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.