By Alicia A. Caldwell
Arizona Daily Wildcat
October 31, 1997

Police Beat

A female student called university police Wednesday after being followed by a "strange" man outside the Drama & Theater building, 1025 N. Olive Drive.

The student told officers she met the man in September 1995 while eating lunch in the Memorial Student Union, police reports stated.

She reportedly told the man she was a drama major and invited him to a play she was performing in. Police reports stated the student received a card at her then Gila Residence hall room apologizing for missing the play.

The card did not have a return address, police reports stated.

She saw the man again in September, reports stated. She told officers the man waited outside the Drama building for her on Monday and Wednesday mornings and talks to her and sometimes gives her things like newspaper clippings.

The man reportedly told her he wanted to make a musical film with her.

Officers advised the student to tell the man to leave her alone the next time she saw him and to call police again if he continued to follow her.

A university employee called police Wednesday after finding hammer marks on a storage room door in Social Sciences 100, 1143 E. South Campus Drive.

The employee told officers he found the door ajar and a metal vent laying on the floor just after 7 a.m. Wednesday, police reports stated.

Police and the employee found two 25-foot orange extension cords and two or three RCA stereo patch cords missing.

The employee did not touch anything after discovering the damage and called university police immediately. He told officers the outside doors to the room were secure when he arrived at 7 a.m., according to reports.

Police took fingerprints at the scene, reports stated.

The value of the cords were unknown.

A UA Parking and Transportation Services employee called police Monday after an enforcement office notified him of two missing parking meters in lot 3046, at East First Street and North Mountain Avenue.

The enforcement officer reportedly found the meters gone about 12:30 p.m. during a routine check.

Police reports stated the meters were taken with the polls and apparently had been bent at the bases.

The two meters were valued at $350 each.

A male student called university police Monday after finding his Miydia mountain bike missing from a bike rack near Coronado Residence Hall, 822 E. Fifth St.

The student told police he cable locked his bike to the rack Saturday around 1 p.m., reports said.

He reportedly came back to rack Monday around 12:30 p.m. and found the bike missing.

The bike and lock were valued at $375.

A female student called university police Wednesday after discovering someone had been using her stolen credit card.

The student told police she put a zip lock planner on a desk in the Franklin Building, 1011 E. Fifth St., about 5:30 last Thursday, reports stated. She reportedly discovered the card was missing Wednesday around 10 p.m.

According to police reports the card was used twice at the UA Associated Students Bookstore, 1023 E. University Blvd. The amount of the first charge was unknown and the second was $69.56, police reports stated.

Those reports indicated the bookstore has surveillance video and the student wanted to view the tape to see if the person was familiar.

A female student called university police Wednesday after her credit card holder and its contents were stolen from Room 207 in McClelland Hall, 1130 E. Helen St.

The student told officers she put the holder on desk and walked two to five feet away for about two to three minutes, police reports stated. When she returned it was gone.

She reportedly saw a male and female student walk by the desk but did not see them take the holder.

The holder contained a credit card and All Aboard meal plan card.

The card holder was valued at $5.

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