Police vehicle destroys house on Faber’s Road
Police also figured prominently in this next story, but not in a particularly flattering way. Imagine spending the night at a family member’s home and in the wee hours of the morning you’re awakened by at telephone call that a wayward vehicle literally broke your house down. That is what happened to fifty-five year old Orlando Lanza and his common-law wife of Faber’s Road.
Orlando Lanza
“When we came we meet the house mashed up. The truck ran into the house. We weren’t here that night, my little brother was taking care of it.”
Ann-Marie Williams
“You were telling me that maybe you would have died if you were here.”
Orlando Lanza
“That’s right, the bed is mashed up. I wanted to come yesterday, but she told me not to come. I would have had to been shovelled up this morning.”
Ann-Marie Williams
“So it’s almost like luck.”
Orlando Lanza
“That’s right.”
Ann-Marie Williams
“Describe the condition in your house. Is there anything that’s save?”
Orlando Lanza
“No, just the clothes. Everything cracked up.”
Ann-Marie Williams
“Tell me about some of the conditions of the things. The bed is broken, table.”
Orlando Lanza
“The table is broken, chairs, dishes, two gas range stoves, because I do baking. I make bread and bun to sell. The pots are mashed up.
Ann-Marie Williams
“You said that they ran into the lamp post?”
Orlando Lanza
“Yes. They ran into the lamp post and after they knocked it down it landed inside the bedroom.”
Lanza says his brother was sleeping inside of the house, luckily on the sofa in the living room, when a police vehicle barged in.
Orlando Lanza
“From my experience I’ve never saw, and I can’t prove it, but the condition or what I understood was that maybe the driver was out for some jollification because they met him with a young lady about nineteen or eighteen years old in the truck. He got outside and forgot the young lady inside. The lady got unconscious, so according to the report my little sister told me, when the other police came they asked if anybody else was in there. They had to tell them that the young lady was in there, so they took her out, reversed the truck and took it.
Lanza told News 5 that the police say they will replace their furnishings, but he’s heard no offer concerning repairs to the house. The Police Department did not mention the incident in their daily report nor have they responded to News 5’s request for the police officer’s name and whether any charges have been filed against him.
