We love strange crimes here at The Traveler. Cooking ecstasy in your dorm room? Creative. Raising snakes in your dorm room? Impressive. But hoarding a loaded revolver, a stun gun, a collection of knives, loose ammo and 15 pine tree air fresheners in your car to, naturally, conceal the smell of your gun? That’s something we haven’t heard before.
Freshman Tyler White, 18, was flagged down at 2 a.m. Saturday by an officer who planned only to inform him that he was approaching a roadblock. But White wasn’t sober enough to receive the message and drive on. He failed every standard field sobriety test.
White wasn’t the only student busted by cops last weekend. About 28 Dickson-goers were caught using fake IDs Saturday night, and six alcohol-related arrests were made on Sunday.
Maybe these high arrest rates are a result of first-weekend excitement, or maybe the UAPD is tightening its policies. Whatever the reason is, students need to straighten up. Cops are on the prowl, handcuffs ready.


