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.