LITTLE ROCK — Woman hides beer, still gets DWI
A Little Rock woman had her son hide a can of beer during a traffic stop early Wednesday night, but she was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated nonetheless.
Pulaski County sheriff ’s deputies on patrol spotted a black pickup driving 54 mph in a 35-mph zone about 7:20 p.m. in the 18300 block of Lawson Road.
They initiated a stop and when they approached driver Clara Farr, 52, they smelled alcohol, an arrest report states. They also noticed the woman’s 15-year-old son was riding with her.
“I had a beer earlier,” Farr told deputies before stepping out to speak with them.
“Well, I had two a while ago and then I was drinking my third when you pulled me over,” she told officers, according to the arrest report.
Farr told deputies she handed the can of beer to her son and had him put it in his backpack.
Her blood-alcohol content was measured at 0.078.
Farr was arrested and charged with second-degree driving while intoxicated, speeding and endangeringthe welfare of a minor.
Farr was not in the Pulaski County jail Thursday night. Information on her release was not immediately available.
Short shorts, yells get man arrested
A Little Rock man was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after an officer noticed he was wearing a pair of “very short” shorts, police reports said.
According to reports, officers bumped into Carl Lincoln, 49, at 1401 S. Main St. around noon Wednesday and noticed the shorts.
Reports said Lincoln’s shorts were so short that they were “showing [the] private part of his body.”
When the officer asked Lincoln to put on some pants that he had in his backpack, he became “upset” and started cursing the officer loudly, reports state. Lincoln then was arrested and charged.
He was being held Thursday night in the Pulaski County jail in lieu of $200 bond.
Arkansas, Pages 14 on 09/21/2012