An employee at Mailbox and More on Green Avenue notified Orange police about a suspicious box and officers found a controlled substance inside. Detective Captain Robert Enmon said the items were being sent from Orange to other places in the U.S.
No arrests have been made in connection with the incident, but Enmon said the man sending the box has been questioned.
According to the police report, officers went to the store about 3:30 p.m. Thursday. The man had come into the store earlier in the day and wanted a small box to ship something. When the employee asked what was going to be mailed, the man “was acting extremely nervous.”
She gave him a small box and he came back in the afternoon with a woman and the box to be mailed. The employee was suspicious and called police. Officers found the two bottles packed with loose paper towels and toilet paper.
Also on Thursday, two narcotics officers arrested a 52-year-old woman and confiscated three Dilaudid pills after a traffic stop. Sergeant Jason Laughlin reported stopping the woman on North 16th Street about 12:30 p.m. He asked the woman if she had a driver’s license and she replied ‘no.’
She then gave the officers permission to search her vehicle. Laughlin noticed she took her purse with her. After receiving permission to look in the purse, the officers found the pills. She did not have a prescription.
Loucinda Marie Lee of Little Cypress faces a charge of possession of a controlled substance.
A shoplifter attempted to steal four $99 bag coolers from a convenience store, but dropped three of them when he ran out of the business. Police went to the store at 333 Lutcher Drive about 10:45 a.m. Thursday. The clerk said a man came inside, grabbed four Andes Flex bags and ran.
Also on Thursday, police had a report of a burglary at the apartments at 53 Cove Drive. A man returned to his apartment and saw a broken window. A Playstation 4 had been stolen.
A bicyclist was taken by ambulance to a Beaumont hospital with minor injuries Thursday night after a collision with a Ford Expedition.
Police said the collision was at the intersection of Link Avenue and 16th Street about 9 p.m. The Expedition, driven by a 48-year-old woman from Orange, had been traveling eastbound on Link. The SUV was making a right turn on a red light when the bicyclist, traveling northbound on the 16th Street sidewalk, entered the intersection. The bike hit the front of the SUV, police said.
54-year-old Michael Peeples was taken by Acadian Ambulance to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont.
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