A Pulaski County circuit judge Monday set bail at $250,000 for a 18-year-old North Little Rock man after hearing testimony that the teen had jumped from a moving car to elude police.
Anthony Ray White III has been jailed without bail on charges of theft by receiving, fleeing and possession of drug paraphernalia since his Feb. 2 arrest at Cornish and East Fourth streets in North Little Rock.
At the time, he was already awaiting trial on armed-robbery charges in a 2015 case.
Special Circuit Judge John Langston set the bail amount at the recommendation of deputy prosecutor Jayme Butts-Hall after a hearing in which police officer Mike Miller described trying to pull over a green Lincoln for having a cracked windshield.
Miller said the Lincoln accelerated as he turned his patrol car to stop it, and the driver jumped from the car as the officer pursued it. The Lincoln hit a light pole, he told the judge. Miller said he saw the running driver make a throwing motion. He testified that he found a pistol that had been reported stolen in Maumelle.
White was arrested after a brief foot pursuit, and he denied knowing anything about the gun, the officer said.
White’s grandmother, Deborah English, asked the judge for more affordable bail, saying that White, his mother and sister live with her on North Beech Street, and the whole family will make sure he returns to court on time and obeys court orders.
Deputy prosecutor John Hout told the judge that White is awaiting trial on charges of aggravated robbery and theft, accused in the January 2015 armed robbery of a woman on Gardenia Avenue in front of her 10-year-old son.
A second man, Cordale Kent McDaniel, 28, also is charged in the robbery, accused of being the getaway driver, according to reports. White is to stand trial in July.
White was jailed for a week last fall after the woman complained that White had been regularly driving past her home, the prosecutor said.
On Oct. 9, two days after he was released from jail, he was arrested on misdemeanor marijuana and drug paraphernalia charges, Hout told the judge.