By Bryon Wells
Arizona Daily Wildcat
April 23, 1998

Police Beat

An employee Tuesday reported a video camera designed to be used with a microscope had been stolen from the Steward Observatory, 933 N. Cherry Ave.

The employee told university police the $995 camera was last seen mounted to a microscope in a first-floor room at 8 a.m. April 10.

The employee said the microscope/camera attachment is often placed in an adjoining hallway because it takes up space, and that she realized it was missing at 10 a.m. Friday, police reports stated.

The employee told police she doesn't remember seeing anyone suspicious in the area.

A student returning to her bicycle Tuesday discovered that somebody had taken all of it but the front wheel, which remained locked to a rack near Coronado Residence Hall, 822 E. Fifth St.

The student told university police she locked her bike at 1 p.m. Friday. When she returned at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, she found her front wheel safe and secured to the rack, but the rest of her bike was missing, police reports stated.

A student told police Tuesday he was the victim of a drive-by egging while walking near East University Boulevard and North Cherry Avenue.

The student said a green Ford Explorer driving south on Cherry Boulevard sped past him at 12:24 a.m. and a man leaned out the window and threw several eggs but did not hit him.

The truck continued on its southward path, and the student was able to tell police the license number, but could not describe the man who lobbed the eggs.

Officers circulating the area could not locate the egg men.

University police questioned a student claiming lost property Tuesday after finding two different driver licenses stuffed in a wallet found near the Harvill building, 1103 E. Second St.

Officers became suspicious when they discovered that a wallet turned in to university police headquarters at 3:43 p.m. had a 23-year-old student's New Jersey driver license and a 20-year-old student's Arizona driver license inside, police reports stated.

The 20-year-old student later came in to claim the wallet and told police he and the other student were in his apartment the day before comparing how their facial features had changed since the photographs on their licenses had been taken.

The student told police the 23-year-old student forgot his license and he put it in his wallet so he could return it to him, reports stated.

The 23-year-old student later arrived and told police the same story, reports stated.

Police warned them both of the consequences of using another person's identification card and then released them.

A university police officer reported April 1 he may have lost his badge at the cleaners.

The officer reported he finished his shift at 4 p.m. March 28 and placed his gold University of Arizona Police Department badge on top of his locker while he changed his clothes. He then put the badge in his pants pocket and left university police headquarters.

When he prepared to go to work at 6 a.m. March 30, he could not locate his badge, police reports stated.

He suspects that he left it on one of his uniform shirts he had sent to the dry cleaners.

The uniform had been later returned to him without the badge, and the loss was reported to prevent fraudulent use of the shield, reports stated.

University police cited a student on an alcohol charge April 16 after catching her trying to sneak a swig of beer while sitting in the parking lot of Saguaro Credit Union, 801 E. Speedway Blvd.

An officer spotted three young women sitting in the lot about 2:30 a.m., police reports stated.

The officer drove into the lot just as one of the trio, Kelly L. Smith, 18, of the 1000 block of North Park Avenue, took a sip from a Budweiser beer can, then quickly tucked it into her jacket, reports stated.

The officer asked if she was drinking anything, to which she replied, "No, I swear to God," reports stated.

The officer told Smith to show him what she tried to tuck away, then cited her on a charge of minor in possession of alcohol. He released her after dumping the beer.

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