LITTLE ROCK — Liquor store visits lead to LR arrest
First Larry Crawford tried to hide booze in his pants so he could steal it, Little Rock police said.
Then the 38-year-old Little Rock man threatened a clerk at the News Mart liquor store, 304 S. Main St., and hinted he had a weapon by saying, "I got something under my shirt you don't want no part of," according to a police report,
After Crawford ran off, a clerk identified him by a photograph provided by police. Crawford then came back, and police arrested him near the store at about 4:40 p.m. Friday on a charge of aggravated robbery.
Crawford was held Friday night in the Pulaski County jail.
Sex offender faces charge in girl's rape
Little Rock police arrested a man on a 2004 rape charge Thursday.
Michael Williams, 47, of 1917 S. Gaines St. was charged in the rape of a girl, then about 12, who spent the night with Williams' daughter.
Williams is serving time in thePulaski County jail on another rape charge and a separate second-degree sexual assault charge. He was arrested earlier this month on charges he failed to register as a sex offender, police said.
Gunman bursts
into house to steal
At least one armed man barreled into a house Friday night on the 6600 block of Fourche Dam Pike in Little Rock, held a gun on a resident and stole items from the home, police said.
Because the incident was so fresh, police were still unsure a half-hour after the 9:20 p.m. robbery how many men broke into the house and did not know precisely what was taken. At least one armed man fled in a darkcolored Kia, police said.
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