The following are among the incidents reported to University Police between Sept. 19 and 25.
Sept. 19
5:43 a.m.: University Police observed a small fire in Lot E-21 on the Edinburg campus. Officers responded to the location and spoke with a non-affiliated man who was burning toilet paper. The man had no official business on campus. He was issued a criminal trespass warning and escorted from campus without further incident.
8:50 a.m.: A UTRGV employee reported having issues with a former supervisor. No crime occurred.
2:14 p.m.: University Police responded to a male student carrying a suspicious case in the University Library on the Edinburg campus. Officers spoke with the student and determined that the case was music equipment.
4:59 p.m.: A UTRGV employee reported a suspicious vehicle that she had observed the previous night in Lot E-5 on the Edinburg campus. The case is under investigation.
10:18 p.m.: University Police responded to an active fire alarm in the Casa Bella apartments on the Brownsville campus. Officers determined that a resident had burned some food while cooking. Officers found no damage and cleared the building for re-entry.
10:57 p.m.: A UTRGV employee reported causing an electrical malfunction after she connected a buffer machine in Health & Physical Education Building II on the Edinburg campus. A work order was submitted.
Sept. 20
12:38 p.m.: A student reported finding several scratches on her vehicle in Lot E-38 on the Edinburg campus. The case is under investigation.
1:31 p.m.: A student reported losing headphones in the University Library on the Edinburg campus.
1:41 p.m.: University Police responded to a minor two-vehicle collision in Lot E-16 on the Edinburg campus. No injuries were reported.
2:38 p.m.: A UTRGV employee reported work-related issues with her male supervisor.
7:38 p.m.: University Police spoke with a non-affiliated man in the Academic Support Facility complex parking lot after he was observed loading wooden pallets on a flatbed trailer. Officers determined the man was not authorized to take the items from their location and issued him a criminal trespass warning.
Sept. 21
12:31 a.m.: University Police found two students after hours inside the UTRGV Tennis Courts on the Edinburg campus. The students were identified and escorted out of the tennis courts.
1:43 a.m.: Two male students reported being followed by a suspicious vehicle on the Edinburg campus. Officers located the vehicle and determined the driver was playing a location-based game on his cellphone.
12:33 p.m.: A female student reported that a male student in a student organization demanded to be reimbursed for purchases that were not agreed upon. She requested the incident be documented.
2:44 p.m.: University Police responded to three students entering the UTRGV Campus Research Office Building through a window on the Brownsville campus. Officers determined students’ authorized access cards were not working. The students had permission to be in the building.
4:03 p.m.: A UTRGV student was struck by a vehicle while crossing the 700 block of North Sugar Road on his bicycle. The student sustained non-life-threatening injuries and was transported to the hospital by emergency medical services.
5:23 p.m.: UTRGV Parking and Transportation Services employees reported that a male student had a fraudulent parking permit in Lot E-26 on the Edinburg campus. The permit was seized and the incident was documented.
Sept. 22
12:08 a.m.: A student reported being involved in a disturbance with a non-affiliated man who visited her roommate after she had asked him to leave. The man and the roommate were not on location upon the officer’s arrival.
11:08 a.m.: A UTRGV employee reported that the tire of a university shuttle bus burst Sept. 18 while driving on the expressway, causing minor damage to the front right rim of the vehicle. No injuries were reported.
Sept. 23
4:49 p.m.: University Police were dispatched to the Casa Bella apartments on the Brownsville campus regarding a disturbance between a female student and a male student who previously dated. Police determined that no criminal offense occurred. The male student left the area without further incident.
11:11 p.m.: A student reported that another female student said an unknown man may have been following her the previous night near the Chapel on the Edinburg campus.
Sept. 24
8:20 a.m.: A student in the Village Apartments on the Edinburg campus requested emergency medical services because he was not feeling good. Emergency medical services later arrived and transported the student to the hospital for further evaluation.
Sept. 25
8:45 a.m.: A UTRGV employee reported that an unknown woman was possibly ill. University Police checked the area but were unable to locate the woman.
9:04 a.m.: A UTRGV employee reported that he ran over debris while traveling on interstate I-69C in a university vehicle, causing minor damage to the vehicle’s undercarriage.
12:51 p.m.: University Police stopped a non-affiliated man for a traffic violation in Lot E-38 on the Edinburg campus. The driver was found to have an active arrest warrant out of Hidalgo County for possession of marijuana. The Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office was notified and took custody of the man.
1:15 p.m.: A UTRGV employee notified University Police of a gas leak near Lot H-4 on the Harlingen campus. UTRGV Facilities and Texas Gas Service employees assessed the gas leak as officers kept the area clear.
4:09 p.m.: A student suffered a seizure in the University Center on the Edinburg campus and was transported to the hospital by emergency medical services for further evaluation.
6:16 p.m.: A UTRGV employee reported feeling ill after being exposed to a gas leak on the Harlingen campus. The employee declined emergency medical services.
6:23 p.m.: A UTRGV employee reported that she believed that another employee’s wife was following her vehicle while off campus.
Update: A report was generated May 22 in reference to a student who failed to return a university-owned instrument after being asked to return the property. Several attempts were made to recover the musical instrument to no avail. Upon further investigation, University Police investigators found that the instrument, a saxophone valued at $3,000, was stolen from the student’s residence, according to Assistant Police Chief Van Slusser. On Sept. 25, UTRGV investigators recovered the musical instrument from a local pawn shop. The individual who pawned the instrument was identified and an arrest warrant obtained. A Cameron County Sheriff’s Office deputy, while responding to an unrelated call, detained the non-affiliated female suspect in the case on the outstanding warrant. University Police later arrived at the Cameron County Adult Detention Center and served the woman with the arrest warrant for theft, a state jail felony. Claudia Ruiz, 46, was arraigned before a Cameron County magistrate on Sept. 26. The magistrate set a $7,500 cash surety bond on the theft charge.
–Compiled by Rebeca Salinas.
