Updated Monday evening with vehicle burglary information from College Station police:
Police in Bryan and College Station received a combined 32 burglary reports on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. 26 involved vehicles. In College Station, where 15 vehicles were hit, nearly all the incidents involved smashed windows to gain entry, most took place in the area of Harvey and Dartmouth between Thursday night at 11 and Friday morning at 7, and the main target was high end car audio components such as stereo display panels and amplifiers. In Bryan, 6 of 11 vehicles were unlocked. More than $5,000 dollars in property was taken. Bryan police are also looking into breakins at four homes and one business, where more than $13,000 dollars of items were taken. All but one involved forced entry.
An undercover investigation by College Station police results in finding more than $180,000 dollars in illegal drugs. According to the arrest report, detectives obtained a search warrant to check out a hotel room last Thursday at Homewood Suites on University. No one was in the room when officers did their search, then they waited in the parking lot and arrested 22 year old Stephen Petty-John of Missouri City when he returned. Most of the seized drugs were in the room but some was also found on the guest and in his vehicle. According to a report from the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the value of the seized cocaine was $98,350, marijuana $15,374, and methamphetamine $6,700. Also seized was enough Xanax that the estimated retail value from online pharmacy websites was a minimum $59,480. Petty-John remains jailed Monday afternoon on bonds totaling $90,000 dollars.
For the second time in three years, a College Station man is arrested for possessing hundreds of pictures of child pornography. 61 year old James Daves-Peterson was released in February after serving five months in prison and placed on ten years probation following an arrest in 2013. According to the arrest report, after failing a lie detector test, Peterson met his probation officer and College Station police last Wednesday afternoon at a storage unit. That’s where authorities found 172 pages containing 471 photos of children ranging in age from infants to 12 years old. Peterson was arrested on ten new possession counts and is jailed in lieu of bonds totaling $100,000 dollars.
Bryan police reported an eight year old boy escaped serious injury after he was thrown three times by his father in their house Memorial Day weekend. 35 year old Clifford Hart was arrested last Thursday and was released from jail after posting bond, which was reduced from $75,000 to $10,000 dollars. According to the arrest report, Hart said he lost his temper after his son got into a fight with his step-sister. But Hart denied throwing his son into a TV, then into the metal frame of a couch, then into a table. Hart dropped off his son at the hospital and texted his ex-wife to get him. The victim was treated for non-life threatening injuries.
Freedom was short for a Bryan man who is back in the Brazos County jail. Bryan police arrested 23 year old Restevin Anderson for a May 6th armed robbery at the Reveille Ranch apartments. Anderson is accused of taking more than $1,400 dollars of electronics at gunpoint from three men. Anderson returned to jail Friday afternoon, after he was released Thursday morning from a prior arrest for possessing a personal use quantity of marijuana.
College Station police arrested a local man, whose ex-financee says broke into her home Sunday night and took two computers and other personal property. 42 year old Spencer Bruegger is out of jail after posting a $50,000 dollar bond.
