Rollin’ J’s at Spring Fling

A UAPD officer was checking the parking lot at the Rillito Downs at 4502 N. First Ave. while working at UA Spring Fling when he noticed a strong odor of marijuana coming from a section of cars parked in the southeast part of the lot.

The officer found two men sitting in a white Acura that was in the same area as the marijuana smell. Both were identified by their Arizona driver’s licenses.

While speaking with the driver, the officer could immediately smell marijuana coming from inside the car and noticed the driver’s eyes were watery and bloodshot. He was also moving very slowly.

Both men were asked to get out of the car and stand in front of the Acura.

When asked what they were doing inside the car, the driver said they were just talking and were waiting to go back inside the event. He said that he did not know why there was an odor of marijuana coming from his car and that he had only been smoking a cigarette in the car.

When the officer searched the car, he found a small plastic baggie with marijuana inside the glove box and a package of rolling papers in the center console. There was also a lighter behind the drivers’s seat.

The driver told the officer that the baggie and wrapping papers were his and that he had smoked the marijuana before picking up his friend. He also said that he did not use pipes to smoke, and he didn’t have any other paraphernalia.

The officer then spoke with the passenger of the car. He said that he had not smoked any marijuana that night, and they had only been talking while in the car.

The officer did not see any symptoms of marijuana use coming from the passenger.

The driver was cited and released for possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

The bag of marijuana, the rolling papers and the lighter were all placed into property as evidence. The driver was also told not to drive his car.

‘Smelly Proof’ earns man a ticket

A University of Arizona Police Department officer was on patrol at the intersection of Fourth Street and Highland Avenue Sunday at 11:20 a.m. when he performed a traffic stop on a driver who failed to stop at a stop sign.

As the officer asked the man for his license, insurance and registration, he told the man the reason for the stop, and the man said, “Oh, the stop sign — I didn’t see that.”

While talking with the man, the officer could smell an odor of marijuana coming from the car.

The man told the officer, “No, I don’t carry that stuff in the car anymore since the last time I got a ticket for it.”

He also told the officer that the last time he had smoked was three or four days prior.

The man told the officer that he could search his car, and the officer found a small plastic baggie labeled, “Smelly Proof.” When the officer opened the bag, he could smell marijuana.

The officer asked the man if the car was his and if he knew the plastic baggie was inside.

The man said that he thought he had cleaned his car out completely after he got his last ticket and that he must have missed the baggie that was stuffed in the pocket behind the passenger seat.

He also stated that the bag was his and that there used to be a smoking pipe inside the bag. The man told the officer that even though he knows marijuana is illegal, he smokes it anyway.

The man asked the officer not to arrest him because he had just lost his job and was worried about paying fines and having to be on probation.

The officer said, “What you’re doing is illegal, and I can’t let you go without arresting you.”

The man was cited and released on scene for possession of drug paraphernalia and failure to stop at a stop sign.

Night turns to day for disoriented dude

A UAPD officer was called to East Coast Subs at the intersection of Ninth Street and Park Avenue after an employee reported finding a man passed out next to the wall of the restaurant Saturday at 9:07 a.m.

The employee told the officer he had seen the man smoking a “joint” and when he told the man to leave, he refused. He said he was waiting for a concert across the street at The Rock and thought it was Friday night.

When the officer went to speak to the man, he tried to stand up but could not keep his balance.

A partially smoked marijuana joint fell out of the man’s pocket when he went to sit down. The officer asked for identification, and when the man stood up to take out his wallet, he almost fell over. He then sat on the joint and would not move when the officer asked him to.

When the officer got a hold of the marijuana the man denied that it fell from his pocket and said he didn’t know what it was.

The man was searched and the officer found a brown cigar and a silver flask in his pocket.

A records check showed the man was 18.

He was cited and released for possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and for being a minor in possession of alcohol.

Men found with ‘medicinal’ marijuana

A University of Arizona Police Department officer responded to the Tyndall Avenue Parking Garage on Friday at 11:34 p.m. after someone reported that the smell of marijuana was coming from the top level.

The officer found five men standing near the southeast staircase on the top level of the garage and could smell burning marijuana.

The officer had the men sit against a wall while he searched the area. He found three small cigars with burnt marijuana inside.

The men admitted to the officer that had been smoking the cigars before the officer arrived and that the marijuana was owned by all five of them.

The officer also found an empty prescription pill bottle near the men, in which the marijuana had been. The bottle had a label from California that read for medicinal use only.

All five men were arrested for unlawful possession of marijuana and were cited and released. The officer also filled out Code of Conduct referrals for the Dean of Students for each of the students.

The 2.5 grams of marijuana and pill bottle were placed into UAPD property as evidence.

Man confesses to wrong crime

A University of Arizona Police Department officer arrived to the Pueblo de la Cienga Residence Hall on March 29 at 1:53 a.m. after a student reported a theft.

The man told the officer that between nine and 12 books were taken from his desk along with a picture frame, two pictures and two envelopes. He said that he left the room on March 28 at 3 p.m. and when he returned on the next day at 1:15 a.m. he saw that the items were gone.

The man said that the items were all gifts from his ex-girlfriend and that she is in Tucson visiting from Yuma. He stated that his ex-girlfriend had recently met his roommate and thought maybe his roommate took the items and gave them to the woman.

When the officer got into the dorm room, he woke up the roommate. The officer asked him if he knew why he was there and the man stated, “I think so.”

The officer told him to say what he thought he was there for and the man said, “I have something illegal in my room.” The man told the officer that he had marijuana in the room.

The officer asked the man to get the marijuana and turn it over. The man pulled a prescription bottle out from a storage container beneath his bag and handed it to the officer.

The man told the officer that he smokes marijuana occasionally, but never on campus. He said he bought it for $80 from a man beneath Arizona Stadium. He was cited and released for possession of marijuana.

When asked about the ex-girlfriend of his roommate and the stolen items, the man said that he let the woman into the room because she said she wanted to return a baseball hat and get some of her belongings.

He said that he did not think the woman was doing anything wrong because she said the items were hers.

The officer told the man whose belongings were stolen that the woman took the items. The man said he would have to think about whether or not he wanted to press charges.

The prescription bottle with the marijuana inside was placed into UAPD property as evidence and the total weight of the marijuana was 12.5 grams.

A Dean of Students Code of Conduct referral was also completed for the man with the marijuana.

Man smokes marijuana to avoid Xanax

A UAPD officer arrived at the Tyndall parking garage on Monday at 5:04 p.m. after getting a report that there were people smoking marijuana in a beige Ford Explorer.

The officer found the car there, and when he walked up the passenger side door of the car, he could smell a strong odor of marijuana coming from the open window.

Both the passenger and the driver were taken from the car and read their rights.

The passenger told the officer, “I smoked a ‘J’ with my friend just briefly. I smoke because of my anxiety and I don’t want to take Xanax.”

The man said there was also a metal grinder in the center console of the car; the grinder and the marijuana were not his.

While the officer was speaking with the man who had been in the driver’s seat, the man said, “My friend and I were just having a smoke.”

The man told the officer that he did not know of a baggie of marijuana that was found in the car and thought that it was in his dorm room. He admitted that the marijuana was his. The metal grinder and pipe found in the car, were also his.

A digital scale, an 8-inch hunting knife and a 4-inch knife were also found in the car.

The passenger admitted to providing rolling papers for the marijuana and he was cited and released for unlawful use of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

The officer asked the driver if he had any other marijuana in his dorm room and the man gave consent to the officer the search the room.

In the room, the officer found a marijuana bud in a plastic baggie and a pair of brass knuckles.

The man was arrested for possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

The knives and brass knuckles were placed into property for safekeeping. The marijuana and all paraphernalia were placed into property as evidence.

The officer sent Code of Conduct referrals to the Dean of Students for both men.

Smokin’ and walkin’

Two UAPD officers were on patrol on Euclid Avenue and Fifth Street on Thursday at 9:10 p.m. when the officer driving could smell marijuana outside of his opened window.

The officers turned around and circled the area until they found the place where the odor smelled the strongest.

The officer saw two women walking east toward Euclid Avenue on Fifth Street. As they passed the women, the officer could see they were smoking.

When the officer parked the car, he could see a plume of smoke trailing the women and one of the women threw an object on the ground and stomped it.

The officer reported that both of the women smelled strongly of marijuana. They both identified themselves with Illinois identification cards.

The woman who had thrown the marijuana cigarette on the ground told the officer that she was visiting a friend and got the marijuana from an unknown man. She walked with the other woman up Fifth Street so they could smoke it.

The other woman said that the woman with whom she was walking was a friend of her roommate and she did not want the woman to walk alone, so she walked with her while she smoked. She told the officer that she had only had “one puff” of the cigarette.

Both of the women were cited and released for possession of marijuana. A one-inch long marijuana cigarette was placed into property as evidence.

He just ‘had to pick up his lady’ … and get high

A UAPD officer on patrol Monday at 8:24 p.m. noticed a green van with an expired registration and an exposed back brake light.

The officer stopped the van near the intersection of Euclid Avenue and Broadway Boulevard and identified the driver by an Arizona Identification Card.

The officer could smell marijuana coming from the car as the driver told the officer that he did not have a driver’s license.

A records check showed the man’s license had been suspended since 1998.

While one officer searched the van, the man told another UAPD officer he had smoked a joint 30 minutes before being pulled over and had marijuana in the car.

The man said he bought “two dime bags of weed from a man in his teens near 22nd Street and Park Avenue, near a school.”

The man also told the officer he knew his license was not valid, but he “had to pick up his lady.”

While the man was answering questions, the officer searching the van found two bags of marijuana between the driver’s seat and door.

The man was arrested for possession of marijuana and driving with a suspended license. He was cited and released on scene.

The bags of marijuana were put into UAPD property as evidence and sent to the Department of Public Safety for testing. The van was also towed for a 30-day mandatory impound.

Skateboarder found with marijuana

A UAPD officer assisted a community service officer on Friday at 5:50 p.m. after a man was reportedly caught doing skateboard tricks on UA property.

The community officer told the UAPD officer the name the man had given him, but the man told the officer that he had lied about his name because he did not think the community officer was a real cop.

Once he got the man’s real name, the officer ran a records check and saw the man had a warrant for arrest from Tucson Police Department for possession of marijuana and paraphernalia.

The man was placed under arrest for false reporting to law enforcement and for the warrant.

While the officer was searching the man, he found a small wooden case in the man’s shirt pocket.

The man told the officer that inside the case was marijuana and a small metal smoking pipe. The metal pipe had burnt marijuana residue on it. The man had 1.2 grams of marijuana.

After the officer found the items, the man was additionally charged with possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

The man said that he was given the marijuana and the case by a friend but would not say by whom.

The marijuana, case and pipe were placed into UAPD property as evidence. The man was transported to and booked into the Pima County Jail.

Smokers burned during purse return

A University of Arizona Police Department officer went to the UA Main Library on March 10 at 9:20 a.m. to pick up a purse that belonged to a UA student an employee had found.

After checking records for the woman to whom the purse belonged, an address was found and the officer drove to her Campus Crossings apartment to let her know she could pick the purse up from UAPD.

When the officer got to the hallway the room was in he could smell a strong odor of marijuana coming from either the woman’s room or the one across from hers.

After the officer knocked on the woman’s apartment door, a man answered and told the officer that the woman who owned the purse did not live there, and it was only himself and his girlfriend that had been living there for two months.

The officer could tell that he had just woken the man up. He asked if the man had any marijuana in the room and he said, “Yeah, a little.”

The man went back into the room and got two small bags with marijuana inside and gave them to the officer.

The man was then told the man to put on a shirt and shoes and get his identification.

The man was identified by an Arizona driver’s license and cited and released for possession of marijuana.

At the UAPD main station, the officer weighed the marijuana. The first bag had 1.4 grams and the second bag had 3.3 grams.

The marijuana was placed into property as evidence and a Code of Conduct referral was sent to the Dean of Students for the man.