LITTLE ROCK — LR robber sought after bank holdup
Police are looking for a man who robbed a Little Rock bank late Tuesday afternoon.
About 3:20 p.m., Little Rock police were called to the First Security Bank at 4936 W. Markham St. and met with two bank clerks who said a robber had fled, running west along West Markham Street.
Department spokesman Sgt. Cassandra Davis said there were only two employees inside the bank when the robber walked in. He did not display a weapon or indicate he had one, Davis said, but he handed one of the employees a note that demanded money.
The robber, described as a black male in his late teens with “bushy” hair and wearing a purple hooded sweatshirt and black pants, is still at large.
Disrobing LR man subdued in street
After being forced off a city bus and knocking his head on the mirror of a car stopped at a red light, a Little Rock man was shot with an electric stun gun by police after he started “getting naked” in a public thoroughfare Tuesday morning, police said.
The suspect, Jon Thomas Smith, 27, of 1871 Ringo St., tried walking onto a Central Arkansas Transit bus in the 2800 block of W. Seventh St. about 9:50 a.m., but refused to pay, according to police reports.
The driver told officers that Smith went to the back of thebus and sat down, and that she told him to get off if he wasn’t going to pay.
He exited, came back on - this time after paying - reports said, and started “cussing and acting strange,” and came after the bus driver as though to fight her. She pushed him away from her, reports said, and three passengers were able to hold him down, officers were told.
Before police arrived, two of the passengers forced Smith off the bus, where he approached a car stopped at a light and tried to get in with its two occupants. The doors were locked, reports said, and Smith then knocked his head against a mirror.
When police arrived, Smith did not cooperate, and they used a stun gun to get him into handcuffs, reports said.
Smith was arrested andcharged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest and taken to a local hospital, where he was later released.
Two bandits hit convenience store
No arrests have been made in the Monday night robbery of a Little Rock convenience store.
About 8:09 p.m., a clerk at the 2811 W. Markham St. E-Z Mart said a man walked through the door and put a gun to his face.
The clerk said that he handed over money from the register and the gunman, accompanied by a lookout who stood at the door during the robbery, ran westbound along West Markham Street.
Both robbers were described as black males wearing all black, including black bandannas over their faces.
In June 2011, two men, one of them wearing a “Halloween wig,” robbed the store at gunpoint.
In May, a clerk at the store was pistol-whipped and then shot twice in the foot in a Friday night robbery.
Arkansas, Pages 15 on 11/28/2012