Orange Grove Police Department

10/06/2025

Join us tomorrow evening at The Grove!
October 7th
6pm-8pm!

Come out and enjoy hotdogs, popcorn, and games tomorrow evening in the grove parking lot for National Night Out!!

07/02/2025

We wish everyone a happy and safe upcoming Independence Day! As a reminder, fireworks are ILLEGAL within city limits. Violators will be fined. To report, please call the non-emergency number 361-668-0341.

09/26/2024

04/16/2024

On this National Telecommunicators Week, the City of Orange Grove and the Orange Grove Police Department presented the Jim Wells County Telecommunicators a small token of appreciation for their hard work and dedication to the public. The Jim Wells County Sheriff’s Department Telecommunicators dispatch for not only the Orange Grove Police Department but also the Orange Grove Fire Department.

12/20/2023

Officer Ray Rivera of the Orange Grove Police Department along with the Dollar Store in Orange Grove organized a toy drive over the past few weeks. All the toy donations were delivered to the children at the Orange Grove Primary School today.

11/14/2023

Lieutenant Rey Aguilar of the Orange Grove Police Department along with Investigator Robert Vasquez of the 79th Judicial District Attorney’s Office met with Seniors today. The main topic was interactions with police but also covered other topics including va**ng and the seriousness of the consequences now that they are 17 and 18 year olds. We would like to thank the OG Senior class for being attentive and asking some awesome questions.

11/05/2023

The Orange Grove Police Department wants to commend all the different agencies and the public who assisted in this apprehension. It was our honor assisting and being part of this great team work.

10/19/2023

On October 18, 2023 Orange Grove Police Officer Karstedt observed Russel Channing Bynum driving a Chevy pickup. Knowing Bynum had felony warrants officer Karstedt initiated a traffic stop on the vehicle and along with the assistance of the Jim Wells County Pct. 5 Constable Arismendez and Jim Wells County Deputy Bowen took Bynum into custody and transported him to the Jim Wells County Jail and booked on 4 felony warrants.

09/28/2023

Here is a press release from yesterday’s court proceedings at the Corpus Christi Federal Courthouse.

United States Attorney’s Office
Southern District of Texas
Alamdar S. Hamdani – U.S. Attorney
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Angela Dodge
Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023
Public Affairs Officer
SDTX.gov | | USAOSDTX
[email protected]
Fraudster sent to prison for back-to-back fraud scheme

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A 39-year-old Orange Grove woman has been ordered to federal prison following her convictions of fraud and identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.

Katrina Theiss Freitag pleaded guilty to Fraudulent use of a Social Security number on April 5, 2022. Prior to sentencing Freitag committed additional fraudulent conduct and plead guilty to aggravated identity theft April 17.

U.S. District Judge Drew B. Tipton has now ordered Freitag to serve 80 months in federal prison to be immediately followed by three years of supervised release for fraudulent use of a Social Security number. She will also receive two years for aggravated identity theft which must be served consecutively for a total 104-month sentence. At the hearing, the court heard that Freitag was involved in an additional fraud scheme while working for another employer and statements from victims of Freitag’s schemes.

From 2012 to 2017, Freitag worked for a commercial insulation company as a bookkeeper who handled day-to-day business activities including finances. She obtained unauthorized cash advances using the companies’ receivables as collateral. Freitag used the owner’s Social Security number and signed the owner’s name to the cash advance documents without authorization. She executed five unauthorized secure merchant agreements over seven months. The company incurred a loss of $580,000 because of Freitag’s scheme.

Freitag pleaded guilty April 5, 2022, to two counts of fraudulent use of Social Security number in a loan scheme. After this plea, she was permitted to remain on bond.

Freitag then began working for a Corpus Christi pawn shop as a bookkeeper. The manager discovered several suspicious credit card transactions on the owner’s credit card account. The investigation revealed Freitag made unauthorized online charges for groceries, payments to a tax preparation company and her personal cell phone bill. There was an also a forged company check electronically deposited into Freitag’s bank account. Freitag was remanded into custody after this scheme and pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft related to use of the pawn shop owner’s credit card account without authorization.

Freitag will remain in custody pending transfer to a U.S. Bureau of Prisons facility to be determined in the near future.

The FBI conducted the investigation with the assistance of the Orange Grove Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Robert D. Thorpe Jr. and John Marck prosecuted the case.

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08/21/2023