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Wednesday March 16, 2005
News
Deputy finds disrobed man inside car in ditch
By Steve Nash
 Brownwood Bulletin
A sheriff's investigator was in for a surprise when he checked on a vehicle parked in a ditch, and saw a naked man sitting in the driver's seat. A pornographic magazine was in the seat next to the man, investigator Brian Lundy's report states.
The 27-year-old Early man, who hastily tried to clothe himself as Lundy approached, was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct, a Class C misdemeanor, jail records show.
Lundy was driving on County Road 405 at 11 a.m. Monday when he stopped to check on the Jeep in the ditch, Lundy's report states.
Lundy initially saw that the man was shirtless, and asked if he was all right or if he had a vehicle problem. The man said he was just getting away from home, Lundy's report states.
"The subject was acting odd, like other subjects I had encountered who had been using ... methamphetamine," Lundy's report states.
Lundy parked, then approached the driver's side and saw that the man was naked, with his underwear around his ankles. "I'm so embarrassed," Lundy's report quoted the man as saying.
Lundy searched the man's Jeep and found a package of syringes and a bag with items including measuring spoons, snorting straws and a baggie with a trace amount of possible methamphetamine, Lundy's report states.
A drug-related charge will be filed if a lab test shows that the substance in the baggie was methamphetamine, the report states.
In an unrelated incident, a cleaning crew at Brownwood High School found an open window on the second floor of the Brownwood High School student center. An amplifier from the choir room was found on the roof.
Police did respond to an alarm report at the high school Saturday and did not find anyone inside. Police found an unlocked door at the student center. Police speculate that someone used a ladder to get onto a covered walkway, got inside the building and left through the door that was found unlocked.
Authorities are investigating other unrelated incidents including:
* A man told police a woman he did not know knocked on his door in the 400 block of West Chandler and asked to use the rest room. The man allowed her to do so. After she left, the man discovered that his wallet had been removed from some jeans that were draped across a chair in another room. The woman left the wallet behind but removed $950, the man told police.
* Two boys in foster care, ages 13 and 14, got in a fight while playing backyard basketball on Country Road 354. One of the boys started the fight because he was angry that he was losing, and one boy sustained a broken bone in his finger, a foster parent told deputies.
* A 20-year-old Brownwood man, Selso Martinez, was arrested on a felony charge of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and on misdemeanor charges while police investigated a hit-and-run accident. A deputy was involved in the investigation because the vehicle involved in the accident, a 1952 Ford F-250 pickup, had disappeared from outside a home on FM 3254 during a birthday party.
* A 52-year-old Brownwood man was charged with making a terroristic threat after a witness told police he heard the man threaten to shoot two women.
The man told officer Johnny Jackson he exchanged words with two women after one of them bumped into him in the EZ Mart store, 101 CC Woodson, and knocked a cigarette out of his mouth.
The witness heard the man call out to a passenger in his vehicle, which was parked outside the store, to bring him his shotgun, Jackson's report states.
The man cursed at Jackson and called him a Nazi, the report states.
* A man told police a guitar and amplifier, which is had been keeping for his sister who is in the Navy, had disappeared. The man saw the items in a local pawn shop.
* Someone took a guitar from a home in the 2400 block of Monticello.
* Someone took CD players from vehicles parked in the 1600 block of Sixth and the 1800 block of Fourth.
* Someone took a cell phone and purse from a vehicle parked in the 1600 block of Avenue I.
* Police arrested a 25-year-old Brownwood woman on a DWI charge after she drove her vehicle through a pipe fence at Borden and Coleman.
* Police investigated a domestic disturbance in which two brothers got in a fight in the 100 block of Broadmoor Circle.
* A 26-year-old Early man, Audey Mitchell, was arrested on a felony charge of possession of a controlled substance and on a misdemeanor charge of possession of drug paraphernalia after a traffic stop at West Adams and Center. The man was also arrested on outstanding misdemeanor warrants.
* Someone drove a truck through a yard in the 2000 block of Avenue D. Police found the truck parked in the 2400 block of Coggin. The man was arrested on a charge of public intoxication and on outstanding warrants.
* A man told police he got out of prison, and returned home to find his record collection was missing. The man had been collecting records since he was 12 and had 2,000 88 RPM records and 1,000 45 rpm records.
* Someone took items including a television, a DVD player, a CD player, a tackle box, tools and filet knives from a home in the 6900 block of Shamrock Drive.
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