Police Beat

GRAFFITI

A yellow graffiti message reading "Craise" was discovered on the west side loading dock doors of Building B-67 on Monday. Police said the message came from a Magic Marker or paintbrush sometime between Feb. 27 and March 6.

Police discovered three male students writing messages in chalk on sidewalks on the south side of campus at 2 a.m. Monday. The messages were advertisements for a Web site. The students complied with officers' requests that they erase the messages and clean up it up.

THEFT

Food items valued at $100.60 were reported stolen from a freezer on the fourth floor of the Widtsoe Building on Monday.

A male student reported his car stolen from the Deseret Towers parking lot Saturday. The officer responding located the car in a different area of the same parking lot; the student apparently forgot where he had parked.

A female student reported her purse was stolen from her bag while she attended a concert at the de Jong Concert Hall on Friday. The purse was turned in to the concert hall ticket office Tuesday. No items were missing from the purse, and there was no report of credit card fraud.

A Hewlett-Packard laptop computer belonging to a Helaman Halls resident went missing in a delivery mix up March 2. UPS delivered the package to the Helaman Halls front desk; the package, however, bore the name of the student's father. When front desk employees couldn't find the name in their computer system, they returned the package to the UPS employee. UPS now cannot locate the laptop, police said.

A Specialized model P-3 bicycle was stolen from a bike rack north of the Joseph F. Smith Building on Monday. The owner had parked the bike there at 3 p.m., and it was gone by the time he returned about three hours later. The bike, which has a black and white frame with "Specialized" lettering, was valued at $500.

A red Cephas mountain bike belonging to a female student was reported stolen from Wyview Park on Monday. The bike, valued at $250, was locked at the time of the theft. The owner had not checked the bike for about three weeks prior to discovering the theft.

IMPERSONATING AN OFFICER

A female student reported that a man with some kind of badge attempted to stop her in the parking lot of the Creamery on Ninth on Sunday. She did not comply with the request and later reported the incident to BYU Police. Police said the man was not an officer in the BYU or Provo City Police Departments.

OUTSTANDING WARRANT

An officer stopped a motorist on campus for speeding Sunday and discovered the man had an active warrant issued by the Beaver County Justice Court. The man was taken to Provo City Police Department headquarters, where he posted bail of $250 and was released.

DOMESTIC RESPONSE

A female student told police March 2 that another female, not a student, made threats against her after the student ended the two women's friendship, which the other woman apparently did not want to end. Police said the second woman threatened to turn the student into the Honor Code Office for undisclosed reasons.

A female student was cited for domestic violence assault against her roommate March 1 after allegedly scratching the roommate and pulling her arms. The incident was apparently due to ongoing tensions between the two; the student cited was 19.

A male student reported Feb. 28 that his wife threatened to come to his classes and cause a disruption. The couple is currently in the process of getting a divorce, police said.

STALKING

A man was arrested in the Harold B. Lee Library and taken to jail March 1 for allegedly stalking a female student. The man, 25, was apparently in violation of an order previously issued by the Sandy Police Department that he not contact the student. The two apparently met when the student was studying abroad; the man later came to the United States and tried to pursue a relationship with the student, who was not interested.

TRESPASSING

Police discovered a group of students running on BYU's NCAA track at 12:30 a.m. March 2. The students complied with police requests that they leave the area.

A male student in violation of BYU Dress and Grooming standards due to his facial hair refused to comply with requests from library employees to leave the premises March 1. BYU police officers then arrived and asked the student to leave; he then complied.

Police received several complaints about a street preacher from England distributing anti-Mormon literature near the Creamery on Ninth and the Missionary Training Center on Feb. 27. The man complied with police requests that he leave campus.

DEER

Police responded to a report of a wounded deer at Wymount on March 3. After an extensive search, police determined that the animal had left the area.

SUSPICIOUS PACKAGE

Police responded to reports of a suspicious package that had been left near the law school's east entrance for several hours on March 2. In the end, the package turned out to be an empty tackle box.

Copyright Brigham Young University 7 Mar 2006