Police Best!: The Best of Police Beat 2018-2019
By Vanessa OntiverosFrom stolen golf carts to drug busts and naive social media users, here are this year's most outrageous Police Beats. Read more
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Police Beat 12/11/2019: Winter Blunderland
Snowball fights are a classic winter art form. But I guess when you live in Tucson, petty criminals have to settle for chucking ice at people. Read more
Police Beat 12/4/2019: Shots for shots
These were not the sorts of shots students are known for taking on the basketball court. Two University of Arizona Police Department officers arrived at the Campus Recreation Center at around 8 p.m. on Nov. 14 after receiving reports of students drinking alcohol at the Rec Center’s basketball court. Read more
Police Beat 11/27/2019: Thanksgiving stuffing
Honestly, it’s amazing that Police Beat has gone at least two years without an entry about a couple (possibly) having sex in the library. But now that streak is broken. Read more
Police Beat 11/20/2019: Edgar Allen Go Away
While he nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, as if some masked man gently rapping, rapping at his dorm room door. “’Tis that visitor,” he muttered, “tapping at my dorm room door. Only him — again — and nothing more.” Read more
Police Beat 11/13/2019: Red blood, yellow paint and underage blues
Paintball is only fun if every player has a fair shot, but shooting paintballs at two students on Tuesday night is less fun and games and more assault. Read more
Police Beat 11/7/2019: Invasion of the Banner Snatchers
It was invasion of the banner snatchers at the Sigma Kappa Sorority house, with a book of sorority rituals almost being lost in the process. Read more
Police Beat 10/23/2019: This dorm ain't big enough for the two of us
Take a long-standing feud between two roommates, sprinkle in an argument about some misplaced food and a dash of late-night tension, and you have a recipe for disaster. Read more
Police Beat 10/16/2019: The Next Generation
Some people seem to develop completely different personalities when they drink and one University of Arizona student apparently embraced his inner brawlin’ sailor. Read more
Police Beat 10/9/2019: What's in the box?
Good things rarely come in suspicious packages as one student learned after she received two of them from halfway across the world. Read more
Police Beat 10/2/2019: Vehicular Crime Blotter
Halloween may be around the corner, but no ghost story can compete with the “creepy” stories one passenger heard from her rideshare driver. Read more
Police Beat 9/25/2019: Get REC-ked
While college does not have any sort of official dress code, the gym has an unofficial one. People expect to see running shorts, yoga pants, T-shirts and sneakers. No one would think to wear, say, a ski mask. Except this guy. Read more
Police Beat 9/18/2019: Budding Heads
Offering help to a resident assistant is a nice gesture, but if that help is green and leafy and comes in a plastic bag, students may be better off keeping that offer to themselves. Read more
