Bottle flung, man faces battery count
A Little Rock man is facing a misdemeanor domestic battery charge following a Wednesday night fight when he claimed that he and his girlfriend were just playing around.
Jose Sanchez, 38, was arrested and charged with third-degree domestic battery. He was taken to the Pulaski County jail, where he was being held in lieu of a $2,500 bond.
About 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sanchez’s girlfriend was folding laundry at her apartment at 5511 Base Line Road when he asked her to rub his head, she told police. When she wouldn’t, Sanchez grew upset and began throwing items at her, including a bottle of rubbing alcohol that struck her head, police said.
Sanchez told officers he threw the bottle at his girlfriend “as a joke,” police said.
3 children taken into state custody
The Arkansas Department of Human Services took custody of three children whose mother left them alone in an apartment Wednesday.
About 9:35 p.m., a woman spotted a 5-year-old girl walking around Building 8 of the Berkley Apartments at 1601 N. Shackleford Road, Little Rock police said. The woman waited “awhile” to see if a parent would come back before calling authorities. She told police she saw two other children - a 3-year-old boy and a 1-year old boy - inside an unattended apartment, she told police.
The father of the 3-year-old came home from work about 11:40 p.m. and told officers the mother of all three children, Sharon Sims, was supposed to watch them, according to the police report. He called Sims, and she returned shortly, claiming she had gone to the store for about 30 minutes.
Sims, 20, was arrested and charged with three counts of second-degree endangering the welfare of a minor. She was taken to the Pulaski County jail, where she was being held in lieu of an $8,000 bond.
Car, wallet stolen by armed intruders
A man was awakened by intruders, beaten and forced to undress in a North Little Rock duplex Wednesday morning.
A little after 5 a.m., Quinton Phillips, 33, was asleep in his living room in the 200 block of Curtis Sykes Drive when he woke up to two men dressed in black and carrying pistols, according to the police report. The men beat him in the head with the pistols and told him to undress, Phillips told police. They then took his car keys, wallet, ID and Social Security card, and told him to lay down and count to 100. He later found that his car - a gray 1985 Buick Park Avenue with Arkansas license plate number 566 STR - had been stolen.
Steven Watson, 57, said he heard something outside the backdoor of the duplex, and when he went to check it out, the men came inside, hit him in the face with the pistols and knocked him down.
Four other people were in the apartment at the time - Watson witnessed the incident and the three others were asleep. North Little Rock police haven’t made any arrests. Teens robbed when visiting co-worker
Two men were robbed at gunpoint in the 3300 block of Center Street early Wednesday morning.
Daivion Walton, 19, and Kendrick Cortez, 18, went to visit a co-worker at her home at 2 a.m. When they were on her porch, two men - one with a shotgun and one with a 2x4 board - told them to get on the ground. They took Walton’s cell phone, driver’s license and credit and debit cards, according to a police report.
Cortez later discovered his iPad was missing from his car, the report said.
No arrests have been made.
29-year-old to face three rape charges
A North Little Rock man is facing three rape charges after police said he had sex with a 10-year-old girl “on numerous occasions,” according to a police report.
Anael Castro-Hernandez, 29, was arrested on a warrant Tuesday and charged with three counts of rape. He was taken to the Pulaski County jail, where he was being held without bond.
North Little Rock police were alerted of the rapes on May 9, when an elementary school counselor told them about the girl, the report states. The girl had said Castro-Hernandez beat her on the behind and the back, touched her inappropriately and raped her several times, the report states.
Arkansas, Pages 12 on 05/31/2013