By John Brown
Arizona Daily Wildcat
January 14, 1998

Police Beat

Two video monitors valued at nearly $1,400 were taken last week from two lab rooms at the College of Medicine, 1501 N. Campbell Ave.

The lab coordinator told university police the 13-inch Sony monitors were taken between Jan. 5 and 7. There were no signs of forced entry.

The coordinator told police the labs are locked at night but accessible during the day and that several students and staff have keys to the rooms.

The room was not used Jan. 6, police reports stated.

The monitors were valued at $695 each.

Two cars were burglarized and their stereos stolen last week in Lot 5065, at the southeast corner of East Fourth Street and North Euclid Avenue.

A female employee told university police she parked her 1991 Toyota Corolla at 8:30 a.m. Jan. 6 and returned about 6 p.m. to find the driver's side window pried out and her stereo missing.

The value of the Pioneer compact disc player was unknown.

A second female employee parked her 1993 Honda Accord at 7:25 a.m. the same day and came back at 4 p.m. to find her $300 JVC stereo gone.

The driver's side window was again the thief's mode of entry into the vehicle, police reports stated.

Two 19-year-old students were cited on multiple drug charges early Monday at Coronado Residence Hall, 822 E. Fifth St.

A report of a marijuana odor prompted university police to visit the students' dorm room about 12:40 a.m.

When the officer knocked on the door, a female resident said, "Hold on a minute, let me get dressed," police reports stated.

Hall resident Marcy E. McCall then opened the door and told the officer he could search the room, police reports stated.

Under the bathroom sink, the officer found a metal container with 4 grams of a "green leafy substance" and a smoke-filled toilet paper roll stuffed with a dryer sheet, police reports stated.

McCall's roommate, Anna R. Roe, then gave the officer a glass pipe with residue on it. Both students told police the suspected contraband was theirs, police reports stated.

McCall and Roe were cited on possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia charges and released.

A UA student was arrested Jan. 6 after a Parking and Transportation Services official discovered the parking permit in the student's car was a phony.

University police met the vehicle's owner, Kary E. Thompson, at Lot 2029, near East Helen Street and North Warren Avenue, after the employee found the invalid parking permit.

Thompson told police she got the permit "a couple days ago" from "a friend," reports stated.

She told police she "didn't think it would be fair" to tell the officer her friend's name, adding, "If anybody should be at fault, it should be me for using it," police reports stated.

Thompson told police she didn't pay for the permit and that it looked fake, reports stated.

Thompson was cited on a charge of theft of services and released.

An employee called university police last week to report the theft of his ink pen from an office at Biological Sciences West, 1041 E. Lowell St.

The man told university police he left the Sanford ball point pen on the corner of his desktop Jan. 7 at 10:45 p.m. and returned the next morning to find it missing.

According to police reports, the man believed a custodian swiped the blue and purple pen since the trash had been emptied and his office has a "special key."

The pen was valued at $8.

An employee reported Monday that four ladders were taken from the roofs of UA-owned vans parked at 1072 N. Highland Ave.

According to police reports, three 6-foot ladders and one 8-foot ladder were taken between Jan. 3 and 5 from the top of four separate vehicles.

The value of the ladders was unknown.

A 23-year-old woman crashed her car into a campus fire hydrant Friday after reportedly being startled when she spilled a drink in her lap.

The woman was making a left turn onto East Fourth Street from North Park Avenue about noon when she was lost control of her Volvo sedan and struck the hydrant on Fourth Street's south side.

Minimal damage was reported to the car and hydrant. No citation was issued.

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