An Orange police officer patrolling a 16th Street alley looking for burglars Wednesday night ended up catching a bicyclist carrying drugs. A 31-year-old transient was arrested.
A little after 9 p.m. Wednesday, Officer N.R. Medina was driving his patrol vehicle in the alley of the 1100 block of 16th Street. The patrol was part of extra surveillance because of several business burglaries in the past two months.
He reported he saw a man in the alley riding a pink and white children’s bike. The officer tried to talk to the bicyclist, but the man rode the bike down Curtis Avenue where concrete barriers prevented the police vehicle from going.
The officer said he saw the man turn onto 14th Street and the officer traveled to cut off the man. He reached him on Park Avenue and stopped the man for a traffic violation of riding a bike on a pedestrian sidewalk.
The man had a grocery bag hanging from the handlebars. Officer Medina reported he saw the man drop something that turned out to be a syringe.
Other officers arrived to help and they found two red plastic baggies in the grocery bag. One baggie had marijuana and the other had methamphetamine.
Brock Dwayne Elliott was arrested and taken to the Orange County Jail. He faces a misdemeanor possession of marijuana charge and a charge of possession of a dangerous drug, a third degree felony.
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