OPD Makes Second Heroin Arrest in a Week
Orange police Monday confiscated nine small baggies of heroin weighing a total of about two-tenths of an ounce. It was the second heroin arrest within a week.
Detective Captain Robert Enmon said “that’s a lot of heroin.” The drug weighed 5.3 grams, which is nearly two-tenths of an ounce.
59-year-old Joe Leslie Hudson Jr. of the Bridge City area man was arrested and is facing felony charges of a controlled substance.
The arrest came after a traffic stop on Edgar Brown Drive by Walmart at 12:47 p.m. Two narcotics officers reported they were behind a Dodge Ram pickup. They reported the truck failed to signal a turn and they stopped it for the traffic violation.
Pistol Missing from Hillbrook House
A homeowner in the Hillbrook subdivision, which had houses flood during Imelda, discovered a pistol was missing when he went to check on remodeling progress.
Police report workers for a contractor have been in the house. The missing pistol is Sig Sauer P238 .380 ACP.
Thief Cashes Check to Church
A woman who mailed a check to her church told Orange police the check was cashed even though the church never received it.
The woman said she had been out of town and mailed the check to Faith United Methodist Church on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive on November 1. When she called the church to see about the donation, she learned the church did not get it.
The woman told police she then called her bank to cancel the payment. She learned the check had been cashed on November 7.
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