Police beat

DWI is charge after 4-car crash

A 64-year-old man is facing a driving while intoxicated charge among other traffic offenses after authorities said he caused a four-vehicle collision on Interstate 30 Monday.

About 9:30 a.m., Arkansas State Police were called to the Interstate 30 bridge after Lawrence Mosier, who was driving a red Honda, side-swiped a Ford Expedition, department spokesman Bill Sadler said. That led to a “chain-reaction crash” involving two other vehicles, he said.

Mosier was charged with DWI, careless and prohibited driving and no proof of insurance and was taken to a Little Rock hospital, Sadler said. One other driver with minor injuries was taken to a hospital.

The collisions congested traffic until state police cleared the vehicles about 10:25 a.m., he said.

Boy shot with BB in sibling spat

A 13-year-old boy was shot in the chest with a BB gun after a dispute with his older sister Monday, Pulaski County sheriff’s deputies said.

About 7:45 p.m., the boy got into the argument with his 25-year-old sister on Eureka Gardens Road when their father stepped in and shot the boy once in the chest with a BB gun, deputies said. Authorities found the boy at his home in the 6800 block of East Bethany Road.

The boy, who suffered non-life-threatening injuries, was taken to Baptist Health Medical Center-North Little Rock.

Late Monday, authorities were searching for the boy’s father, who wasn’t at the home when deputies got there.

Hit by 3 students, school guards say

Three J.A. Fair High School students assaulted school security officials Friday during a school assembly, police said.

Little Rock police officers charged three 16-year-old boys with second-degree battery after they got into a fight with a truancy officer over a hat.

Truancy Officer Vincent Thompson, 45, approached one of the teenagers during the assembly and told him to remove his hat and then took it off the student when the student refused, according to a police report. The student responded with, “I’m going to beat your [expletive] [expletive]!” the report said.

When the student extended his arms, Thompson tried to restrain him but was attacked by another student who struck him several times in the upper body causing him to fall. He was kicked and hit while he was down by two students, the report said.

School Security Supervisor Tony Kelly tried to restrain one of them but was pushed and fell backward, striking his head on the bleachers. The first student told another school resource officer who restrained him that Thompson assaulted him and he was only defending himself, according to the report.

LR officers seek

purse-snatcher

Little Rock police are searching for the man who robbed a woman of her purse Sunday night.

Gynesis Allen, 23, told an officer that as she was walking back to her home on Olympia Court about 7:30 p.m. a man approached her and demanded she give him her purse. He put his arm around her neck and pointed something at her, but she didn’t see what it was and tried to run away, according to a police report.

The man was able to jerk her leopard-print purse from her and run off. The suspect is described as a dark-skinned, slender, 6-foot-tall black man, the report said. He was wearing an orange “O State” hooded sweatshirt and may have had two gold teeth. Officers searched the area that night unsuccessfully.

Robbers shot at,

flee restaurant

A Little Rock restaurant employee foiled two men’s attempts to rob the business when he fired at them Saturday, police said.

About 9:15 p.m., Little Rock officers were called the Sharks Fish and Chicken restaurant at 1423 W. Roosevelt Road. The employee, Munib Barakat, and two of his friends were eating behind the counter at the restaurant when two armed men entered the business and tried to jump the counter, police said.

Barakat then fired one shot at the men, causing them to flee south on Martin Luther King Drive, police said. No one was injured.

The first man is described as a 5-foot-8, 150-pound black man who wore an orange mask, gray hooded sweatshirt and dark pants. The second man is described as a 5-foot-10, 150-pound black man who wore a brown mask, gray hooded sweatshirt and dark pants. Both are described as 14- to 18-year-olds.

NLR man faces

kidnap charge

A North Little Rock man accused of kidnapping his child’s mother was arrested Friday, according to reports.

Edwin Slater, also known as “G Stacks,” 30, was arrested on warrants and charged with kidnapping and aggravated assault of a family or household member. He remained at the Pulaski County jail Monday in lieu of a $102,000 bond.

On Oct. 17, Little Rock officers were called to 11317 Yosemite Valley Drive. Stacy Campbell, 23, told authorities she went to an apartment, where she used to live with a female roommate and Slater, her child’s father, to gather some of her belongings, police said, adding that she moved out when he “began to be abusive toward her.”

When Campbell went into the apartment, Slater met her at the door, pointed a pistol at her and started cursing at her, police said. She immediately left, but Slater followed her out and got into the backseat of her car, police said.

He then struck her in the back of the head with a pistol and held it to her head, ordering her to drive, police said. Campbell began driving recklessly, causing Slater to grow annoyed and fire a shot into the air, police said. Once she slowed down, Slater got out and ran east.

Officers later found a 9mm shell casing in the front passenger seat of the car and a Ruger 9mm pistol and 11 bullets in the trash can in the Shorty Small’s restaurant women’s restroom, police said.