Crash shakes girl; driver dad faulted
North Little Rock police officers arrested a Texas man after an early Christmas traffic accident that left his 12-year-old daughter with minor injuries.
Eugene Boyland, 37, of Arlington, Texas, was arrested about 4 a.m. Wednesday and charged with careless driving, driving while intoxicated, refusing to take a DWI test, endangering the welfare of a minor and not having proof of insurance.
According to a police report, police were called to Charles H. Boyer Drive in North Little Rock after a report of a single-car accident. The officer who responded found Boyland’s Chevrolet Impala in a ditch, with Boyland behind the wheel and his 12-year-old daughter in the passenger seat, according to the report.
The officer wrote that Boyland “admitted spontaneously” that he had been speeding and that he had hit a wooden sign. The officer also wrote that Boyland said he had drank several beers earlier in the evening, according to the report.
Boyland’s daughter was treated for minor injuries including a seat-belt burn and neck pain, according to the police report.
Child left in car; mom is arrested
A North Little Rock mother was arrested late Christmas Eve after police found her 4-year-old child lying in the back seat of her car in what they said were below-freezing temperatures.
Latoya Proctor, 27, was arrested about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday and charged with endangering the welfare of a minor, according to a North Little Rock Police report.
Police were called to the Fourth Street apartment complex after a man saw the child in the back seat of Proctor’s car unattended, according to the police report. The witness said he was going to meet his girlfriend in the parking lot when he noticed the child in the car two spots away.
He told police he saw an unknown man exit the back passenger’s side seat of the car and yelled to ask if he knew the child was in the car. The witness said the man ran with a bag in his hand, and the witness called the police.
Another witness took the child - who was crying, according to witnesses - out of the back seat of the cold car and put the child in her own car, where the heat was on, according to the report. Officers later wrote in the police report that the temperature in the car was about 30 degrees and “ice cold” when they arrived.
The officers contacted Proctor, who was inside her apartment. According to the report, she told police she had only left the child unattended for a few minutes. She also told police that her car console had been rooted through and her purse was missing, according to the report.
Officers arrested Proctor and took her to the Pulaski County jail.
Run-over fence leads to arrest
A North Little Rock man was arrested by Pulaski County sheriff’s officers at 8a.m. Christmas morning after officers found him standing outside of a truck that had been driven through a fence.
Franky Davenport, 31, was charged with public intoxication and unauthorized use of a vehicle and taken to the Pulaski County Detention Center.
According to a police report, officers received a call from a family member who said Davenport had taken her truck without permission. Officers received a separate call reporting that a man had driven a pickup through a fence near the intersection of Jamison Avenue and 46th Street off Jacksonville Highway.
An arriving officer found Davenport outside a Chevrolet pickup that had driven through a fence, according to the officer’s report. The officer wrote that Davenport smelled “strongly of intoxicants” and apologized for taking the truck.
According to the report, Davenport told the officer he had been drinking all night before the crash.
Pursuing, hit car’s driver sees arrest
After hitting another car late Tuesday night in Little Rock, a DWI suspect was followed by the motorist he struck and ultimately arrested.
According to arrest reports, Torrence Deadmon, 24, of 7 Southmont Drive was in an accident at the intersection of Main and Roosevelt streets at about 10 p.m.
Instead of stopping, Deadmon drove off and the victim pursued him all the way to East 20th and Commerce streets where police met them and placed Deadmon under arrest, the reports said.
While being taken to the jail, Deadmon threatened to “hurt and sue officers,” the reports said.
Drugs-being-done call yields arrest
When asked by officers why a voice on the phone told police he was doing drugs, a drug suspect told them that the caller was right.
North Little Rock officers went to 4217 E. McCain Blvd. on Tuesday afternoon after getting a call about a man smoking drugs in his car near Jason’s Deli.
Officers found the car and the man, later identified as an employee of the restaurant, and “asked … why someone would call stating he was smoking drugs.”
According to police, the employee answered, “Because I was,” and then handed over a pipe used for smoking methamphetamine.
Jeremy Moore, 25, of Little Rock was arrested and charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and booked in at the Pulaski County jail.
Girlfriend is held in hammer threat
A North Little Rock woman was arrested early Wednesday afternoon after witnesses said she threatened to kill her boyfriend with a hammer.
According to police reports, Angela Jones, 49, was with her live-in boyfriend at their 1308 Frank St. home when she threatened him, then raised a hammer in the air.
Police found Jones walking away from the house and said she still had the hammer in her hand.
Jones was charged with felony aggravated assault on a household or family member and booked in at the Pulaski County jail.
She remained at the jail Wednesday night. No bail had been set.
Arkansas, Pages 12 on 12/26/2013