A woman who worked for the Arkansas Revenue Department when one of its managers was robbed of a cash deposit in December has been charged in the crime along with three others, authorities said.
The Bryant Police Department said in a news release that Marqueena Simmons, 31, is suspected of helping two Little Rock men plan to rob the branch manager as she left the office with the deposit bag Dec. 23.
Those two men were also arrested after the investigation, police said. The release identified them as Quinlan Broadway, 36, and Terry Raglin, 49.
All three were charged with aggravated robbery, and Raglin was additionally charged with fleeing and tampering with evidence. A fourth person, Angela Hicks, 30, was charged with hindering arrest or prosecution, the release said.
According to police, the branch manager told investigators she had just stepped into her car when a man in a Ford Explorer rammed into her vehicle, opened the door, grabbed the bag and drove away.
Bryant police pursued the vehicle in December and later chased a suspect when he ran across Interstate 30, but he got away then, according to the release.
The victim did not report any injuries, a Bryant police spokesman said.
Police said they do not know how much money was in the bag.
Simmons was a service representative at the office and was fired after her arrest, according to Jake Bleed, a spokesman with the Department of Finance Administration, which oversees the Revenue Department.
Bleed said the department has made changes to security procedures in response to the robbery, but declined to give details, citing employee safety.