You can run, but you can’t hide

A University of Arizona Police Department officer arrived to the Colonia de la Paz Residence Hall on Wednesday at 12:05 p.m. after a resident assistant reported the smell of marijuana in one of the hallways.

When the officer knocked on the door and said he was a police officer, the RA then yelled to the officer that, from the outside, he could see the men climbing out of the window.

As the men began to run west down Highland Avenue, the officer repeatedly yelled for them to stop. They refused to stop and headed toward the walkway between Villa del Puente and Pueblo de la Cienga Residence Halls.

Another officer was on patrol behind those dorms, so he yelled for the men to stop, and one of them immediately laid on the ground. The other man continued running until he tripped and fell. Both were instantly handcuffed.

The man who lay on the ground refused to identify himself. The officer was able to get the man’s wallet from his front pocket. He noticed that the man smelled like alcohol and had bloodshot eyes.

Inside the wallet, the officer found a UA CatCard, a Connecticut driver’s license, an expired New York driver’s license and two Arizona driver’s licenses. The Connecticut license was real and showed the man to be 18 years old. The first Arizona driver’s license had the picture of a 21-year-old man, but the license number showed that it belonged to an 80-year-old woman.

The officer told the man that he was under arrest. After placing the man under arrest, the officer reached into the man’s other front pocket and found a crumpled piece of paper with marijuana inside.

The RA had been waiting outside the room window, and both he and the officer could see that inside the dorm room was a bottle of tequila and buds of marijuana on the students’ desks.

A resident of the hall reported that a man walking down the hall had run from the same room earlier.

When the officer spoke with the man, the resident said he lived in the room across from the room in which they had been smoking marijuana, and he left when they started smoking and drinking.

The officers got a search warrant for the room by phone at 3:30 a.m. and found a wallet with Zig Zag rolling papers on the desk, a full bottle of Jose Cuervo Especial tequila, two baggies with marijuana buds inside, a glass pipe with burnt residue and a Zong bong with fresh marijuana in its stem.

Both of the men who ran were taken and booked into Pima Country Jail for minor in possession, refusing to provide a lawful name after detainment, possession of marijuana and possession of a fictitious license.