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Updated Saturday, September 04, 2010 10:56 PM

Traffic stop leads to arrest, charges

BY MARY JANE FARMER

HERALD DEMOCRAT

SHERMAN -- What began as a traffic stop resulted in the arrest of a 25-year-old Sherman man on drug charges.

Sherman Officer Brandon Toney stopped Shawn Lakeith Orr's vehicle on Center Street, reported Sherman police Sgt. Bruce Dawsey.

When Toney determined in the routine course of the stop that there was an outstanding warrant on Orr, he arrested him. Toney also found Orr in possession of suspected crack cocaine, marijuana, and $2,300 in cash, according to Dawsey. As this investigation moved along, police detectives searched an apartment on the west side of Sherman where Orr had been staying. There, Dawsey said, they found about 15 grams of crack cocaine and a loaded handgun.

Police added charges of manufacture-delivery of a controlled substance (crack cocaine), and possession of marijuana, both enhanced by being in a drug-free zone.

Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark said that Orr went to prison on a four-year sentence, handed down in April 2007 in Grayson County, on a charge of possession of cocaine between 1-4 grams, and also on a lesser sentence on a conviction of evading arrest. The prison system released him on mandatory supervision in June 2009, and he is to be on parole until February 2011, Clark reported.

Texas Board of Pardons & Paroles obtained and served a parole violation warrant against Orr once he was in Grayson County Jail, and this allows for no bail.

Dawsey said Sherman police seized the cash on Orr at the time of his arrest and will be filing civil forfeiture proceedings on it.



Comments ... 6 found!

To: A Liberal : 9/7/2010
Liberal, no, I do not think "throwing them in a cage for years on end with other criminals and treating them like animals" reforms them at all. In fact, I don't think most of them can be reformed, JUST LIKE THIS FOOL! Do you think letting them out and giving them all sorts of assistance and freebies at our expense reforms them??? Take this as a case in point that it doesn't! So, as I said, throw them in a cage and let them earn their keep or starve! If we did this, we would have far less of these people who didn't mind going back! It's called "punishment" and "accountability for your actions". I know it may be a foreign concept to some, but that's how it should be. There must be a deterrent to crime - not all of this talking and working with thugs. That clearly does NOT work!

Donny

a liberal... : 9/6/2010
Give it a break. The guy had two years of being locked up to think about his first mistake. He got out and had the choice to stay clean. He must not have hated prison too badly because he's going back for having the same substance that got him locked up the first time. Cocaine...twice. That's not "the system creating a hardened criminal". This is a guy criminal getting busted for doing what criminals do.

Al

justice? : 9/6/2010
Liberal this liberal that. You can sure tell we live in a right wing republican ran state. The justice system is a joke do you think throwing a criminal in a cage for years on end with other criminals and treating them like animals will reform them ignorant people like this make hardened criminals and then cry about the crime rate. People make mistakes oh except for all of you holyer than thou judgemental types. As long as were all trying out to be communist maybe we can just save the tax payers money and just shoot people before they even get a trial but then the upper middle class would still cry about having to pay for the bullets

a liberal

: 9/5/2010
Donny, don't you know these loosers have more rights than we do. We pay our taxes, our bills, our insurance etc..but we also have to pay for them to lift weights and take classes that some of us can't afford to take. I totally agree with you!!! Make them pay for their stay and food. they don''t work, they don't eat. Put em in tents like Az has done!

PB22QQ

Why not legalize it all? : 9/5/2010
I read about some guy who's just out of prison, still on parole, already has an outstanding warrant pending, getting caught with a vial of crack cocaine, a loaded handgun, enough cash it makes you at least suspect "dealer", and I begin to think about all the bleeding heart liberals who argue in favor of, "We should just legalize drugs."
Yeap, I know I want my kids riding their bikes down the same streets these kinds of people are operating motorized vehicles on.

NotAFanOfThePusherman

Hard Labor! : 9/5/2010
Gee, it sounds like he really learned his lesson didn't he? Prior convictions (I'm sure many) and been to prison on drug charges, gets out on probation, and right back to it like nothing ever happened! What a genius! People like this should be sent away for a LONG time but, they should have to earn their keep and NOT force the taxpayers to pay for them. Sentence them to HARD labor and make them work 12 hours per day doing something that would pay for themselves. This would save the taxpayers the burden caused by these illiterate morons AND force the criminals to work for their living like every honest American has to do! Unfortunately, the liberals would probably cry and whine that making them work was cruel and unusual punishment!

Donny
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