By John Brown
Arizona Daily Wildcat
December 4, 1997

Police Beat

A student found a bullet hole in the side of her parked car early Tuesday outside the Communication building, 1131 E. Second St.

The student parked her 1992 Plymouth in lot #GA-1 3039 about 4:30 p.m. Monday and returned about 12:30 a.m. to find the bullet hole in the car's front left fender, according to police reports.

The student told police she was certain it was not there when she parked and has no idea who may have shot at her car, police reports stated.

Officers concluded the .22 caliber bullet was lodged somewhere under the dashboard.

University police went to a student's room Tuesday after he reported that his ex-girlfriend was bothering him at Arizona-Sonora Resident Hall, 910 E. Fifth St.

When officers arrived about 10 p.m., they asked the 17-year-old female student to go out to the hallway, police reports stated.

Once she left, the male student told officers that he had requested an injunction on his former partner because of her unruly conduct, police reports stated.

According to police reports, the male student told police the girl had entered his room while he was sleeping on several occasions to slap and scratch him during the past two weeks.

According to police reports, the Pima County Sheriff's Department had made two previous attempts to serve the injunction on the student.

University police told the girl she was not permitted to talk to the student, in person, on the phone or by e-mail.

For some students, apparently, nothing is too extreme to get their MTV.

University police sent an 18-year-old student into the dean of students' diversion program after two residence assistants said they found him last week trying to steal cable service for his Arizona-Sonora Residence Hall room, 910 E. Fifth St.

The RAs told police they were making rounds on the dorm's sixth floor Nov. 24 about midnight when they saw a man close a custodial closet door and walk away, according to police reports.

When the male RA opened the door, he found another man, a male student, toting several tools and standing next to an open cable junction box, police reports stated.

The RA told police when he asked him what he was doing, he first replied, "Nothing."

Then he said, "What does it look like?"

The student later told police he had overheard other residents say that they had rigged free cable up to their rooms and this had prompted him to grab his tools when he saw the open door.

Officers found that the cable box's lock had been cut, but reported no other damage.

Police could not find the other residents.

UA employees called university police Tuesday after they caught a man attempting to steal two checkbooks from the Gould-Simpson Building, 1040 E. Fourth St.

When officers arrived about 5:30 p.m. the man was gone.

A graduate student told officers he saw the man on the sixth floor put one of the checkbooks in a cooler he was carrying, according to police reports.

The student followed the man into a west-side stairwell where he confronted him about the checkbook, police reports stated. He reportedly told the man he wouldn't let him go until he returned the items.

The man complied and left.

A research scientist told police the man fit the description of a thief who has reportedly been swiping wallets from the Biological Sciences West building, 1041 E. Lowell St.(see related story)

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