Suspect is named in LR carjackings
Little Rock police identified a 19-year-old suspect in a pair of carjackings from over the summer.
Markist Hampton of Mabelvale, also known as “Brim Boy Juvie,” is wanted on two aggravated robbery warrants, two felony theft of property warrants, as well as for three misdemeanor crimes, according to a news release from Little Rock police officials Thursday morning.
According to police reports, Hampton was one of two men who pulled up alongside Lisa Clay and her husband in the 2600 block of South Oak Street on July 18, flashed a gun, stole Clay’s phone and $175 and took off in her 2003 Saturn.
Hampton was also identified as one of three men who pulled a man and a woman out of their car around 2 a.m. on Aug. 12 in a parking lot at 3901 S. University Ave.
According to witnesses, Hampton pistol-whipped the man and then took his phone and his Ford Crown Victoria.
Hampton is described as a 6-foot-tall black man weighing 180 pounds and, according to police, is aware that police are looking for him and is expected to be armed.
In lottery-ticket theft, arrest made
A former United Parcel Service employee was arrested outside Little Rock Air Force Base on Christmas Eve, more than four months after he was identified as a suspect in the theft of lottery tickets.
On Aug. 13, security specialists with the Arkansas Lottery Commission called the Pulaski County sheriff’s office about a “possible fraud” after an investigation of a theft of lottery tickets from just a few weeks prior.
According to sheriff’s office investigators, a UPS driver, Preston Covington, was suspected of stealing tickets from a UPS package.
Lottery officials traced the tickets to an Exxon convenience store at 205 E. Dixon Road, where they had been scanned electronically and redeemed.
Covington, 20, was charged with lottery fraud, a Class D felony punishable by up to six years in prison, as well as misdemeanor theft of property.
Drunkenness cited in jail-visit arrest
A Little Rock woman purportedly showed up drunk at Pulaski County jail to visit an inmate Thursday and was arrested, according to an arrest report.
Dawnyell Harris, 32, was in the visitation area of the facility about 11 a.m. when she became “loud and disorderly and would not leave,” according to the report. Deputies reported that Harris smelled like alcohol.
She was charged with public intoxication and disorderly conduct. Harris had been released from the jail late Thursday.
Arkansas, Pages 10 on 12/27/2013