POLICE BEAT

University police arrested a Tucson man on suspicion of marijuana possession and criminal trespassing Sunday, after an officer saw him sleeping in a parking garage near the University Services building, 888 N. Euclid Ave.

Lance A. Isaacs, 35, of a general delivery address, was sleeping in a second-level corner of the garage when the officer spotted him at 9:28 p.m., police reports stated.

The officer arrested Isaacs after a check revealed a Yuma arrest warrant stemming from a trespassing charge.

Isaacs the told the officer he was carrying a sheathed knife with a 12-inch blade, reports stated.

Isaacs then pulled out four plastic bags containing suspected marijuana seeds and fragments of a green leafy substance, according to police reports. He also produced a 4-inch multi-color smoking pipe with a burnt residue, which he said he used to smoke marijuana, reports stated.

Isaacs was arrested on suspicion of marijuana and drug paraphernalia and for the outstanding warrant. He was taken to Pima County Jail to await extradition.

A teenager was cited Friday for violating the University of Arizona's skateboarding policies after someone told university police he and another boy were trick-riding at the Memorial Student Union, 1303 E. University Blvd.

An officer arrived at 1:50 p.m., after receiving another complaint that the teenagers were causing a disturbance and saw the two in a crowded area near the central staircase doing rail slides, police reports stated.

One of the teenagers, identified as Colin W. Edwards, 16, of the 5700 block of E. Fairmount St., told the officer he had received a warning in May for skateboarding on campus.

A police records check indicated that the other boy, also 16, had no previous warnings for the offense, and the officer released him with a warning of the university's skateboarding policies, reports stated.

Edwards was taken to university police headquarters, where he was cited with disturbing the peaceful conduct of an educational institution and then released to his mother.

A university police officer assisted a U.S. Forest Service agent June 6 in citing two Safford men on suspicion of reckless driving at a Mount Graham camping site.

The officer was driving on state Route 366 toward the Mount Graham Large Binocular Telescope construction site about 3:30 p.m., when he received a radio transmission calling for police assistance at the Riggs Flat campgrounds, police reports stated.

The officer arrived at about 4 p.m. and spoke to a campgrounds employee, who said that two men riding in a blue pickup truck had driven off of the camping ground's boat ramp and parked near the entrance despite posted signs prohibiting such actions, reports stated.

The employee told the officer he confronted the two men and told them they couldn't park there. Records show the employee saw a case of beer inside the truck and could smell alcohol on their breaths.

According to the employee, the two men were belligerent and returned to their truck, spinning the tires as they peeled out of the grass area, reports stated.

The two then proceeded the wrong direction down a road, before blocking the road with the truck near adjoining campsites, reports stated.

The officer later spotted the truck and one of the drivers, identified as Travis J. Belcher, 20, of Safford, who told the officer he was the one who parked the truck off the roadway at the boat ramp, reports stated.

Another man, identified as Robert C. Smith, 24, also of Safford, approached the officer and said he drove the vehicle and parked the truck at the campsite, reports stated.

A U.S. Forest Service agent then arrived and cited Belcher for driving off the boat ramp roadway and Smith for reckless driving reports stated.

The two were later released.

A UA employee told university police Thursday that somebody stole his cellular telephone after breaking into his 1997 Toyota station wagon vehicle while parked in Lot 5072, near 901 E. Sixth St.

The employee told police he parked and locked the car about 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.

He returned at 4:35 p.m. to find the driver's side window broken and his $127 Motorola cellular phone missing, police reports stated.

The employee reported the crime to police Thursday, after he found out that whoever took his phone had already made 96 minutes of phone calls, reports stated.

University police detectives will follow up the case.

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