To view lsureveille.com’s Campus Crime Map, click here.51 YEAR OLD STEALS SQUID SALADThe LSU Police Department arrested a 51-year-old woman unaffiliated with the University around 4:30 p.m. Friday for shoplifting a squid salad sushi plate from Tiger Lair in the Student Union.LSUPD spokesman Capt. Russell Rogé said officers arrested Sheila Cannon, a Baton Rouge resident with no permanent address, after searching Cannon’s bag and finding a crack pipe and 11 oxycodone pills for which Cannon did not have a prescription.Once questioned, Cannon admitted to stealing an Almond Joy candy bar and a bag of Lay’s potato chips from the Mini-Mart before shoplifting from the Union.Cannon was booked in East Baton Rouge Parish prison for shoplifting, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of Schedule II drugs. DRUNK STUDENT FLEES LSUPD, FALLS DOWNLSUPD responded to a medical emergency Aug. 25 at Herget Hall around 1 a.m. and were informed a student had been drinking in the lobby.Officers confronted 18-year-old Andrew Jolibois, of 190 N. Berryline Circle, The Woodlands, Texas, outside the dorm. Jolibois shouted obscenities at the officers before fleeing the scene and falling in the parking lot, Rogé said.He later admitted he had been drinking and was booked in EBR Parish Prison for resisting an officer and underage drinking, Rogé said.TWO STUDENTS INVOLVED WITH MARIJUANA, CODEINELSUPD arrested two students for smoking marijuana in a car after following the pair to an East Campus Apartment.LSUPD arrested Vincent Brown Jr., 20, of 1020 N. Seventh Street, Monroe, and Sarita Robinson, 18, of 1200 Hendrix Street, Little Rock, Ark., after an officer saw Brown and Robinson smoking in a black Chevy Coblt and returned to 1204 East Campus Apartments, where the officer smelt marijuana.The officer then followed the two back to the vehicle and got permission to search the car, Rogé said.Officers found four codeine pills inside, Rogé said. Neither Brown nor Robinson had a prescription for the painkillers.Officers also found a small bag of marijuana and half a joint, weighing a total of approximately two grams in the apartment, Rogé said.Rogé said the two admitted to possession of both drugs.Brown was issued a misdemeanor summons, Rogé said. Robinson, who claimed the codeine, was charged with possession of a Schedule II drug and booked in EBR Parish Prison.DRUNK DRIVER GOES TO JAILA University student was arrested on suspicion of drinking and driving after swerving his vehicle on Nicholson Drive near Gourrier Lane around 12:30 a.m. Aug. 22.Jeffrey Thompson Jr., 22, of 6715 Goodwood Ave, Baton Rouge, was stopped on River Road where he failed a field sobriety test and was brought back to the Public Safety building, Rogé said.An LSUPD officer saw him moving between lanes and off the road before running a stop sign, Rogé said.Thompson refused a chemical test and was booked in EBR Parish Prison for driving while intoxicated, careless operation of a vehicle and having an open container in his vehicle.STUDENTS PARTY IN CAR, GET CAUGHTUniversity students Joel Catalinotto, 18, of 6 Caribbean Court, Mandeville, and Casey Conner, 18, of 1419 Sweet Bay Court, Covington, were found drinking beer in a car Thursday outside Kirby Smith Hall.They were spotted by an LSUPD officer on a mountain bike, Rogé said.Both were charged with minor in possession of alcohol.STUDENT REFUSES TESTLSUPD officers patrolling Fieldhouse Drive around 3 a.m. Friday saw a vehicle with its brake lights on parked in the road.University student Sara Godwin, 18, of 617 Sherman Street, failed a field sobriety test administered after officers smelled alcohol, Rogé said.Godwin refused a chemical test once she was brought to the Public Safety Building and was booked in EBR Parish Prison for driving while intoxicated, careless operation and driving without a license.UNDERAGE DRIVER BOOKED After being seen driving in the wrong lane on East Campus Drive around 2:30 a.m. Sunday, an underage man unaffiliated with the University was pulled over for running a stop sign.Johnathan Persac, 20, of 17403 Thelm Dr., Prairieville, was arrested for DWI and brought to the public safety building for a chemical test, Rogé said.Persac tested with a blood alcohol content level of .04 grams percent, less than what is illegal for an adult, but more than is legal for a minor.Persac was booked in EBR Parish Prison and charged with underage driving under the influence, careless operation and disregarding a stop sign.
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Campus Crime Briefs
August 31, 2009