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| The location was identified as a retail center known as the “B&A Center” at 201 East 1st. |
The location was identified as a retail center known as the “B&A Center” located at 201 East 1st, St. within the City Limits of Mount Pleasant. The B&A Center is a building which houses several independent businesses, including an automotive shop and a restaurant.
Deputies also heard what they believed to have been someone moving things around inside, a sound they believed to be consistent with someone preparing to barricade the entrance to that portion of the building.
Members of the Titus County Sheriff’s Office Emergency Response Team (ERT) and several Mount Pleasant Police Department Officers responded to aid in containing the suspected fugitive inside the building.
At that time, the Titus County Sheriff’s Investigator prepared and presented an affidavit for a search warrant to District Judge Robert Rolston, authorizing the officers to make entry into the building and to search for Flores.
Deputies had prior knowledge of Flores having been armed in the past, while he was already a felon. Deputies also heard the male inside the building make statements to the effect, that he was “not going back to prison.”
For these reasons, the Emergency Response Team Crisis Negotiator was summoned to the scene who - along with Flore’s relatives - attempted to talk Flores into surrendering. With those efforts failing, a chemical teargas devise was deployed into the building; still Flores would not exit the building.
Only after all other efforts to get Flores to peacefully exit the building had failed, members of both the Titus County Sheriff’s Office and Mount Pleasant Police Department’s Emergency Response Teams made entry into the building.
Once inside, the officers observed that the suspect(s) had apparently broken through partition walls and ceilings causing extensive damage while attempting to hide within other compartments of the adjoining restaurant. During the search of the building, evidence of possession of methamphetamine was found in the area where Flores was believed to have been residing.
Eventually, Eduardo Flores and a 20-year old female accomplice Harlee Hill were found hidden inside a cabinet and both were subsequently arrested for multiple offenses and warrants.
Eduardo Flores was arrested for the following offenses:
• Felony Revocation of Parole Warrant
• Criminal Mischief in Excess of $2500.00 and Under $30,000.00, a State Jail Felony
• Possession of a Controlled Substance Penalty Group 1, less than 1 Gram, a State Jail Felony
• Failure To Appear Evading Arrest/Detention, a Class A Misdemeanor (Warrant)
• Failure To Appear Driving With License Previously Suspended. (Warrant)
• Failure To Appear (Warrant)
• No Driver’s License or Expired Driver’s License (Warrant)
• Failure to Appear (Warrant)
• Alcoholic Beverage /Open Container (Warrant)
• Possession of Drug Paraphernalia (Warrant)
Harlee Breeann Hill was arrested for the following offenses:
• Criminal Mischief in Excess of $2500.00 and Under $30,000.00, a State Jail Felony
• Possession of a Controlled Substance Penalty Group 1, less than 1 Gram, a State Jail Felony
• Hindering Arrest or Prosecution
UPDATE: The El Pollo Ranchero restaurant will be closed today, Friday, April 8, 2016, due to a burglary that occurred at out location earlier this morning.
"We are working on fixing all the damages done to our establishment in order to reopen tomorrow, April 9, 2016. I also want to thank the Mount Pleasant Police Department and Mount Pleasant Sheriff's Office for their hard work this morning and for catching both suspects. Job well done!!!"
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| Flores was living inside a garage owned and operated by one of his relatives. |
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