Orange Police arrest suspect believed to be linked to Tuesday high-speed chase, Monday smash-and-grab after 3-hour standoff - 12newsnow.com KBMT-KJAC

ORANGE, Texas — Orange Police person arrested a fishy they judge is linked to a Tuesday greeting constabulary pursuit and a Monday greeting theft and consequent smash-and-grab aft a three-hour standoff. 

Officers successful tactical cogwheel surrounded an flat gathering astatine the James Zay Roberts Apartments astatine 610 Burton Avenue. 

12News has 2 crews connected the scene. Around 8 p.m. constabulary busted down the suspect's door, and they person made galore attempts to marque interaction with the suspect. Officers encouraged the fishy to "pick up a compartment telephone successful the surviving room," truthful they tin communicate. 

Residents successful the suspect's contiguous vicinity had been evacuated.

Police archer 12News the fishy was connected parole, but didn't corroborate for what his past charges were.

Around 8:30 p.m., the fishy was arrested. 

Tuesday's pursuit and crash

Tuesday's transgression spree began soon aft 5 a.m. Orange Police were progressive successful a pursuit involving a motortruck that was stolen from Freys Landscaping, Sgt. Nick Medina confirmed to 12News.

Owner of Freys Landscaping, Mark Frey, was alerted by a information strategy erstwhile the incidental occurred astatine his business.

He tells 12News the fishy tried to sprout unfastened the dormant bolt to get inside, but ended up breaking a model to entree the business, instead. 

"It hits home, you know, erstwhile they travel successful your concern and firearm done your bureau and your idiosyncratic things. It's the aforesaid arsenic for an entrepreneur, it's the aforesaid arsenic them robbing your house. This is our 2nd home," Frey said.

After the break-in, a pursuit started connected the Interstate 10 eastbound work roadworthy adjacent the Horseman’s Store. It went done Orange, on Green Avenue, and ended erstwhile the motortruck crashed into a canal adjacent Cordrey Avenue astatine 16th Street.

The operator fled aft the crash, and nary 1 was hurt.

Monday's smash-and-grab

Around 4 a.m. Monday, West Orange Police received a telephone astir a burglary astatine the West Orange-Cove CISD proscription building. When officers got to the scene, they discovered an SUV was missing.

Officials notified different instrumentality enforcement agencies successful the country astir the stolen SUV. 

Shortly aft 5 a.m., a Stateline Valero successful Orange reported that an SUV had crashed into the store.

Surveillance video shows a operator ramming into the store twice. A abstracted camera from wrong the store shows a antheral walking around, knocking implicit a show case, and grabbing the registry afloat of cash. After the robbery, the fishy fled successful the stolen SUV.

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Call 833-TIPS (8477) or download the P3Tips App on your mobile instrumentality to taxable your extremity anonymously.   

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