A Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck early Sunday morning left the roadway, knocked down a tree hit the brick bedroom wall of a house in the Greenway Park subdivision.
No one was at home at 12:48 a.m. Sunday when the truck ran up the brick wall. Inside the house, a bed was located against the wall that was hit.
The driver of the truck had run from the scene when Orange police arrived. Police reported the 2012 Chevrolet had been traveling eastbound on Glenhurst. The house that was hit is along a curb and on Monday, tire tracks could be seen in the next door neighbor’s yard leading to the house that was hit.
The truck is registered to a man who lives in Pinehurst.
Later Sunday morning, Orange police got a man off the Interstate 10 Sabine River Bridge where he had been standing in traffic. He told officers he had smoked methamphetamine.
Officers said calls had come about the man in traffic and they found him about 5:30 a.m. They got him into a patrol car and took him out of traffic to the nearby Texas Travel Information Center.
According to the police report, the 36-year-old transient was speaking fast and was unable to remain in one place. The man told the officers he had smoked meth. He was arrested for misdemeanor public intoxication.
A man carrying a “large sword” on his back was arrested for marijuana early Friday morning after Orange police stopped him for walking on the wrong side of the street.
Police stopped the man in the 4000 block of Meeks Drive at 1:43 a.m. Friday. A detective on patrol reported the man was walking with the flow of traffic instead of against traffic. It is legal in Texas to openly carry a sword or knife.
Detective Captain Robert Enmon said law agencies have increased patrols because of car burglaries and more people are being stopped at night for violating ordinances.
The arresting officer said the man also had a large fixed-blade knife in his back pocket. The man told officers he had marijuana and they found the weed in a jar.
35-year-old Colby A. Bellard of Orangefield was arrested for misdemeanor possession of marijuana and taken to the Orange County Jail.
Three more car burglaries were reported to Orange police from Friday through Sunday. Two were in the Pinemont subdivision off Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. The other was on Bob Hall Road.
Detective Captain Robert Enmon said law agencies have increased patrols, particularly in subdivisions, hoping to catch the burglars who have been going through neighborhoods stealing from unlocked vehicles. He said on random nights the officers are out in force looking for the thieves.
Also during the weekend, owners reported that thieves had been at houses damaged by Tropical Storm Harvey. Friday afternoon, a representative of Golden Triangle Investments from Beaumont, reported that two repaired houses had copper stolen with an estimated total damage of $5,000.
A woman with a house in the 3500 block of Ridgemont Drive notified police Saturday afternoon that someone had stolen items from her house. Police said the woman had not been at the house in about two weeks. A relative had gone to the house and notified the woman about the missing items.
-Margaret Toal, KOGT-
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