LITTLE ROCK — NLR man charged in rape of girl
North Little Rock police on Wednesday charged a 35-year-old man with rape, about a week after police say he told officers he took more than 100 sexually explicit photographs of a 9-year-old girl, according to a police news release.
Charles E. Coulter of 116 Montana St. was charged with rape after detectives learned he had “a sexual relationship with a minor female under the age of 10,” police spokesman Sgt. Terry Kuykendall wrote in the release.
In an interview, Kuykendall said investigators weren’t releasing whether the relationship was with a child Coulter admitted on Friday to photographing.
About 7:15 p.m. June 17, police officers were called to Coulter’s home regarding a sexually explicit text message he sent the 9-year-old, according to an arrest report. There, Coulter gave officers permission to view his computer, and they found the photographs depicting the child in “numerous sexually explicit poses,” the report said.
He was arrested on two counts of possessing material depicting sexually explicit conduct with a child and single counts of computer exploitation of a child and sexual indecency with a child, the report said.
He was being held Wednesday at the Pulaski County jail. Bail had not been set.
DWI arrest ends
NLR traffic stop
A 25-year-old man stopped Wednesday morning with a flask of bourbon and “a cold can of Sprite” in his sport utility vehicle faces a DWI charge after a test showed he had a blood-alcohol content of 0.26, according to an Arkansas State Police arrest report.
Jacob Paul Denton, who has “Lovin is what I got” tattooed on his stomach, was arrested at 11:13 a.m. after a trooper saw him speeding in a black Toyota 4Runner. The SUV was traveling 90 miles per hour in the northbound lane of Interstate 430 at the Arkansas 100 exit in North Little Rock, the report said. The speed limit there is 65 mph.
When the trooper approached the SUV, he smelled “a strong odor of intoxicants” coming from Denton, and found the flask and soda, the report said. Denton then failed a sobriety test, and about an hour later, his blood-alcohol content was determined to be more than three times Arkansas’ legal limit of 0.08, the report said.
Denton, who lists two addresses in Little Rock on the report, was arrested on charges of driving while intoxicated, speeding and failing to wear a seat belt, the report said. He was released on bond.
Arkansas, Pages 11 on 06/24/2010