Two men were arrested Saturday morning in Orange after reports of an exchange of gunshots on Clairmont Drive. No one was injured and the people involved had left by the time police arrived.
Orange officers were on the way to the 1000 block of Clairmont about 10 a.m. Saturday when dispatchers gave information that the suspects had fled the site in vehicles.
A patrol officer saw the described Chevrolet Camaro traveling southbound on 16th Street and got the car to stop in the parking lot of a business at 1700 MacArthur Drive. Officers drew their weapons, but the man driving the car surrendered without incident.
He told officers he had a gun in the car and they found a Beretta PX4 Storm subcompact with a chambered .40 caliber S&W. 24-year-old Jerquis Jerrod Beasley was arrested for unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon.
According to the police report, the man said he was going to the house to talk to a man. When he pulled his car up, the man and another man began firing at him. Officers said they found two bullet holes in the Camaro.
Also related to the incident, 19-year-old Treshawn Quincy Anderson of Orange was arrested on a misdemeanor warrant issued through Orange Municipal Court.
Orsange patrol officers chased a man through a large drainage ditch, across fences, and through brush Friday night before arresting a man who was wanted on a warrant for a parole violation.
In addition to the parole violation for a burglary conviction, Charles Matthew Farmer of Orange also faces the Class A misdemeanor of evading arrest.
Officer D.A. Dorman reported that a call concerning a verbal disturbance at the apartment complex at 3333 Ridgemont Drive came at 9:30 p.m. Friday.
While the officers were on the way, dispatch said the man had left the apartments riding a bicycle. Officer Dorman said he saw a man riding a bicycle near the site. The bike did not have a white light in the front, as required by law.
The officer turned his patrol car around to follow the bicycle and it started going faster. The bicyclist did not stop for the officer’s emergency lights. Dorman and Officer S. Mulhollan got out of the patrol car.
The bicyclist and police ended up running on foot through the apartment courtyard to the large ditch that separates the apartments from the nearby Roselawn subdivision.
The chase went through the ditch. The bicyclist got through the ditch, then went through trees, vines and other debris. He then climbed a chain-link fence to the back of the Home Depot parking lot. The officers kept up and found the man hiding by a brick wall at the store.
The man was arrested without incident and taken to the Orange County Jail.
-Margaret Toal, KOGT-
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