Police Beat

Kayla Webley
2005-01-27
The Daily

'Messing with my man'

A UW Police Department officer met with a female McCarty Hall resident regarding harassing phone calls she received on her cell phone at 3:57 p.m. on Jan. 16.

The resident had reportedly received numerous blocked calls on her cell phone during the previous few days. The woman told the officer the caller would hang up as soon as she answered.

At 11:48 a.m., a female left a message on the woman's voicemail saying, "Hey bitch this isn't over what we talked about last time."

The resident recognized the voice from a call she had received prior to winter break. In that voicemail message the female caller had said, "Hey bitch your messing with my man. I know you live in a dorm. I'll come over and kick you and your roommate's ass."

Right before the resident contacted UWPD, she received a call that her roommate answered. The roommate argued on the phone with the caller for 15 minutes. During the argument, the caller named herself and admitted to leaving the voicemail messages.

Once the caller revealed her name, the resident recognized the caller as being a friend of her sister's, and remembered an argument they had had before.

The resident called her sister to tell her what was going on.

"The police aren't going to do anything," the resident's sister told her.

UWPD advised that if the caller calls again, the resident should tell the caller to stop calling and let her know she had reported the calls to the police.

A mysterious stranger

An employee at Henderson Hall discovered his wallet was stolen from his office between 7:50 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. Jan. 20.

The wallet was taken from the employee's backpack and turned up in the men's bathroom. When the wallet was recovered everything except $40 in cash had been accounted for.

Shortly after 8 a.m., also in Henderson Hall, a woman was using the restroom when an unknown man came in and asked to use the restroom. She directed him down the hall to the men's bathroom. When the woman exited the bathroom, the man said, "You better change your attitude," as she passed him in the hallway.

The man was then seen around 9 a.m. ascending the staircase to reach the upper floors of the building.

Then same man was later seen around 9:30 a.m. when one employee returned to her office to find him sitting in her desk chair talking on a cell phone. She asked him why he was in her office. The man replied he was just looking for a quiet place to talk on the phone and left the room.

The employee who saw the man on the staircase later found him wandering on the fifth floor and asked the man's purpose for being in the building. When the man replied that he was searching for someone, the employee told the man to go to the front desk where they would attempt to locate the person.

The man called someone on his cell phone and asked the person on the line where they were. The man then told the employee that he was going to leave out the back door. When the man attempted to leave, the employee told him "no" and grabbed his sleeve in an attempt to restrain him. The man fled on foot away from the building.

All responding officers were unable to find the man.

Flat-screen bandit

A UWPD officer responded to a reported theft of computers that occurred in Gould Hall sometime between 4 p.m. and 10 p.m. Jan. 16.

Upon examination of the area, the officer discovered three computers and two flat screen monitors were missing from two separate rooms. The cables locking the computers to the desks did not appear to have been cut, but had either been snapped or twisted. The computers were estimated to be worth $4,500.