By John Brown and Tom Collins
Arizona Daily Wildcat
January 22, 1998

Police Beat

Two Tucson men were arrested on drug charges Sunday after university police reportedly found them with a bong at the smoke-filled Speed Clean Coin Wash, 1624 E. Sixth St.

Officers arrived to the campus-area coin-operated laundry about 11:10 p.m. to find Charles Morris Zencius, 22, and Jeremy Daniel Adams, 19, both of general delivery addresses, next to a red bong sitting on a table, reports stated. No one else was at the laundry facility.

Both men appeared to be heavily intoxicated and officers detected a strong odor of marijuana, police reports stated.

Both reportedly told officers, "Man, we're stoned."

Adams also told police that he was high on heroin, reports stated.

Zencius told police he owned the plastic bong, which was filled with suspected marijuana.

Officers conducted a "pat down" and found a metal pipe in Adams' pants, reports stated.

Adams and Zencius were cited on marijuana and drug paraphernalia possession charges and released at the scene.

A juvenile probation officer came out of a campus-area restaurant last week to find two men stealing a handgun from his car.

The man told police that on Jan. 16, he parked his 1995 Honda Civic in Lot 5079, near North Fremont and East Lowell Street, and went to eat at a nearby restaurant.

When the man came out just after 9 p.m., he spotted the men inside his car, police reports stated.

The man told university police that as he approached the men, they got into a turquoise two-door sedan that fled west on Lowell Street toward North Park Avenue. The fleeing vehicle, which may have been a Pontiac Grand Am, had one to two other passengers, reports stated.

The man told police that the thieves took his Colt government-issue .38-caliber handgun and Columbia ski jacket, the values of which were unknown. The car's driver-side window was broken during the theft.

In a possibly related incident, an officer taking the report in the lot was approached by a man who said he had found a purse in the back seat of his vehicle.

University police soon received a call from a female student whose purse had been stolen from her car while parked near East Fourth Street and North Tyndall Avenue.

The student told police that her 1962 Dodge sedan was burglarized through a broken passenger window between 6:50 p.m. and 9:08 p.m.

The officer returned the purse to the student, who said her bank card and pager were missing.

University police cited an 18-year-old student on liquor and false identification charges early Saturday after they saw him standing with his pants down in the parking lot outside Apache-Santa Cruz Residence Hall, 610 N. Highland Ave., police reports stated.

Police cited hall resident Kaveh Najafi on charges of minor consuming liquor and possession of a fictitious license about 1:35 a.m., police reports stated.

During questioning, Najafi gave police a Nevada driver's license, but a computer check revealed no record of the license.

Najafi told police the license was fake and that he had been drinking at a bar on North Fourth Avenue, reports stated.

A male student was roused in his room at Yuma Residence Hall Sunday by a phone call from a man with a with a vulgar question.

The student told university police he received the call at the dorm, 1107 E. North Campus Drive, at 6:34 a.m.

The caller, the student told police, sounded like an intoxicated man.

"Are you naked?" the man reportedly asked.

The student told police that he hung up when heard the question, and that he did not recognize the man's voice.

A UA employee called university police last Thursday to report that a cadaver bag had been vandalized at the Chemistry and Biological Sciences building, 1340 E. University Blvd.

The employee told police that the bag, which contained a cadaver, had been secured when the lab closed Dec. 12.

When the lab reopened Jan. 8, she said, there was a 15-inch gash near the head of the bag and an empty beer bottle in the lab.

The employee said that only researchers and custodians have keys to the lab.

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