokee driving west on Seventh Street barrel through a yield sign and narrowly miss a southbound passenger car, reports stated.

The Jeep then lost control and slammed into the driver side of a parked 1982 Chevy Citation, shoving the passenger side rear wheel over the curb and smashing the rear window, reports stated.

The two officers, in separate patrol cars, went to the scene of the accident and saw the Jeep accelerate backwards with smoke billowing from its tires as it straightened up and turned south down Fremont Avenue, reports stated.

The driver then slowed down to about 15 mph, jumped out of the vehicle and ran west behind the Chi Phi fraternity house, 1104 E. Seventh St., reports stated.

The abandoned Jeep continued rolling until it struck a parked Nissan and a blue Volvo, pushing the Volvo into a Ford Taurus, reports stated. All of the cars were parked on Fremont Avenue between Seventh and Eighth streets.

The pursuing officer ran after the man, who finally dropped to his stomach and put his hands on his head in front of a house on Seventh Street, reports stated.

Police immediately put the man, identified as Ryan W. Bullington, 21, of the 2500 block of East Lester Street, in a patrol car as they waited for Tucson police to arrive.

While in the back of the police car, Bullington told police, "Oh shit. I'm going to jail. I really fucked up, I'm gonna do a year for this one," and police discovered a strong odor of alcohol on his breath, reports stated.

Bullington was released to the custody of Tucson police so they could conduct a DUI investigation.

A student Thursday told university police somebody had taken a leather bag containing 100 harp strings and various cassettes from her car while it was parked in the Park Avenue Garage, 1140 N. Park Ave.

The student told police her car was parked in a second-level space between 8 p.m. Tuesday and 8 a.m. Thursday, when a UA Parking and Transportation employee told her a window on her vehicle was broken. She told police somebody took the strings, valued at $1,000, and about $50 worth of cassette tapes.

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