ASU Police reported the following incidents Wednesday:
- Two men were arrested Saturday morning at the 800 block of South Mill Avenue on suspicion of urinating in public, according to a police report. An ASU Police officer was patrolling Lot 16, a Tempe Campus parking lot, when he got a call from a police aid who said there were two males urinating on a white van, according to the report.The officer had previously driven past the van but didn’t notice anything, so he backed up his patrol vehicle and saw the two men zipping up their pants, police reported. The officer spoke with the men and both said they did not urinate on the van, according to the report.
The police aide arrived and said the two men were the ones he saw urinating on the van, police reported. The men were placed under arrest and given tickets for public urination, according to the report.
- A 21-year-old man was arrested at the 100 block of East University Drive Saturday on suspicion of criminal damage, shoplifting and possessing a vapor-releasing substance, according to a report. An ASU Police officer was near the College of Design North building on the Tempe campus when she saw the man huffing vapor from a can of Dust-Off Electronics duster, police reported. The officer placed him in handcuffs, according to the report. The man told the officer he didn’t know huffing paint was illegal, according to the report. He was arrested and transported to the ASU Police Department, police reported.During questioning, the man said he bought the Dust-Off from CVS, but went back and stole a second can when it ran out, according to the report.The man was halfway through the second can when the officer arrested him, according to the report.Police asked the man if he had a green marker, and the man said he did but had lost it, police reported.The man said he wrote on the side of Circle K and Ms. Rita’s Psychic Reader on University Drive near Mill Avenue earlier in the night, according to the report.
CVS, Circle K, Ms. Rita’s and other nearby businesses said they would aid in prosecution, police reported.
The estimated value of the damage and stolen item is $1,420, according to the report.
Reports compiled by Shawn Raymundo. Reach the reporter at sraymund@asu.edu
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