Grocery shopper has purse snatched
Little Rock police were investigating after a woman was robbed outside a downtown grocery store Monday.
Officers responded at 10:44 a.m. to Edwards Food Giant at 1701 Main St. Gina Nelson, 60, said a man had offered to sell her food stamps and followed her to her car, according to a police report. The man grabbed Nelson's purse and, after a brief struggle, ran to a brown Dodge pickup nearby.
The pickup was last seen traveling south on Main Street.
Nelson suffered an injured finger in the robbery, according to the report. She drove to herself to a hospital for treatment.
Officers searched the area of the grocery store but made no arrests. Investigators reported viewing surveillance footage of the holdup.
The robber is described only as black.
Car breaks down, man robbed, beaten
Police were seeking three men who beat and robbed a man after his car broke down Sunday in Little Rock.
Juan Carlos, 29, said he was walking near Geyer Springs Road and Interstate 30 when a light green Ford minivan pulled up, according to a police report. Three men got out of the van and struck Carlos in the head with pistols. According to the report, one of them slashed Carlos with a knife.
The men took $25 and fled.
Police said Carlos declined medical treatment at the scene.
Carlos identified one of his attackers as a Little Rock man, and showed the man's Facebook page to investigators, the report states.
The robbers were each described as Hispanic and between the ages of 18 and 25. No arrests had been made Tuesday.
NLR man stabbed by naked roommate
A naked man stabbed his roommate multiple times Tuesday in their home in North Little Rock, the Pulaski County sheriff's office reported.
Shortly before noon, deputies were called to 6803 Norman Road on a report of a stabbing. Samuel Wren, 34, told deputies that he had been looking for his keys when he saw his roommate, Ben Brown Jr., 34, standing outside the house naked. Wren asked where his keys were and then told Brown to put clothes on. Brown, still naked, followed Wren into Wren's room. Wren again asked Brown to put clothes on and then had to force the door shut and put something behind it to keep Brown out, the report said.
After pounding on the door, Brown got into the room and stabbed Wren several times with a knife, according to the report. Wren and another person were able to wrest the knife away and sat on Brown until deputies arrived.
Wren was transported to UAMS Medical Center in Little Rock with multiple stab wounds in his abdomen and back, as well as cuts on his left knee and face, the report said.
Brown was arrested and transported to the Pulaski County jail on charges of first-degree battery, resisting arrest and two counts of aggravated assault. He was not listed on the jail's roster Tuesday night.
Hospital outburst leads to LR arrest
A man walked into a Little Rock hospital Tuesday afternoon and started screaming obscenities, according to an arrest report from the Pulaski County sheriff's office.
Marvin White, 56, entered John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital, 4300 W. Seventh St., around 4:45 p.m., started screaming obscenities and refused to stop or lower his voice when asked, the arrest report said. He was offered a chance to see a doctor, but said he was leaving and then refused to leave.
The report said when White, who smelled of intoxicants, was told he was being arrested he "violently resisted" and injured one of the deputies.
White was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct, criminal trespass, third-degree assault, public intoxication and resisting arrest. He was booked into the Pulaski County jail but was not listed on the jail's roster Tuesday night.
Metro on 08/05/2015