By Bryon Wells
Arizona Daily Wildcat
January 27, 1998

Police Beat

A Tucson woman was arrested on multiple charges early Sunday morning after she reportedly threatened and slapped a university police officer at East Second Street near North Mountain Avenue.

A security officer reported a fight brewing between seven and eight women at the intersection at 2:30 a.m.

An officer arriving to the scene tried to break up the shouting match, and a 27-year-old woman grabbed the officer's arm and slapped him, police reports stated.

The woman then pushed the officer aside and started punching one of the other women, reports stated.

According to reports, the officer used pepper spray to subdue the woman so she could be handcuffed.

The woman continued to resist the officer and began kicking and reportedly shouted, "I didn't do shit, bitch," as he tried to put her in the cruiser, reports stated.

The other people involved in the fight fled the scene during the scuffle between the officer and the woman.

The woman was arrested on charges of assault, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

She was later released to Tucson police after two warrants for her arrest were discovered.

A home run shattered the windshield of a UA employee's car parked near the university baseball field Friday.

The employee returned to his vehicle Friday afternoon to find that its windshield had been shattered by a baseball while parked at North Warren Street and East Sixth Street.

The employee told university police he parked his van in Lot 6097, across Sixth Street from Frank Sancet Field, at 7:30 a.m. and returned at 4 p.m. to find vehicle's windshield broken.

Police reports stated that construction crews working in the area told the man that baseballs had been landing in the lot since the 1 p.m. start of the baseball game.

The employee's van was facing the field's outfield, police reports stated.

A student was arrested on drunken driving charges Friday night after university police stopped her for a traffic violation at North Park Avenue and East Sixth Street.

Police stopped the woman after she made an illegal left turn from Park Avenue onto Sixth Street at 10 p.m., police reports stated.

According to police reports, there was a second female student in the front passenger seat and two Tucson men in the backseat.

While talking to the woman, the officer detected a strong smell of alcohol, an open bottle of vodka in the car, along with three open beer containers, reports stated.

The woman told the officer that the bottle belonged the men in the backseat, but when asked why the number of open containers outnumbered the people in the backseat, another woman told police one of the drinks was hers, reports stated.

Both students were taken to UAPD headquarters where the driver's breath tests resulted in blood alcohol contents of .121 and .110, reports stated.

The driver was cited on charges of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and driving with a blood alcohol content of .10 or higher, then released.

The passenger was cited on charges of possession of alcohol by a minor after the discovery of her age.

University police responded to a report of a stolen vehicle Sunday afternoon, only to find another reported stolen truck in its place at Lot 5072, south of Arizona-Sonora Residence Hall, 910 E. Fifth St.

A Tucson man told police he parked his 1992 Oldsmobile in the lot Saturday afternoon and returned the next day to find broken glass on the ground where his vehicle had been.

The man told police that the car belonged to his parents and was secured with a "clubbing" device when he left it.

While at the scene, police noticed a black Chevy Blazer with a broken passenger side window parked next to where the man's vehicle had been parked.

A check revealed the Blazer was reported stolen from the parking lot of The Outback, 296 N. Stone Ave., at 1 a.m. Sunday morning.

The Blazer was returned to its owner.

The names of those arrested have been withheld from today's Police Beat because of a reporting omission.

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