At approximately 9:45am on December 7, 2016, Officers of the West Orange and Orange Police Departments located a green Mercedes Benz car travelling along FM 105 in Orange that was believed to have been stolen from a hotel earlier in the day in the Orange. Upon stopping this vehicle on a traffic stop, Officers discovered that the driver of this Mercedes was reported to be an escaped inmate from Calcasieu Parish Louisiana named Jonathon Alexander.
Further investigation into Alexander’s possession of this Mercedes Benz revealed that during the night of December 6, 2016, Alexander had abandoned the stolen white van from Louisiana and afterwards, he broke into a paint and body shop in West Orange Texas and stole a Toyota Corolla. After a malfunction with this vehicle, Alexander abandoned it at the Flying J Truck Stop in Orange and walked over to a hotel that was nearby and discovered the Mercedes Benz running in the parking lot at which time he stole it from there.
Alexander was taken into custody on the escape charge from Louisiana and the findings of the theft investigation of the other 2 vehicles in Orange will be forwarded to the Orange County District Attorney’s office for additional charges in Texas.
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