A young Orangefield man was injured Tuesday afternoon when he lost control of the motorcycle he was driving on an Interstate 10 access road near FM 1136.
Orange police report 21-year-old George William Fox was taken by Acadian Ambulance to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont with non-incapacitating injuries.
The investigating officer said the Isuzu motorcycle was eastbound in the outside lane in the 9900 block of Lutcher Drive, the access road. A witness said the motorcyle was traveling at a high rate of speed. A vehicle in front used its brakes. The motorcycle slowed down, but the driver lost control and the bike went down on its side.
A man relaxing in a chair on a vacant lot on 17th Street was attacked by two men, with one hitting him in the back of the head with a metal fencepost. Both men chased him, one with the fence post and the other with a knife, but the attackers left after they couldn’t catch him.
Orange police had a 911 call to the lot in the 2900 block of 17th Street at noon Tuesday.
The man told officers he was sitting in the chair when two men came up and asked his name. When he told them, one punched him in the left eye. The other picked up the fence post and hit him in the back of the head. Then the one who punched him pulled out a knife and tried to stab him.
The man began running away and circled around a parked vehicle to avoid the attackers. They grew tired of the chase and left. A witness told police they saw the chase along with the man with the knife and the other with the fence post.
Gunshots hit a house at 11 Tuesday night in the 1200 block of Burton Avenue by the railroad tracks. Detective Captain Robert Enmon said officers found shell casings and damage to the house in the kitchen-living room area. No one was injured. Police think the shooting may be a personal vendetta.
A report of gunshots led police to arrest a man inside a vacant house for misdemeanor marijuana possession. Police went to the 1400 block of Sabine Avenue about 10 a.m. Tuesday. A neighbor told officers he had seen someone inside the vacant house.
Officers reported smelling marijuana inside. One officer went through an open window and another through the open back door. They saw baggies with marijuana sitting on a black stand. The bathroom door was locked and an officer asked that the person come out.
The man came out and admitted he owned the marijuana. Police report Malek Chargois was arrested and 3.9 ounces of marijuana was recovered.
It is common in The Cove for people to go into the many abandoned & delapedated houses
At night to do drugs. Residents around these houses have told me they lock their doors . Our nice normally quite neighborhood’s get scarey real fast. Hope
our city demolish’ these houses . Will improve the quality of life in Orange.
I wonder how many abandoned houses could be torn down with the money it will cost to build one splash pad.
Also wonder which would benifit our neighborhood’s children more. Safer & cleaner neighborhood’s our a splash pad ?
Just wondering…..