Police beat

Kayla Webley
2005-01-20
The Daily

'Foul play with a laser'

At 3:45 p.m. Jan. 11, two UW Police Department officers responded to a report of unlawful discharge of a laser.

A man in the Physics and Astronomy Building was reportedly "harassed" by a laser beam that "almost blinded" him for a split second, he said. The man identified the laser as coming from either the third or fourth window at the top of Terry Hall.

Officers entered the residence hall in an attempt to find the owners of the laser pointer. While they were unable to find the students responsible, they did speak to residents in a neighboring room and asked them to give their message to students suspected of "foul play with a laser."

Internet stalker seeks date

At 12:50 p.m. Jan. 12, a UWPD officer responded to a female student who complained she had been receiving harassing e-mails from an unknown sender.

The e-mails referred to the woman's "hot body" and "nice buttocks and breast" and inquired whether or not the woman had a boyfriend. The sender hinted at wanting to date her in the future. The e-mail Romeo called himself by a single name.

The woman was advised to send one short e-mail back to the unwanted sender requesting no further emails.

Russian rudeness

A man reportedly entered the office of a female UW faculty member at noon Jan. 10, and told her to "stop spreading rumors behind my back, if you care about your child and yourself" in Russian.

The woman told UWPD officers that she recalled the name of the man because she had met him indirectly while attending some Russian gatherings. However, the woman maintained that she and her husband had never had anything to do with the man and had never had any arguments or issues with him.

The woman was advised to avoid any future confrontations with the man and contact UWPD should any future confrontations arise.

Nighttime nuisance

On Jan. 10, a UWPD officer met with a female McCarty Hall resident who had reportedly been receiving harassing calls on her cellular phone for weeks from an unknown source.

The woman said she thought she could identify the caller because of his specific voice patterns, words he used and a previous history of making prank phone calls. The voice on the phone was female, the woman said, adding that she did not recognize it but believed she heard the male in the background prompting the woman's words.

The woman said the caller knew specific information about her, including where she went to school and her former last name.

Although the caller had not made any threats, the calls came at all hours of the early morning and disrupted her sleep, the woman said.

UWPD officers provided the woman with some prevention tips and advised her to keep a log of any future calls.