Slamming of kitten a threat, wife says
Jacksonville police on Tuesday arrested a man accused of throwing a kitten against a kitchen counter and threatening to do the same to his wife.
Michael Markham, 28, was charged with terroristic threatening and aggravated cruelty to an animal. He was taken to the Pulaski County jail, where he was awaiting a bail hearing.
About 2:45 a.m., Jacksonville officers were told to look for a gray Buick about 2:45 a.m. after a woman wrote “Help” on a receipt at a North Little Rock gas station, according to an arrest report. A Jacksonville officer spotted the car on Arkansas 161, and saw it pull into a driveway in the 7000 block of Arkansas 161 then leave again, police said.
The officer stopped the vehicle in the 5000 block of Arkansas 161 and talked to Kimberly Markham, who said her husband got home earlier that day and wanted to eat, police said. After she made soup, her kittens began climbing onto the bed, and Markham began throwing the kittens off the bed, she told police.
Markham threw one kitten into a kitchen counter, but it ran off, police said. He threw another into the counter, and the kitten “began twitching and then stopped moving,” police said.
He then threw that kitten over the fence and threatened to do the same to his wife, police said.
Kimberly Markham began thinking of ways to get out of the house and later told her husband she needed cigarettes, police said. After first refusing to let her go, Markham later drove her to a gas station in North Little Rock, where she went inside and wrote on the receipt, police said.
Officers found the kitten near the fence and it “appeared to have a broken leg” and had labored breathing, police said.
County man held in rape of girl, 12
A Pulaski County man accused of raping a 12-year-old girl was arrested Tuesday, according to the Pulaski County sheriff’s office.
Tiandre Cardenas-Halliburton, 20, was charged with three counts of rape and sexual indecency with a child. He was taken to the Pulaski County jail, where he was being held in lieu of $77,500 bond.
Sheriff ’s deputies were called to the 5900 block of McCain Place about 10:50 p.m. Sept. 24 and found the 12-year old girl holding a kitchen knife, according to a deputy’s report. The girl dropped the knife when ordered and told deputies “she was scared,” the report states.
The girl told deputies she was walking to a vending machine when a man who lives in the same apartment complex “forced her into a vehicle and sexually assaulted her,” the report states. When she jumped out of the vehicle, the man dragged her into his apartment, where he began suffocating her and touching her, deputies said.
The man then raped her, deputies said.
The girl’s grandmother, who learned from other children that the 12-year-old was at Cardenas-Halliburton’s apartment, went there and found the girl in a closet, deputies said. The grandmother told the man her granddaughter was underage and that she would call authorities, deputies said.
An ambulance took the girl to Arkansas Children’s Hospital in Little Rock.
Cardenas-Halliburton later admitted having sex with the girl on two occasions and to having the girl give him oral sex, according to an arrest report. He said he knew the girl was 12 and “solicited ” sex with her through text messages, deputies said.
LR druggist fires; robber flees store
A pharmacy owner fired a round into the store ceiling and thwarted a robber’s attempt to steal Oxycontin on Monday, Little Rock police said.
Little Rock officers were dispatched to Medic Pharmacy at 6221 Colonel Glenn Road about 5 p.m. on an aggravated-robbery call. The store owner, Steven Smith, told officers a man entered, placed a note on the counter, pulled out a revolver and said, “Gimme all your oxy,” police said.
Smith went to the back, told the man he had a gun and fired a round into the ceiling, scaring the man off, police said. He was last seen running north toward Colonel Glenn then west, police said.
The robber is described as black, 30-40 years old, 6 feet tall and 180 pounds.
Prisoner charged after jailer kicked
A Pulaski County jail inmate is facing more charges on accusations that he kicked a deputy in the face, according to reports.
Pulaski County deputies Zachary Treat and Felecia Robinson went to Johnny Smith’s isolation cell about 7:25 a.m. Tuesday and told him to head to the shower, reports said. Smith put on a shirt at the deputies’ orders and went to the door to be handcuffed, reports said.
Smith, 35, was handcuffed, but when Treat bent down to put on the leg shackles, Smith “mule kicked” the deputy in the face, reports state. Treat took the inmate to the ground, and Smith continued kicking, deputies said.
Treat then struck Smith with the leg shackles, and Robinson pepper-sprayed the inmate in the face, deputies said. Smith was pepper-sprayed again after he kept fighting, deputies said.
More deputies, including jail sergeants, helped control Smith, who was later returned to his isolation cell.
Arkansas, Pages 13 on 10/23/2013