A man wanted on warrants related to drug possession is now facing an additional charge after Orange police arrested him Saturday afternoon in a convenience store parking lot.
Police reported they found 6.3 grams of synthetic marijuana along with marijuana, a digital scale, and cash. The arresting officer reported a person called after seeing the man in an SUV spending about 20 minutes in the parking lot of the store on 16th Street. The person told police several people had walked up to the SUV and they were exchanging something with the driver.
The officer said he walked up to the SUV to check to see if the man was wanted on warrants and smelled marijuana. The officer found a plastic bag with a sweet-smelling synthetic marijuana. The substance ended up weighing 6.3 ounces.
In the back seat, the officer found a backpack that had marijuana, several small plastic baggies, and a digital scale.
28-year-old Ahmad Rashad Breaux of Orange was arrested for possession of a controlled substance. Police said he had two warrants from state district court for felony drug cases, two warrants from a county court-at-law for two misdemeanor possession cases, plus two warrants from a justice of the peace for possession of a controlled substance.
In other police reports from the weekend:
A vehicle was stolen Thursday night from the Navy Park neighborhood. Orange police were called about 4:30 a.m. to the 500 block of Knox Avenue. A man said he had parked his vehicle on the street the night before and noticed it gone when he went outside to go to work.
Two burglaries were reported to Orange police Friday. One was in the 200 block of Knox Avenue in Navy Park. An officer said the lock to the front door had been broken. Two weed-eaters (one a Stihl brand), a lawnmower, and a chainsaw were stolen. In the second burglary, a handgun was stolen from a house in the 2900 block of Bob Hall Road.
The Texas Workforce Solutions office at 2415 16th Street called police Friday morning after discovering offensive graffiti written with black marker on the front glass. Police said an employee took photographs of the graffiti and then cleaned it off. Supervisors requested the graffiti be reported.
An out-of-state worker at DowDuPont Sabine River Works had two large toolboxes stolen from his pickup truck. Police went to the plant on FM 1006 on Saturday morning. The man said he had chained the toolboxes to his truck bed and had a pad lock on them. However, the chains had been cut. The boxes had been taken while he was parked at a company lot on Friday. He told police he did not notice them missing until he went back to his hotel Friday night.
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