Police Report: Meds, drugs and videotape
October 2, 2006
Choking hazard
Sept. 2
A verbal exchange at a Real Salt Lake soccer game escalated to the point where one person lunged at another and grabbed the second person’s neck. Charges are pending.
Man off-board
Sept. 4
An officer was dispatched to the University Village on a report of snow boarders using a stair railing as a riding surface. Seven people were cited for criminal trespass. They had videotaped themselves riding the rail; the tape was seized and will be used as evidence against them.
Cookie monster
Sept. 5
A man reported that someone had stolen his food from a refrigerator in the Architecture Building.
Check on it
Sept. 6
A resident of the University Village sold a couch through an online classified Web site. The buyer of the couch sent the seller a check for $3,000 for a $675 purchase, asking that the seller deposit the check and wire back the difference. The seller did as asked and then discovered that the check was drawn on a closed account.
Signed sin
Sept. 13
A signed print of a painting titled “O Jerusalem” was stolen from the LDS Institute of Religion. The framed print was bolted to a wall in the main foyer. The thief removed the print and left a smaller unsigned version of the same painting in its place.
Missing meds
Sept. 14
A student living in student housing reported that someone stole her prescription medication from her medicine cabinet.
In a bad light
Sept. 15
Three projectors were stolen from the Officer’s Club near student housing.
There’s no place like home
Sept.16
A U hospital security officer found a man sleeping in the Widstoe building. The officer recognized the man and knew he had been previously warned about sleeping in campus buildings. The security officer called for a police officer, who then arrested the man for trespassing.
Flight nurse reaches low point
Sept. 20
University police received a report that an AirMed nurse may have been diverting drugs from patients for his personal benefit.
DrunkFest
Sept. 21
A man taking part in RedFest activities was arrested for intoxication and illegal alcohol consumption.
Compiled by Ana Breton
