Caretaker slashed,bitten; client held
A Little Rock caretaker was stabbed and bitten by a client Sunday afternoon, according to police reports.
Trakia Thomas, 34, was covered in blood when she met officers at her client's 5400 Chenonceau Blvd. apartment about 2:15 p.m. and told them that her client, who suffers from mental illness, attacked her with a steak knife.
Thomas told officers that she went back to the apartment with Joy Agbomi, 31, after the pair went to church and that Agbomi began arguing and accusing her caretaker of treating her like a child.
According to Thomas, Agbomi pulled a steak knife out of her purse and the two fought for several minutes before Agbomi slashed her on the chest, her hand, and then bit her right knee.
Agbomi said Thomas was the aggressor and hit her in the face and declined to comment further.
Agbomi was arrested and charged with felony domestic battery. She remained at the Pulaski County jail Monday afternoon where she was being held in lieu of $3,000 bond.
Thomas was taken to Baptist Hospital in Little Rock for stitches as well as a tetanus shot for the bite wound, reports said.
Drugs seen growingin suspect's bucket
A Pulaski County man and domestic battery suspect faces several drug charges after investigators found a marijuana plant at his trailer Saturday night.
Sheriff's office deputies went to David Byrd's Ada Lane trailer about 9:30 p.m. Saturday after being told that a witness had seen Byrd beating a pregnant woman in a different trailer earlier that night.
Deputies heard Byrd inside his trailer and knocked on the door, but he did not respond nor open the door, reports said.
While waiting for a landlord with a key, deputies found a marijuana plant growing in a bucket on the north side of his residence.
Once inside, deputies said they found Byrd hiding under his bed, and he was dragged out and taken into custody.
Deputies then found several drug pipes, syringes, pills and other drug paraphernalia.
Byrd was charged with five drug counts including felony possession of drug paraphernalia. The parolee was also charged with obstruction of government operations and resisting arrest.
He remained in the Pulaski County jail early Monday night. No bail for his release had been set.
1 arrested after 4threatened with gun
A Little Rock man pointed a gun at three residents and a police officer Sunday, according to an arrest report.
Deon Fitzgerald, 31, was arrested at 7 p.m. Sunday on four charges of aggravated assault -- a Class D felony. Fitzgerald purportedly pointed a handgun at an officer and three others during a disturbance at 6320 Butler Road in southwest Little Rock.
Fitzgerald was booked into Pulaski County jail, and he remained on the jail's roster late Monday. His bail was set at $20,000.
Woman: Shot firedover cellphone use
Police released more information Monday about an incident that led police to believe an armed man barricaded himself in an abandoned house after a domestic disturbance Sunday night.
Police identified the man Monday as 20-year-old Jasper Dean Goodwin Jr. of Little Rock.
According to the report, 32-year-old Latasha Hunt told police that Goodwin went to her mother's house, 720 Valentine St., about 7:30 p.m. Sunday and asked to use Hunt's cellphone. When Hunt refused, Goodwin yelled at her, slammed her into a tree and threatened to kill her, police said. Hunt ran away, and Goodwin purportedly fired one shot at her.
Hunt told police she then saw Goodwin run into a vacant home two houses away from her mother's.
A Little Rock Police Department SWAT team responded to the scene and tried to contact the man by bullhorn. After receiving no response, the SWAT team searched the house about 10:45 p.m., but Goodwin was not there.
As of Monday night, investigators had not located Goodwin, who is facing charges of aggravated assault, second-degree terroristic threatening and third-degree domestic battering, according to an incident report.
Police described him as a 5-foot-11, 150-pound black man with a scar in the middle of his head.
Metro on 08/12/2014