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UNM cop’s car window shot through with BB gun

UNM police are looking into an instance of crime where one of their own was victimized.

A member of the UNM Police Department reported to colleagues that sometime between 10 p.m. on March 16 and 8 a.m. on March 17, an unknown assailant shot through the passenger-side window of the employee’s personal vehicle.

According to the police report, the UNM officer who received the report discovered what appeared to be a BB-size hole in the window.

The BB caused the window to shatter in place.

The damage is estimated at $300 and police report no suspects or witnesses in the incident.

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Resident feels ill after taking unprescribed pill

UNM police were sent to the Student Residence Center on March 17 after a female resident who was feeling ill reportedly admitted that she had taken some of her friend’s prescription medication.

The 20-year-old female reportedly told police she took a prescription muscle relaxer several hours before police were called.

The woman stated that she felt progressively worse after taking the pill. She was treated and taken to UNM Hospital.

A copy of the police report was forwarded to the dean of students.

Police cite student with 2 misdemeanor charges

An underage UNM student was cited for possession of alcohol and possession of a controlled substance after a campus police officer and a security guard discovered a 30-pack of beer, marijuana and drug paraphernalia inside a Coronado Hall dorm room.

The police officer and security guard knocked on the first-floor dorm room after they reportedly heard loud music coming from it at 1 a.m. on March 22.

According to the police report, Richard Arsenault, 20, answered the door and at that time, the UNM police officer noticed alcohol in plain sight on a table in the room.

The police officer asked Arsenault if he had any more alcohol in the dorm room and he reportedly produced a 30-pack of beer and told police he had asked a homeless man to buy it for him.

The police officer then asked if Arsenault had any drugs or weapons in the room and he gave the police an unspecified amount of marijuana.

The police officer poured out the beer, confiscated a water bong, placed the marijuana into evidence, cited Arsenault for the two misdemeanor charges and then explained the residence hall policies for drugs and alcohol to him. A copy of the police report was forwarded to the dean of students.

Items stolen from on-campus apartment

UNM police were sent to Student Family Housing to take a report of a home burglary.

The victim told police that someone entered her apartment sometime between March 20 and 24 and stole several items valued at more than $1,800.

The UNM police report states that there were no signs of forced entry, and that there are no suspects or witnesses in the incident.

According to the report, more than $1,500 worth of CDs, a $20 CD case and a set of speakers valued at $300 was stolen from the apartment.

Boy tries to attack center employee at main desk

UNM police were called to the New Mexico Children’s Psychiatric Center March 21 after a 15-year-old boy reportedly attempted to attack an employee.

According to the police report, the employee met with police and told them that the boy confronted her at the center’s main desk with a stick that had a sharp metal object on the end.

The report does not say if the boy was a patient at the center.

The report states that the boy then tried to stab the employee with the stick but the employee was able to get away and take refuge in an office.

The boy with the stick and a 13-year-old boy then broke out a window in the building’s recreation room and escaped.

According to the police report, the 13-year-old boy was caught and arrested for criminal damage to proerty but the 15-year-old boy was listed as missing.

No information was available about the 15-year-old boy.

Hussein’s regime gives officer’s family $34,000

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Saddam Hussein’s regime has given $34,000 to the family of an Iraqi army officer who killed four U.S. soldiers in a suicide attack, and the leader of the militant group Islamic Jihad said Sunday its volunteers had gone to Baghdad for similar bombing missions against the “American invasion.”

UH-1 helicopter crashes, killing three, wounding 1

SOUTHERN IRAQ (AP) — A Marine UH-1 Huey helicopter crashed at a forward supply and refueling point in southern Iraq on Sunday, killing three U.S. servicemen and wounding one, the U.S. military said.

The cause of the 8:30 p.m. crash was unclear, although Central Command spokeswoman Captain Dani Burrows said enemy fire was not involved.

Burrows said all four on board the helicopter were Marines. The helicopter had been taking off on a support mission.

15 wounded after man drives into U.S. soldiers

KUWAIT CITY (AP) — A man in civilian clothes drove a pickup truck into a group of U.S. soldiers standing outside a store at the Kuwaiti desert base of Camp Udairi on Sunday, wounding 15 of them, a U.S. military official said. It wasn’t immediately clear if the driver deliberately rammed the truck into the troops or if it was an accident. No explosives were found in the truck, a Pentagon official said.

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