DPS officials conducted warrant checks on the subjects and asked them to leave the area.
"It was recovered in a ditch in Scio Township on the same day," said DPS spokesperson Elizabeth Hall.
A motor vehicle theft also occurred Monday from an emergency-room parking lot at the East Medical Center. The caller said the car was a blue Chevrolet Astro minivan. This car has not been recovered, Hall said.
"In the last 60 days, we've had maybe 10 (car thefts)," Hall said.
Damage to the third-floor room included papers and cardboard falling into the heater. The items smoldered and caused smoke. The area was vented for smoke, according to DPS reports.
The Ann Arbor Police Department also responded to the call. DPS requested that the plumbing shop turn off the heat in the room.
"From start to finish it was about an hour and a half," Hall said.
Traffic was rerouted around the area.
A caller said her credit cards were stolen from her planner in East Hall on Wednesday. The caller said a salesperson had informed her "that a woman has charged more than $1,000 dollars on it."
Credit cards were also the target of theft from the men's restroom in Canham Natatorium on East Hoover Street on Monday. A caller said credit cards were stolen by the custodian.
The property was later recovered on the second floor of the building and returned to the original owner, according to DPS reports.
In the Student Activities Building, a custodian recovered a wallet with credit cards and identification in the the men's second floor restroom on Monday. DPS reports said some of the items in the wallet were missing.
A secretary in the East Medical Center reported that her purse was stolen Wednesday from her desk in her office. Among the items missing at the time of the theft were a pager, petty cash and other personal items, according to DPS reports.
- Compiled by Daily Staff Reporter Anupama Reddy.