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Police Beat: Oct. 8

By Michael Merriman

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Published: Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Updated: Wednesday, October 7, 2009

University reports items stolen from fenced yard on campus

University of Arizona Police Department officers responded to the university’s warehouse at 1145 S. Warren Ave. on Sept. 28 at 9:25 a.m. in reference to a burglary. Upon arrival, officers met with the university employee who reported the incident. According to the employee, sometime between Sept. 25 at 5:30 p.m. and Sept. 28 at 9:25 a.m., an unknown person or persons stole a Sony VCR and an unknown brand digital video multiplexer, valued at $50 each, from the open bed of a university-owned pickup truck parked in the fenced yard on Warren Avenue. According to police, no damage was done to the vehicle and no signs of forced entry were found in or around the fenced lot. Police have no suspects or witnesses at this time.

Sucks to be the friend who lent him the car

UAPD officers were on patrol in the area of Second Street and Park Avenue on Sept. 28 at 2:25 p.m. when they observed a white Honda improperly displaying an Arizona license plate. Officers initiated a traffic stop and made contact with the driver. Police informed the driver of the reason for the stop and were able to identify him using his driver’s license. A records check of the man revealed a license suspension. The driver’s license also showed that the man was required to be driving a vehicle with an ignition interlock device, which he was not. According to the driver, he had borrowed the car from a friend. The man was cited on charges of driving on a suspended license and operating a vehicle without a required ignition interlock device. The vehicle was towed for a mandatory 30-day impound and the driver was released on scene.

Man reports license plate switch-a-roo

UAPD officers met with a man in the parking lot of the UAPD station at 1852 E. 1st St. on Sept. 28 at 3:49 p.m. in reference to a stolen vehicle license plate. According to the man, sometime between Aug. 31 and Sept. 25, the license plate that belonged on his son’s Chevrolet Cobalt was stolen. The man claimed that on Sept. 10 he had received a citation in the mail from the Department of Public Safety’s Photo Enforcement Division that showed a Chevrolet Malibu displaying his license plate on Aug. 31. The man called his son to confirm that the correct license plate was on the Cobalt. The son reported that it was not. While waiting to figure out exactly what to do about the situation, the man’s son called back on Sept. 25 to report that he had discovered that the correct license plate had been returned to the Cobalt and the plate that had been put on the Cobalt was removed.  Police ran a check on the plate that had been switched and discovered that it had originally been registered to a Chevrolet Camaro but had been indefinitely suspended. The man and his son had no idea who would have switched the license plates on the Cobalt and police have no suspects or witnesses at this time.

Woman claims to have been drugged at Phi Kappa Psi party

UAPD officers met with a woman at the UAPD station on Sept. 29 at 10:39 a.m. in reference to suspicious activity. According to the woman, she believed she had been drugged with GHB, the “date rape drug.” She told police that while on Facebook.com on Sept. 26, she had learned of a party at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house. She attended the party at 1011 N. Tyndall Ave. at approximately 9:30 that evening. The woman claimed that on arrival, a fraternity member she knew gave her a drink. Later, an unidentified man gave her another drink. The woman told police she had assumed both drinks contained vodka, as they were both colorless. The woman reported that at approximately 11:30 p.m., she had begun feeling “overly flirtatious.” The woman also claimed to have experienced a loss of both hearing and bladder control. The woman told officers that her friend had walked her back to her residence at the Arizona-Sonora Residence Hall at approximately 1 a.m. on Sept. 27, at which point she vomited. The woman’s friends later told her that between the hours of 11:30 p.m. on Sept. 26 and 1 a.m. on Sept. 27, she had made out with three different men at the party. The next day, the woman looked up GHB online and believed she had experience its symptoms. She also told police that she had attempted to contact the fraternity president and had left several messages at the fraternity, but had received no replies. She told officers she was reporting the incident to document the event in the hopes of preventing any future sexual assaults.

Comments

36 comments
a thought
Tue Nov 10 2009 15:55
Wow. . .it is so easy to blame the girl in this scenario but let's think about it. . .I don't know many people who would actually call the cops unless they really thought something was wrong. Why would she get the authorities involved if she simply felt bad about letting her "skank side" out - as one genius so intelligently posted earlier. . .I mean come on. It's easier to sweep this one under the rug and ignore the real issue here - you need to be responsible no matter where you are. Both as a frat hosting a party and as a chick attending a frat party. Be responsible. I'm not blaming anyone because I was not there - I am merely a third party reading the paper. But logically. . .what sounds more feasible here - some drunk dude slips a date rape drug in a girls drink; or some "skank" feels so terrible about letting her "skank side" out that she feels it necessary to involve the police, frat president, and inevitably the public in what appears to be a very embarrassing, private matter. . .the latter sounds like an awful lot of trouble and effort for one simple drunken evening.
My name
Fri Nov 6 2009 13:08
FUNNIEST ARTICLE EVER!!!
Became "overly flirtatious"... made out with 3 guys...

Sounds like your typical drunk girl, who may then have regrets, who has no conscience, and wants to send random guys to jail.

Your name
Tue Oct 13 2009 02:19
So apparently drinking has become the issue. If you drink you can expect to get raped? If you choose to go to a bar, and wear a mini skirt, it gives the right to some drunken looser to grab your assets? If you go to a party, because you want to meet people, and drink socially, then it is okay that some guy will take advantage of you? I'm sorry, I think that freshman or not, the girl just went to the party. Good thing she had friends with her, that took her home before something worse happened! Whatever happened to common decency? What kind of MAN needs to drug drunk girls to get laid? My guess, these boys have serious performance issues.... not even the drunk ones want them!!
Your name
Mon Oct 12 2009 12:55
What makes you think the girl was a freshman and not an upper classman?
Your name
Mon Oct 12 2009 11:54
I think the wildcat needs to disable comments on this.
Gerald
Sun Oct 11 2009 12:54
Greek Life is conducive to more negativity than positivity. Your required philanthropic activities do not make up for the girl you roofied and took advantage of. The ability to say you're a D Chi, or a Beta does not therefore upgrade you to god-status. And, the only reason you're liked is because you're a gateway to psychoactives (alcohol, pharmaceuticals, etc.)

The entire concept of Greek Life is hilarious.

Your name
Fri Oct 9 2009 23:22
why are people blaming greek life for supplying underage girls with alcohol? I have plenty of friends who go to schools without greek life, and they would drink every weekend at house and apartment parties before they were 21. If there is no greek life, all that means is more drunk driving for freshman living in the dorms who venture far off campus to the seasons, starr pass or a house party. underage kids will drink no matter what.

Would you rather have kids drink at identifiable frat parties or at a sketchy RANDOM house party in TUCSON? someone was just shot to death next to a house i partied at earlier this year.....so safe, right?

Vic
Fri Oct 9 2009 18:38
I can't believe some people are blaming this on the girl, as if she did anything that other people hadn't done; drink. You can't blame someone for getting drugged, that's ignorant. You should all be more worried about the one who was drugging girls. Date rape is serious. Just because a person is passed out or too drugged up to say no, doesn't make it stop being rape. Drugging other people without their knowing is pretty serious on it's own as well.
A real girl
Fri Oct 9 2009 16:07
Chick got drunk and her skank side came out. Yes I'm sure the guys were tools..live and let live. Who hasn't had a skank drunk freshman moment?
Your name
Fri Oct 9 2009 15:56
This is a serious incident.

The Wildcat needs to pull this out of Police Beat, investigate, and write an actual story about it.

Also, Phi Kappa Psi members need to have a meeting about this incident, along with the stolen papers, and decide what a MATURE response will be. Shelton and Kowalski are serious about cracking down on frats - and these two incidents could mean the end of that PKP chapter...unless they come forward and are serious about cleaning up their acts!

Class of 82
Fri Oct 9 2009 14:47
Aha, the motive.
Your Dumb
Fri Oct 9 2009 14:41
If Phi Psi is filled with rapists and losers, why do they have 678 confirmed guests for tomorrow's party? Don't be angry cause your too fat or ugly to get in.
Kam
Fri Oct 9 2009 14:36
If she was drugged at Phi Kappa Psi, why is she listed as attending the next Phi Psi party on Saturday? Answer me that.
Kat
Fri Oct 9 2009 14:25
Phi Psi is so stupid, stealing the papers just brought more attention to the Police report, that most people would have just glanced over otherwise. Now everyone knows about it.

oh and Elizabeth, The Wildcat was just publishing what was in a police report, nothing more, so lay off

Your name
Fri Oct 9 2009 13:56
and also, those guys never card. they'd give alcohol to an eighth grade if she was hot enough. why isn't that an issue?
margaret
Fri Oct 9 2009 13:53
honestly, it's people like you who make girls scared to report things like that. telling them that it probably didn't happen or that they're trying to justify what they did is rude and inconsiderate. if it happened to you and someone told you that you were lying it probably wouldn't make you feel too good either. also, if you knew the brothers of phi psi, what their place looked like, or what kind of parties they had, you wouldn't put it past any of them to drug someone. even if it was just for fun and they weren't looking to get with a girl.
Your name
Fri Oct 9 2009 13:52
So this freshman girl goes out to her first college party, gets trashed and realizes she's a slut when she's drunk. but no. she had to be drugged. this girl should do everyone a favor and not drink when she goes out. save everyone the trouble of another drunk skank please
HAYB
Fri Oct 9 2009 10:01
How can you accuse the Wildcat as using this report as slander? It's an official police report. Maybe the fratboys should stop majoring in family and consumer sciences and get a real education.

Though, the report could be unture, fratboys tend to "stay in the family".

Elizabeth
Fri Oct 9 2009 03:27
Why go accusing phi psi of things they didn't do? The wildcat shouldn't publish accusations until they are proven to be true.
wilber
Fri Oct 9 2009 00:37
Pretty pathetic of Phi Psi, do girls actually even go over there? There dilapidated excuse for a frat house is in such a sketchy location, not even on campus. What self respecting girl would rather journey through the bowels of Tucson for a bunch of washed up wana be frat guys that had to join Phi Psi because they didnt get bids from other houses?

One would think that because these Phi Psis suck at looking good and acting normal they would go out of their way to be gracious and courteous hosts to ANY girl they are lucky enough to have stumble into their nastiness. Guess not. Keep it classy tucson

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