LITTLE ROCK — An Ohio man was arrested early Sunday morning after being chased by North Little Rock police in a pursuit where all traffic laws were “obeyed,” arrest reports said.
Antwane Williams, 30, a Pine Bluff native living in Sandusky, Ohio, and Terrance Coleman, 29, were both arrested at 5:30 a.m. after a pursuit with North Little Rock police where all speed limits and stop signs were observed, reports said.
According to witnesses, the two men were at the 2512 Arkansas 161 Waffle House around 5 a.m. when Williams, who was “cussing and acting crazy,” pointed a handgun at people in the open-all-night restaurant.
The two took off. Police caught up with their maroon Dodge vehicle in the 2400 block of Arkansas 161 and followed them all the way to Walton Circle, where the driver, Coleman, and Williams stepped out of their car and were arrested at gunpoint, according to reports.
Police found two handguns in the car, reports said.
When an officer smelled marijuana, Williams confided he had stashed roughly six grams of the drug “in [his] ass,” reports said.
Williams was charged with aggravated assault, carrying a weapon and a misdemeanor count of possession of marijuana.
Coleman was charged with fleeing, obstruction of governmental operations and carrying a weapon, all misdemeanors.
Williams remained at the jail Sunday night, where he was being held without bail.
Ohio man jailed in bar-tab argument
An Ohio man was arrested in Little Rock early Sunday morning after he tried walking away from a $46 bar tab, reports said.
Staff members at Midtown Billiards called police to their 1318 S. Main St. business for help with a disturbance between staff members and Nathan Bixenstine, 23, who was arguing over his tab shortly before 5:10 a.m, reports said.
According to police, Bixenstine tried walking out without paying and all of his credit cards were declined.
Police found a bag of suspected marijuana in his pocket, and the Shaker Heights man was arrested and charged with misdemeanor theft of services, possession of marijuana and public intoxication.
Woman accused
of biting brother
A woman was arrested and charged with aggravated assault after she bit her brother on the wrist like a “snapping turtle” early Sunday morning, police said.
According to Lindey Beaver, who called police in North Little Rock to his 115 Farmere Circle home shortly before 2 a.m., he was in bed when his sister came into his room with a knife and attacked him.
Beaver told police hedidn’t “provoke” his sister, Melissa Fletcher, 46, who he said suffers from “mental issues” and had attacked him in the past.
Beaver told officers he used pillows as a shield from the knife before he was able to disarm her.
Fletcher then “latched on to [his right wrist] like a snapping turtle,” reports said, drawing blood.
Fletcher was charged with felony aggravated assault on a family member as well as third-degree domestic battery.
She remained at the Pulaski County jail Sunday night, where she was being held without bail.
Gun pulled after wreck, police say
A North Little Rock woman was arrested early Saturday night after witnesses told police she pulled a gun on someone over a traffic collision.
According to an unidentified witness, the victim and a woman later identified as Jana Martin were both driving on East Broadway in North Little Rock when their vehicles collided.
The victim told police the two pulled over to exchange information, when Martin “displayed a handgun, chambered a round and then pointed the handgun at the victim,” reports said.
The man fled in his vehicle, reports said, but the suspect followed him.
Police found Martin, of 5608 Oak Grove, in the 600 block of North Locust Street around 5:30 p.m. and found a gun in her car, reports said.
She was charged with aggravated assault and taken to the Pulaski County jail.
Arkansas, Pages 9 on 12/24/2012