Yet another car was stolen from the area surrounding campus this week. A student told UWPD that he parked his car at 8 a.m. Jan. 29 on Northeast Pacific Street near the Stevens Court complex, only to find that the vehicle was gone when he returned at 11:30 a.m. the following day.

The car was a red four-door 1996 Honda Accord and has yet to be recovered.

Also disappearing between Jan. 29 and 31 were four 750-milliliter cases of red and white wine from the Communications Building. The wine was being kept for upcoming banquet functions. The estimated value of the stolen wine was about $240.

“A lot of people have access to that room,” said UWPD Assistant Chief Ralph Robinson. The campus wine thief remains at large.

On Jan. 30, a retaining wall near Bloedel Hall was vandalized by another one of the U-District’s rogue spray paint artists, who sprayed black graffiti across the West Stevens Way wall. UW police estimate the costs of repair at about $150.

Also on Jan. 31, police booked four students on drug charges and confiscated several items of drug paraphernalia. Robinson said four individuals were seen standing under the trees in what the police call “a known drug area” on campus.

“We announced police presence and asked them what they were doing,” Robinson said. “We asked them if they had any drugs with them and one individual reached into her pocket and produced a small glass pipe.”

Police also confiscated a glass bong from the students and escorted them to the UWPD headquarters, where they were booked. Robinson said that the students admitted to using marijuana that day prior to their run-in with the police.

“The paraphernalia items were destroyed and we talked to the students about the bad side of using marijuana,” Robinson said. The students were then released.

Also on Jan. 31, a male student was arrested for harassing his female friend.

According to the victim, the student sent her several threatening text messages.

“He told her in the messages that he was going to punch her in the face and that he didn’t care that she was a girl,” Robinson said. “Then he wrote some not-nice things about her.”

The victim called the police and the text-messaging suspect was arrested and booked in King County Jail on charges of harassment.

[Reach columnist Siv Prince at news@thedaily.washington.edu.]