Little Rock police on Sunday arrested two people who were found with the car reported stolen from the scene of a Saturday homicide, a department spokesman said on Monday.
Few details about the arrests were available on Memorial Day, but police spokesman Richard Hilgeman said neither suspect was charged in connection with the homicide.
Officers arrested Rose Flowers, 49, and Sahaya Datru Pharoah, 43, both of North Little Rock, at about 3:30 p.m. Sunday at the corner of West 26th and South Gaines streets, according to Little Rock Police Department arrest logs. Little Rock Police Department spokesman Lt. Steve McClanahan said that's the intersection where officers found the missing green 2014 Fiat 500L on Sunday afternoon.
Detectives began searching for the car after it was reported missing from a home on the 3900 block of West 11th Street where police found a woman dead in an apparent homicide on Saturday night.
Police found the victim in the kitchen after neighbors called 911 to report a burglary in progress, according to a police report. McClanahan said the body was "badly decomposed."
The victim, who was described only as a woman in her 60s, has not been identified by the state Crime Laboratory. The car, however, was registered to Gwenda Moorman, 62, of Little Rock. Moorman's last address, according to voter registration records, was the home where police found the body Saturday.
Pharoah was charged with theft by receiving, and Flowers was charged with possession of cocaine and drug paraphernalia, according to the arrest logs.
Pharoah -- who also goes by Lamont, according to an arrest report -- was booked into the Pulaski County jail. The report said bail had been set at $5,000, and he has a court hearing at 9 a.m. today.
The jail's online inmate roster didn't list Pharoah as an inmate Monday night.
Police arrested Flowers during a stop with a "vehicle of interest" at 2609 S. Gaines St., according to an arrest report from the Pulaski County jail. Officers found 0.3 gram of suspected cocaine and a pipe in Flowers' bra during a search, the report stated.
On Monday afternoon, she had been released from Pulaski County jail on a $12,000 bond.
