KNOWN FUGITIVE ARRESTED THURSDAY BY BRENHAM POLICE

  

A known fugitive of the law was arrested Thursday after Brenham Police spotted him in a vehicle.

Thursday at 5:20 PM, members of the Brenham Police Department Crime Reduction Unit along with Patrol conducted a traffic stop near the intersection of Highway 36 North and Blue Bell Road on a vehicle that was occupied by a known wanted fugitive identified as Eliazar Torres Garcia, 37 of Brenham.  During contact with Garcia, he was placed into custody after a brief attempt to resist his arrest.  Garcia was later transported to the Washington County Jail, where he was booked for Possession of a controlled substance, resisting arrest, search or transport, along with two felony warrants for Possession of a controlled substance, and evading arrest in a motor vehicle.