Women with weed wary of police

Two women were diverted to the Dean of Students office for possession of marijuana on April 17 at 11:38 p.m.

Police responded to the Coronado Residence Hall in reference to the smell of marijuana coming from one of the rooms. When police arrived, the resident assistant on duty escorted them to the hallway where the smell was coming from. They immediately detected the odor.

Police knocked on the door and the two residents inside asked, “Who is it?” Police responded saying that it was the University of Arizona

Police Department and one of the women told them to wait a minute because she was naked. The woman then opened the door and her roommate came out of the bathroom.

The women allowed police to enter their room. Police said that they were there because of the smell of marijuana. Both women said that there was no marijuana in the room.

Police went into the bathroom to check and make sure that no one else was hiding in there. While in there, they saw a clear plastic baggie on the floor of what appeared to be marijuana. They took each of the women into the bathroom separately to ask them about it.

One of the women said that it was not hers, but even though she knew who it belonged to, she would not give up her friend.

The other woman said that she did not recognize the baggie or what was inside of it.

Police asked for permission to search the room. They both refused. One woman told officers she refused because she had “personal items” in her room that she did not want the police to see. The other woman said she did not know of anything else in the room. Police asked once again to search the room, but both women refused to cooperate and denied police access to search the room.

Police took the marijuana so it could be placed into evidence. As they did this, one of the women told officers that the marijuana was half hers and they could search her half of the room.

Both women were referred to the Dean of Students Office for possession of marijuana. [link]