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We’d like to thank the Texarkana Texas Police Department for #savingchristmas and arresting three wanna be Grinches! We’d also like to know what on earth these three men thought they were accomplishing. You gotta read about this adventure!
We arrested three guys a few days before Christmas after they tried to steal people’s Christmas.
A FedEx driver said that he jumped out of his truck to deliver a package at a business in the 3100 block of New Boston Road. As he was going back to the truck, it suddenly took off following a dark colored van. He ran after it but lost sight of it after about a block and called 911 to report what had happened. A couple of minutes later, a passerby stopped and told him that his truck was abandoned behind a shopping center at New Boston and Robison Roads. The truck was there, but several packages were missing from the back.It was just a couple minutes later that we got a suspicious circumstances call about packages being thrown out of a red van as it was being driven down Blanton Street. After finding several FedEx packages laying on the side of the street, Officer Dacota Taylor located a van matching the description of the suspect vehicle in the FedEx vehicle theft parked in the 600 block of Blanton. When he knocked on the door of the house, a couple of guys answered it but immediately slammed the door on him when they saw that he was a police officer. A woman then came out of the house with her children and said that the men who’d just come back with the van were in the house. She gave us permission to search her house, and we found the three guys – one had locked himself in the bathroom and another was hiding up in the attic. Inside their van, we found several more FedEx packages and new items that matched up to the empty boxes that we’d picked up from the side of the road a few blocks away.Elijah Fitts, Noah Valdez, and Roland Gipson all went to jail for Unauthorized Use of a Vehicle and Burglary of a Vehicle. Gipson caught an additional charge of Possession of a Controlled Substance after officers found drugs in his pocket as they were searching him at the scene.Christmas was saved.
