Arizona Sheriff Releases Jared Loughner Reports

JANUARY 12--Arizona shooting suspect Jared Loughner was once arrested after showing up intoxicated one morning at his high school. He claimed to have “drank the alcohol because he was very upset as his father yelled at him,” according to a sheriff’s department report.

The document, seen here, was among a dozen Pima County Sheriff’s Department reports released today by investigators (the records memorialize assorted contacts cops have had with Loughner and his parents over the past several years). Of the four reports involving the accused killer, two detail arrests of Loughner.   

In May 2006, deputies were summoned to Mountain View High School by an assistant principal who reported that Loughner was in the school nurse’s office “currently under the influence of some type of intoxicant most likely Vodka.” Loughner, 17 at the time, was transported to a local hospital, where he told cops that he had consumed about 12 ounces of vodka over a seven-and-a-half hour period.

A deputy noted that nursing staff reported that Loughner “had stolen the alcohol from his father’s liquor cabinet.” When Loughner’s parents arrived at the hospital, the deputy informed them that the teen “was under Arrest for Consuming Alcohol.” The matter was subsequently handled in Pima County Juvenile Court.

Other incident reports released today included an October 2008 document detailing how Loughner walked into a Tucson precinct one afternoon to report that someone had placed his photograph on an online profile. Loughner told cops that he had Googled his name and the first result listed was to a PeekYou.com page with a photo of him when he was 16.

He also reported that the PeekYou page included a link to a MySpace account that carried only the name “Jared” and a user handle of “screwupretard.” While that MySpace page remains online, it carries no photos, blog entries, or list of friends--though “Jared” claims to be a 32-year-old woman from upstate New York.

Loughner told an investigator that he sought to file a police report “because he was concerned about trying to get jobs and having employers pulled this up and see someone using his identity on their profile.”

A third report details Loughner’s September 2007 arrest for possession of drug paraphernalia. Loughner was a passenger in a friend’s van when it was pulled over in response to a suspicious vehicle call. A deputy, who reported smelling a strong odor of burnt marijuana emanating from the vehicle, first arrested the driver, Bryce Tierney, for possession of rolling papers, a pot pipe, and a marijuana roach.

When a second deputy asked if he had any contraband, Loughner said no. When the cop asked Loughner if he could search him, “He said he had a right to say no…he never stated no, he just advised me that he had the right to say no.” Loughner subsequently admitted that he had a glass marijuana pipe in a pocket.

In response to a deputy’s question about whether any other pot or paraphernalia was in the car, Loughner “stated no there was not as he had already smoked it, meaning him and the driver who was his friend.”

Another report chronicles a September 2004 incident at Loughner’s high school during which he reported that a fellow student had stuck him with some kind of needle. Loughner, 16 at the time, told a sheriff’s deputy that “as soon as he figured out that he was poked with a needle, he started to become pale, got dizzy, could not stand and had to be helped to a nurse’s office by another friend.”

After consulting with his parents, Loughner declined to pursue assault charges. But he did tell a deputy that his parents wanted the other student “tested to see if he has HIV or any other kind of diseases.” (10 pages)