Orange police are investigating a burglary and robbery Friday night in Charlemont that ended with two vehicles colliding on Rio Grande Street.
Officers arrested 40-year-old Richard Paul Kibodeaux a short time later in the Northmont area off 23rd Street.
Lieutenant Jason Ashworth said police were called about 10:15 p.m. to the 2000 block of Rio Grande for a burglary in progress. While patrol officers were going to the house, they had a report of a stolen pickup truck in the 2300 block of Rio Grande.
Lieutenant Ashworth said the first call came because man was entering a house without permission. The owner of the house knows the man but didn’t want him inside and notified police.
As the man was walking away from the first house, he came across a Toyota Tacoma pickup truck that was parked and running at a house in the 2300 block of Rio Grande. The man took the pickup. When the owner tried to stop him, the man punched the truck owner, which turned the unauthorized use into a robbery.
The thief drove the truck away and hit an unoccupied parked Toyota Corolla on Rio Grande at 23rd Street. The patrol officer wrote on the collision report that Kibodeaux was arrested for burglary, robbery and leaving the scene of an accident.
A local construction company Saturday reported a $100,000 Freightliner flatbed truck had been stolen. Orange police went to Williams Brothers Construction Company, in 3600 block of Womack Road at 12:40 p.m. Saturday. The company said an employee did not return Friday evening with the truck. After trying to call the man and go by his house, the company decided to call police. The truck has the license AE63482.
A Dodge pickup truck was reported stolen from the 2300 block of Monterrey Street early Sunday. Monterrey is also in the Charlemont subdivision. Police reported a man left the pickup parked outside a friend’s house while they went to work. At 9:30 a.m. Sunday, he discovered the blue pickup was missing. The man told police he had left the keys in the truck’s ashtray. The truck has the license HDY0831.
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