Orange police arrested a Louisiana man for possession of methamphetamine Saturday morning after a call that a shirtless man was climbing on the top of a shed in the yard of a house on Tenth Street.
According to the police report, the man said he had been looking for his girlfriend and had gone up to search for her. He admitted to the officer he had been using meth.
Police went to the 2000 block of Tenth Street about 8:45 a.m. Saturday after the call. The person calling police said the man used a ladder to climb up the shed. When he got down, he ran into a wooded area behind the house.
The patrol officer said he spotted the man in the 1900 block of Tenth Street looking into the window of a vacant house. The man was carrying a “large stick.”
The officer stopped the man. The report said the man was “sweating profusely, showing sign of paranoia.” The officer asked if the man had been using meth, and the man admitted. The officer reported he found a small baggie with meth in the man’s pocket. The man told the officer he had been looking for his girlfriend most of the night.
Ryan Anthony Garvin of Deville, Louisiana, was arrested and taken to the Orange County Jail. He faces a state jail felony charge of possession of a controlled substance.
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