Underwear theft thwarted
A man tried to steal a female student’s underwear at Benchmark Plaza Building 821, a student apartment building.
The student was sleeping in her apartment Friday night when a noise woke her. She used her cell phone as a flashlight to see a man dressed in all black on the floor. She screamed.
He grabbed and pushed her before running out of the apartment. She called U Police, but he was long gone before they arrived.
Officers noted that the girl’s dresser drawer was open. They concluded he was trying to steal her underwear when she woke up and interrupted his crime.
The man is described as tall with very short or no hair.
Dead man on TRAX train
A TRAX conductor found a dead man on his train when he came to the end of the line near University Hospital.
The conductor came to his last stop at about 3:20 p.m Monday, July 20. As he went from the front of the train to the back to prepare it for his trip back down the hill, he noticed the man slouched in his seat, Utah Transit Authority spokesman Gerry Carpenter said. Salt Lake City Fire was on the scene within a few minutes.
“He had already begun CPR when they arrived,” in case there was any chance the man might still be alive, Carpenter said. The U Police Department identified him as Theron D. Read, 44, who died from an unidentified medical condition.
U Police are investigating the death. U Police and Salt Lake City Fire were not immediately available for comment.
Back-to-school shopping
Thieves made off with bikes, iPhones and the U sign’s letters in separate events during the last days of Summer Semester.
It was reported to U Police that most of the letters from the sign at the base of Presidents’ Circle had been stolen. That morning, the sign read “Ivy of Utah.”
From Aug. 4 to Aug. 5, U police responded to eight theft cases around campus, everywhere from Presidents’ Circle to the Resident Halls. Four bikes, three iPhones and a cell phone were stolen. A weed whacker was also reported stolen from a storage shed near the Medical Towers student apartment buildings.