LITTLE ROCK — Ceiling clinger held in burglary
While searching for a suspect in one burglary, police found another in progress and the suspect hanging from the ceiling of a Little Rock business early Monday morning.
Officers were searching up and down the 3700 block of West 12th Street for a residential burglar about 1 a.m. when they noticed the front door of the 3700 W. 12th St. Kentucky Fried Chicken had been pried open.
Police went inside to search, reports said, and found a man “hanging from the ceiling.” The man was equipped with a bag of tools, including a voltage tester. Along with the tools, officers said they found several large copper wires that had been cut from the ceiling.
Police arrested Scotty McClina, 46, who is listed as homeless, and charged him with one count of commercial burglary.
He remained in the Pulaski County jail early Monday night where he was being held in lieu of $25,000 bond.
Cable-bill tussle leads to 2 arrests
A Little Rock man and his nephew were arrested Sunday morning in a scuffle that started over a cable bill and injured the family’s 92-year-old matriarch.
According to police reports, Paul Dailey, 41, claimed he was asleep in his 1622 Gaines St. bedroom when his uncle, Stanley Cash, 57, came in and started choking him shortly before 8 a.m.
According to Cash, he was upset because their “cable bill was too high” and the two started fighting.
During the struggle, Cash’s mother - and Dailey’s grandmother - Lucille Cash, tried to intervene and she was thrown to the ground, leaving the 92-year-old woman with a cut on her knee that required treatment at a hospital.
Officers arrested both men and charged them with second-degree domestic battery, a felony.
The men also were charged with a separate count of misdemeanor domestic battery.
Cash remained at the Pulaski County jail in lieu of a $2,500 bond. His nephew, Dailey, was still being held in lieu of a $5,000 bond early Monday night.
Two shot, injured on Base Line Road
Little Rock Police are investigating an early Monday morning shooting that sent two Little Rock men to the hospital, according to a police report.
About 3:30 a.m., officers arrived at 9700 Base Line Road to find Edward Morten, 35, and Ken Cooney, 27, both residents of apartments at the location, suffering from gunshot wounds inside an apartment neither owned, the incident report states.
A witness told police he was standing outside with Morten and Cooney when a vehicle stopped on the east side of the apartment complex.
A man got out of the car and fired several shots from an assault rifle into the parking lot, the report said.
The vehicle fled the complex eastbound on Winston Road, and Morten and Cooney were taken to UAMS Medical Center with injuries that were not considered life-threatening.
Arkansas, Pages 9 on 07/24/2012