A pizza delivery man told police that when he stopped along a road to check for directions, a man with a box cutter walked up to his car and tried to rob him. The delivery man shoved two hot large pizzas at the man’s chest and drove away.
The delivery man called police at 6:08 p.m. Friday. He told the patrol officer he had missed seeing Sagebrush Street and pulled over on the side of the road at FM 3247.
He said he did not hear a car drive up, but a man knocked on his window. The driver partially rolled down his window and the man said “Hey, homie, give me all you’ve got.” The would-be robber was described as white with a scruffy beard and wearing an off-white T-shirt. The driver could see the man holding a box cutter, though the man did not threaten the driver with the box cutter.
The driver took the pizzas out of the heat protector and shoved the pizzas at the man. The driver told the officer his manager told him to notify police.
In another pizza-related call, police on Sunday evening arrested a woman after she fell asleep in her car in the Little Caesar’s drive-in line. The store called officers at 6:18 p.m.
The patrol officer reported he arrived to find the Orange Fire Department and Acadian Ambulance Service at the woman’s vehicle, which was still running. The woman did not want medical help.
The officer said she had slow, slurred speech and staggered outside of the vehicle.
He reported the woman was arrested for second offense driving under the influence. A corrections officer at the Orange County Jail discovered the woman had baggie with synthetic marijuana.
Courtney Dale Richards of Little Cypress faces a Class A misdemeanor charge of second offense driving under the influence and Class B misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance.
A 58-year-old man sustained serious injuries Friday morning in a three-vehicle collision on Highway 87 North at Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
Orange police report Edgar Hennigan of Orange was taken by Acadian Ambulance to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont with incapacitating injuries.
Police went to the crash at 10:45 a.m. Friday. The investigating officer reported Hennigan was driving a 2005 Ford F150 pickup truck pulling a trailer. He was in the northbound outside lane of Highway 87.
A 2000 Mercury Cougar driven by 78-year-old Jerry W. Gibson of Starks, Louisiana, was also traveling northbound in the outside lane. The Cougar hit the back of the trailer, forcing it to run into the pickup truck.
The trailer swerved and hit a 2017 Chevrolet Malibu traveling northbound in the inside lane. The driver was a 45-year-old woman who was not injured.
Police said the driver of the Cougar was given a ticket for failure to control speed.
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