By John Brown
Arizona Daily Wildcat
September 23, 1997

Police Beat

Two men reported seeing a yellow Chevrolet pickup crash through the wooden traffic gates across from the Harvill Building on Sept. 16.

The men told university police the truck was heading westbound on East Second Street near Olive Avenue about 3:30 p.m. when it struck the first gate at full speed as if the driver did not see it.

According to reports, the truck stopped in front of the second gate and waited about one minute before pushing up against the gate slowly until it eventually broke.

They told police the man driving the truck then headed toward North Park Avenue.

A student got the license plate number and gave it to a parking and transportation employee.

Police left a message for the registered owner of the vehicle to contact UAPD.

Parking and Transportation said it would not press charges if the man paid the $48 in damages.

University police referred a 14-year-old girl to the Pima County Juvenile Center Thursday after officers saw her with a suspected marijuana cigarette near Arizona-Sonora Residence Hall, 940 E. Fifth St.

Officers were on the south side of the dorm about 1:30 p.m. when they spotted five young girls sitting down. One of the girls threw the cigarette in the grass when she saw the police.

Police found the Marlboro cigarette, which was filled with a green leafy substance, reports stated.

The 14-year-old girl told police she had no knowledge of it containing marijuana, but the four other girls said they had watched her fill it up.

She was referred to the Juvenile Center where she was released to her mother.

A student reported Thursday that his Volkswagen Bug's stereo speakers were taken while parked in the garage at 1140 N. Park Ave.

The man told university police he parked on the first floor at 4 p.m. Sept. 16 and when he returned two days later, the two boxed Boston Acoustic speakers were gone.

There was no evidence of forced entry, but the student reported finding a white powdery substance on the front seats and floor board.

The speakers were valued at $1,200.

A delivery truck driver allegedly tried to run over a student bicyclist Friday after he was reportedly upset the man's wife had parked in a loading zone on East Second Street near Olive Avenue, police reports stated.

The man told university police his wife had parked next to the no parking zone about 8:50 a.m. so he could unload his bicycle.

He then told police a man driving a delivery truck started yelling that he could not park there.

The student told police he yelled an obscenity at the man, who reportedly revved the truck's engine and drove toward the student, knocking him off the bicycle, reports stated. He had a scrape on his left leg from the fall.

According to reports, the man got out of the truck and tried to start a fight.

The student told police he took off on his bicycle due to the man's size.

Police contacted a company supervisor who said his employee's story was different than the student's, but he would suspend the man from work until the matter was resolved.

The student told police he believed the man had tried to run him over.

A student reported Friday she was approached by a man wanting to take her photograph near Park Avenue and North Campus Drive.

The woman told university police the man was in his 50s, said he was a photographer and wanted to know if she wanted to pose for him.

According to reports, he claimed he had applied for a job with university police and that he was a teacher.

The man asked the student if she would meet him at the library later that night so he could show her some of his work, reports stated.

The student told the man she would bring her boyfriend and he replied he would prefer if she came with her roommate, reports stated.

According to reports, the man commented on the student's beauty several times during the encounter.

Someone stole a Chevrolet pickup truck from the lot south of Arizona-Sonora Residence Hall between 8 a.m. Wednesday and about 1:30 p.m. Saturday.

A student told university police he had parked his tan four-wheel drive truck at the south end of lot #5022 near 910 E. Fifth St.

Police found broken glass in the parking lot suspected to be from the driver's side window.

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