This hasn’t been a good week for workers at the Invista plant on FM 1006. Three people in the plant’s parking lot had windows broken in their cars and items stolen sometimes Tuesday night. The break-ins were reported to Orange police at 5 a.m. Wednesday. On Monday, Invista’s management announced that at least 75 employees at the plant will be laid off because a unit will be permanently closed.
The thief breaking into the vehicles smashed the driver’s side windows on three vehicles, which were owned by men who live in Bridge City, Orange and Groves. A total of about $3,000 worth of items were taken from the three. The stolen items included stereo radio systems, a buck knife, another knife and a knife case. Also missing were an iPod from one and an iPad from another.
Wednesday morning, workers arriving at the maintenance department for the Little Cypress-Mauriceville school district discovered that a tire off a truck had been stolen. Orange police went to the maintenance center, 8901 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, about 7 a.m. Wednesday.
Also on Wednesday, a resident living in the 1400 block of Cherry had a 40-inch TV stolen from the house. The resident told Orange police the break-in had been between 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m.
A man who was stabbed outside a house in the Brownwood neighborhood was out of the hospital but has found himself in the county jail. Orange police reports show that 33-year-old John Erik Sanchez of Beaumont was arrested at 6:44 p.m. Tuesday night for misdemeanor public intoxication at Brownwood Park. He was again arrested for the same offense about 7:20 Wednesday night at the park’s playground. In the two separate reports, Officer Nicholas Medina said Sanchez had smelled of alcohol and was unsteady on his fee.
Sanchez had been stabbed in the back in the early morning of Friday, October 2, during an argument, according to Orange police. He was taken by ambulance to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont.
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