A call from a citizen Thursday afternoon led Orange police to arrest two men suspected of breaking into a vacant commercial building at 1212 Park Avenue.
The caller at 3 p.m. gave police descriptions of two men he saw leaving the building with two large, heavy box fans. A patrol officer said he arrived quickly and saw a man matching a description pulling a box fan.
Another officer reporting finding another man pulling a box fan close to a nearby pawn shop.
The owner of the building identified the fans and officers discovered the back door had been forced open.
Police arrested Jeffrey Ray Moore (left) of Orange and Landsing Herbert Fellman, who has a rural Orange County address. Both are facing charges of burglary of a building.
A woman living in the 6200 block of Rosewood Drive in the Cypress Bayou subdivision reported a burglary Thursday morning. She told police she was going to do yardwork and discovered equipment was missing from her garage.
Thursday night about 11:30, a security guard at the Fox Run apartment complex, 2600 Allie Payne Road, told police he had discovered that three units in one of the buildings had had forced entry.
Police reported that a four-vehicle collision at 12:30 p.m. Thursday was caused by a driver having a seizure and losing control of his car. The driver, 30-year-old Joseph Scott of Beaumont, was taken by Acadian Ambulance to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont. Police categorized his injuries as non-incapacitating.
Scott was driving a 2004 Lincoln Town Car on Edgar Brown Drive at the intersection with Strickland Drive. Police said he lost control and went into the turning lane where his car hit a 2012 Chevrolet C1500 pickup truck. Then the Lincoln hit a 2017 Ford Expedition in the rear, forcing the Expedition into a the back of 2017 GMC Sierra pickup. None of the other three drivers were injured.
-Margaret Toal, KOGT-
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