Pubdate: Tue, 06 Feb 2007
Source: Valley Independent, The (Monessen, PA)
Copyright: 2007 The Tribune-Review Publishing Co.
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STUDENT ACCUSED IN ASSAULT OF CAL U COP

CALIFORNIA - A California University of Pennsylvania  student was 
sent to the Washington County Correctional  Facility for allegedly 
assaulting a university police  officer who responded to a report 
about the odor of  marijuana Friday night.

Steve Orbin, a campus police officer, responded to a  call 10 p.m. 
Friday from student advisors at Residence  E who said they smelled 
marijuana outside Room 411.

Orbin and police Sgt. Mark Gazi knocked on the door,  which was 
answered by [Name redacted]. However,  [Name redacted], a student, 
did not allow the officers to  enter.

The officers subsequently forced their way inside the  room and found 
student [Name redacted], 19, of  Dunbar, trying to flush something 
down a toilet in the  bathroom.

[Name redacted] ran out of the room and Orbin began to chase him.

According to the affidavit of probable cause, Orbin and  [Name 
redacted] scuffled. Orbin suffered a severe knee injury.  [Name 
redacted] kicked the officer as they wrestled on the  floor.

Gazi witnessed the scuffle between Orbin and [Name redacted].

[Name redacted] escaped from the injured officer and ran through  a 
fire exit, which set off an alarm.

[Name redacted], 18, of Gaithersburg, Md., and [Name redacted], who 
is not a student, were arrested without  incident in the room.

Brownsville emergency personnel transported Orbin to  Monongahela 
Valley Hospital in Carroll Township, where  he was treated for the 
knee injury and released.

Police seized a bag of suspected drugs from the dorm room.

[Name redacted] and [Name redacted] are expected to be charged 
with  unspecified offenses today, Cal U spokesman Bruce Wald  said.

The university police officers were assisted at the  scene by police 
from California Borough and  Centerville.

[Name redacted] ultimately was apprehended and later charged  with 
aggravated assault, escape, false alarms to  agencies of public 
safety, resisting arrest, simple  assault, assault on a police 
officer, and disorderly conduct.

He was arraigned before Magisterial District Judge  Larry Hopkins, of 
Charleroi, and jailed in lieu of  $25,000 bond.
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