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Issue date: 8/21/07 Section: Community
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Around 2:30 a.m. Saturday, Miami University Police Officer Lampl and Oxford Police Officer Peter Reising were on joint patrol when they came across a male lying in a flowerbed in front of the Oxford Municipal Building bleeding from the face. He was later identified as Miami junior Ryan Coli.
According to the reports, the officers stopped two individuals walking away from the scene.
The officers also reportedly found a Miami University ID card believed to be connected to the assailant. The case will continue to be investigated by the Oxford Police Department (OPD).
Coli was also involved in an incident in the spring of 2006 in Oxford where he was kidnapped, assaulted, robbed and dropped off in Indiana. The assailants in that case are now serving jail time, according to OPD.
Police find kidnapping victim on ground, bleeding uptown
OPD arrest Miami first-year for public urination near bar
Around 2:30 a.m. Sunday, Oxford Police arrested Miami University first-year Matthew Rehker for underage intoxication.
According to police reports, Officer Jenkins of the OPD noticed what appeared to be two males urinating on a wall outside of Stadium Bar and Grille.
Reportedly, the males noticed the officers before beginning to urinate-however, one of the subjects appeared to still have his fly down on his pants.
Officers determined Rehker to be intoxicated and when questioned, he replied that he had been drinking earlier in the evening with his parents as well as consuming beverages inside the bar with his brother.
Senior reports missing Bud Light cases from break-in
Miami senior Elizabeth Page contacted the Oxford Police Department about damage to her home on South Poplar Street around 3 a.m. Sunday.
She informed dispatch that she and her roommates heard a loud banging at the rear of the house. After investigating, Page told officers that the back door to her house had been forced open and they discovered two cases of Bud Light Beer missing from their kitchen.
Page and her roommates did not witness anyone in their yard after the incident, according to the police reports.
Male attempts to hide beer in pants, receives citation
Dustin Townley, 20, of Lebanon, Ohio was cited with underage possession Friday night when Oxford Police witnessed him attempt to shove an open container of beer down the front of his pants.
According to reports, Townley tried to hide the beer when he saw the officer approach. OPD then asked for his ID and what he had placed in his pants.
Townley handed over the open can of Bud Light beer, and the officer discovered a can of Natural Light beer in his left front pocket.
Slurred speech, vomiting result in visit to hospital
Just past midnight Sunday morning, Oxford Police witnessed a male push, and attempt
to strike, a bystander in front of Brick Street Bar. However, the subject collided with the bystander and fell to the ground.
Officers identified the male still on the ground as Miami sophomore William J. Calpin. According to reports, Calpin was extremely intoxicated, could not stand unassisted and his speech was slurred to the point of being unintelligible.
Sgt. John Buchholz transferred Calpin to Oxford Police Department where he reportedly vomited and urinated on himself before passing out.
Calpin was transported to McCullough Hyde Hospital. He was cited with underage intoxication and disorderly conduct.
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