Police Reports

The following are among the incidents reported to University Police between Nov. 7 and Nov. 16.

Nov. 7

4:24 p.m.: A student reported she was waiting for a vehicle to vacate a parking space when a silver Mercedes SUV tried to drive around her car in the parking aisle. The student said she felt her vehicle move and after parking, she saw damage to the rear driver’s side bumper. The vehicle continued to circle the area and she was able to take a picture of it. A video review shows the described incident. The case is under investigation.

Nov. 8
11:41 a.m.: A student reported that her ex-boyfriend said he was going to come onto the UTRGV campus and distribute provocative photos of her. The woman said she has filed several reports filed with two other agencies against the man for assault in the past. The student was advised to file a report in regard to this case with the police department in Edcouch, where she resides. Detectives are already in contact with the Edcouch Police Department.

Nov. 9

4:12 p.m.: A student reported that her vehicle was damaged while parked in Lot B1 on the Brownsville campus.

Nov. 10

12:59 p.m.: A male staff member was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of assault-dating violence after a disturbance in Lot E37 on the Edinburg campus. A woman told the officer that she was assaulted by her boyfriend. The staff member was transported to the Edinburg Municipal Jail. The woman refused medical attention.

Nov. 11

2:59 p.m.: A student reported that while she was conducting a roadway survey for class near Rio Hondo, she struck a mailbox with the university vehicle’s front passenger side view mirror. She said she was not injured and declined emergency medical services.

Nov. 12

6:53 p.m.: A student reported she left her bike unsecured in front of Unity Hall and returned to find it stolen.

Nov. 13

2:28 a.m.: A UTRGV officer returning to the UTRGV Brownsville campus, observed a vehicle committing traffic violations and stopped it. The driver appeared to be intoxicated and performed poorly on the Standard Field Sobriety Test. He was arrested on a charge of driving while intoxicated and transported to Brownsville City Jail. The driver refused to provide a specimen of his breath. The officer then completed a blood warrant, which was signed by a judge. The man was then transported to Valley Baptist Medical Center in Brownsville, where a specimen of his blood was drawn by medical staff.

Nov. 14

7:40 p.m.: An officer stopped a student whose vehicle displayed a paper license plate with no record on file. The student said a Texas Department of Public Safety officer had stopped him and confiscated a similar license plate the previous week. He bought the vehicle from someone in Harlingen who had been giving him the paper license plates. The student was told the license plates he is receiving are not legitimate. The paper license plate was confiscated and the student was provided the case number.

Nov. 15

8:43 a.m.: A student said she overheard a professor using verbally abusive language toward students in a classroom. She identified the professor through the UTRGV directory and completed a witness statement.

Nov. 16

11:29 p.m.: A traffic stop was conducted on a vehicle with a defective head lamp, which yielded an operator with a suspended driver’s license. An active warrant was located and confirmed for the driver’s arrest from the City of Edinburg for unpaid fines. The operator was booked into the Edinburg Municipal Jail on the outstanding warrant and was issued a court appearance citation.

–Compiled by Megan Gonzalez