Stuart Morrison, Staff Writer
Police dispatch received a call on the morning of Aug. 12 from an unknown male who said he was in front of the Town Hall Building at the University Place, and someone was trying to kill him. Officer Dicks quickly arrived in the area, but found no one present. Officers Watson and Hawkins arrived as backup units. The officers searched the area, and Officer Dicks saw a male exiting a room then walking in the opposite direction. Later Officer Dicks came face to face with the male, who appeared to be lost. The man wasn’t wearing shoes and was unable to answer simple questions. The man had difficulty remembering where he was going, but he was able to tell Officer Dicks which room he was staying in. The two began walking in the direction of the man’s dorm room, but the man stopped in front of another room that had his name written all over it. The officers requested that the Resident Assistants meet with them at the room. Officer Dicks knocked on the door and was met by another male who indicated the confused man was staying there as a guest. The officer noticed that this man’s eyes were bloodshot and asked if he had been smoking marijuana, to which the man stated that he had. Officer Dicks asked another man who was also present in the room for permission to enter, to which the man stated he was not a resident of the room. The other man with bloodshot eyes was a resident and provided consent for the officer to enter. Officer Dicks asked the guest if he had also been smoking marijuana, and he said he had been. Then Officer Dicks asked if the men had any marijuana in the room. The resident stated he had no marijuana in his room, but consented to a search, which provided no results. Officers Hawkins and Watson conducted interviews with the resident and the guest, and learned that there was a fourth male nearby, who was probably the one who called the police that morning. Police then searched for, and eventually found, the fourth male. The officers issued trespass warnings and Student Judiciary notices.
