Crime Watch

March 21

A UNM Police officer was dispatched to Coronado Hall to look for a man who tried to kidnap a student. A woman said she was walking from her Alvarado dorm room to her off-campus job when she encountered the man. The woman said the man was standing outside his car and had the door on the driver's side open. When the woman walked by the car, she said he grabbed her by her shoulders, took her to the passenger side and tried to push her into the vehicle. The man could not be located.

March 21

A UNM Police officer went to the Knowledge Management and Information Technology Center in response to a stolen vehicle report. The man whose vehicle was stolen told the officer he had left his vehicle at a parking structure on Lomas Boulevard at 8:30 a.m. The man said that by the time he returned to get his vehicle at about 6 p.m., it was gone. There were no witnesses, no sign of forced entry and no camera footage to review.

March 23

A UNM Police officer arrived at Redondo Village Apartments to investigate a narcotics report. Three resident advisers told the officer they had discovered narcotics in one of the dorm rooms. The advisers said they found pill bottles, syringes and a green, leafy substance in the room. After looking at the paraphernalia, the officer locked the apartment door and called a UNM detective to investigate the situation.

March 23

A UNM Police officer was called to the UNM Mental Health Center to file a report of battery. A man told the officer he had been escorting a patient from a van into the building when the patient hit him. The man said he grabbed the hood of the patient's jacket and used it to blind the patient while he and other Mental Health Center workers subdued him. The security cameras at the Mental Health Center were down at the time.