LITTLE ROCK — Jacksonville man charged in assault
Less than four months after being convicted of domestic battery, a Jacksonville man was arrested early Sunday after his girlfriend claimed he assaulted her when she went to pick him up from work.
Arrest reports said Stephanie Neppl went to the Love’s Travel Stop at 3920 Valentine Road shortly before 11:30 p.m. Saturday to pick up her boyfriend of three years, Timothy Mitchell, 29, of 200 Crestview Drive.
Neppl told police that Mitchell hit her in the face and then threatened her, saying she needed to take him to the police or else “something may happen,” reports said.
Mitchell was arrested and charged with a felony enhanced third-degree domestic battery.
He remained at the Pulaski County jail Sunday night where he was being held without bail.
Armed passenger blamed in crash
An unidentified man intentionally drove his vehicle off the road to escape from an armed passenger early Sunday.
The victim, whose name is not listed in North Little Rock police arrest reports, was at 605 E. Broadway when an unknown man got into the front passenger seat of his car and indicated he had a gun.
The man told the driver to take him to McCain Mall. The driver said “he feared that he would be shot if he attempted to flee” from the suspect and drove off on Interstate 40 East, according to reports.
When he was near the North Hills Boulevard exit, he intentionally drove off the road and crashed in a ditch.
The driver ran away. Police responding to the scene found Kevin Martin, 49, of Jacksonville still in the car at 1:30 a.m. and arrested him.
Martin was charged with first-degree false imprisonment, a felony, and booked at the Pulaski County jail, where he remained in lieu of a $10,000 bond.
2 arrested in theft of trailer in NLR
Two people were arrested Saturday afternoon shortly after they were alleged to have stolen a trailer loaded with a four-wheeler in a North Little Rock mall parking lot.
According to reports, a woman and a man were seen detaching the trailer from a truck in the McCain Mall parking lot and then latching it onto one of their trucks.
As the truck departed, the four-wheeler fell off the back of the trailer, but the truck kept going with the trailer.
North Little Rock police caught up with the suspect vehicle at a nearby hotel.
Jennifer Dodd, 36, of 3912 Jude Lane in Little Rock and Randall Coffman, 48, of England, were arrested and charged with two felony counts of theft of property.
Both remained at the Pulaski County jail Sunday night where they were being held in lieu of $5,000 bonds.
Arkansas, Pages 14 on 12/17/2012