An armed robbery was reported early Sunday morning at the Country Store on the corner of 16th Street and Interstate 10. Orange Police Detective Captain Robert Enmon said the robber might be the same man who held up the Dollar General two weeks earlier.
The clerk at the Country Store called police at 1:25 a.m. to report the robbery. The clerk said the man threatened to shoot if he did not get cash. The robber got the cash and ran off. The clerk did not see the direction.
The robber was dressed in an orange shorts and black shirt. His face was covered.
A second robbery reported during the holiday weekend is considered a strongarm robbery. It started as a shoplifting, but became a robbery when the thief fought employees at The Horseman Store and bit a woman on the arm.
“Anytime you commit a theft and use force, it becomes a robbery,” Captain Enmon said.
Police went to the store off Interstate 10 at 12:36 p.m. Saturday. Employees said a man grabbed three fire resistant work shirts worth a total of $200 and walked.
The man got inside a vehicle to leave, but employees had followed him and blocked his way. He fought against the employees and a woman was bruised and bitten. The patrol officer reported he had to use leg shackles on the man.
The officer said the man had been in the store “acting irrational.” The man also slurred his speech and had bloodshot eyes. The officer thought the man was intoxicated on a substance.
Acadian Ambulance took the man to the Medical Center of Southeast Texas to be cleared to be taken to the Orange County Jail.
Police report 33-year-old Earl Wynne Trahan Jr. faces a felony strongarm robbery charge. He had a county warrant issued for theft of a firearm, plus a municipal warrant for misdemeanor theft.
Police found a pickup truck upside down in a ditch Friday night, but the driver was not around.
Officers went to the site on Highway 87 North by Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School about 9:30 p.m. Friday. They found a 1996 green Chevrolet Silverado in the ditch, top down. The truck is registered to a Buna man.
Police report the truck had been traveling west on Medford Drive and was making a right turn onto Highway 87. The driver went too fast, lost control, and went into the ditch.
A resident in the Navy Park area Saturday night reported numerous guns had been stolen from a gun cabinet-safe. Police went to the house in the 2500 block of North Third Street at 10:15 p.m. The gun cabinet had been damaged as someone broke in it.
The missing guns are two .38 caliber pistols, a 9 mm pistol, a 40mm Smith and Wesson, two .22 caliber Winchester rifles, a Remington pistol and a 30-06 Remington.
The Texas Travel Information Center staff called police to report a terroristic threat that had been left in the guest registration. Detective Captain Robert Enmon said officers investigated, but think it was a young person trying a prank. The threat had “multiple misspelled common words and poor handwriting,” he said.
The information center off Interstate 10 called police about 4 p.m. Friday after seeing the threat in the book.
Who needs 8 weapons in their house?
What does that have to do with it? Absolutely nothing. If the man wants 80 firearms in his house, and he is a law abiding citizen, that is his right.
Agree with you Charles. The comment above was ignorant. There was no comment about the theft (the actual wrong doing) but one was made to belittle the owner that had his guns locked up. Must be one of those that think the gun is to blame for a nut misusing it-
Thanks.
Judy Granger you make no sense in what you are saying people can have as many guns in there house as they want
Judy and Rusty Granger, I dare say you have more than 8 weapons in your house, and you want to say something like this?
I agree with Charles. People need to leave their negative comments to their self. What is mine is mine.