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Cabot man arrested in 5-year-old's rape

A 48-year-old central Arkansas man is accused of raping a 5-year-old girl, police said.

William Ray Fausett of Cabot was arrested about 7 p.m. Tuesday at an office of the North Little Rock Police Department at 615 W. 29th St., according to an arrest report.

Fausett said he raped and sexually assaulted the girl several times over the past year, police wrote in the arrest report. Fausett also told officers he showed the 5-year-old pornographic material prior to the abuse, police said.

He was arrested on charges of rape, second-degree sexual assault and sexually grooming a child.

Fausett is being held in the Pulaski County jail without bail.

Man robbed of cash at a LR bank ATM

A man told police he was robbed at gunpoint of $300 after he got cash out of an ATM at a Little Rock bank.

The robbery happened about 8 p.m. Thursday at the Bank of America branch location at 8200 Geyer Springs Road, according to a report from the Little Rock Police Department.

It was reported late Tuesday. The 40-year-old victim told police he waited to tell authorities because of a language barrier.

The robber opened the door to the man's car, brandished a handgun and demanded $300 in cash that had just been withdrawn from the ATM, the report states.

Police said the robber then fled on foot across a neighboring Kentucky Fried Chicken parking lot.

The victim described the robber as a black man between the ages of 18 and 20 who wore a gray hoodie at the time. Authorities said he stands about 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs around 145 pounds.

No suspects were named, and no arrests had been made at the time of the report.

Gunmen rob eatery of cash, police say

Two armed robbers forced three employees at a Little Rock McDonald's to give up a bag of cash and a roll of coins Tuesday night, police said.

Officers were called at 11:03 p.m. to the McDonald's at 4111 S. University Ave., according to a police report. Three employees said they were closing up the business when two masked people ran through the door.

They wielded guns and pushed the three women down a hallway to the manager's office, the report said. There, one of the robbers ordered an employee to open a safe and hand him a bank bag containing an undisclosed amount of money.

The woman obeyed and then closed the safe's door, she told police, and the robber demanded she reopen the safe and hand over a roll of coins. After taking the money, the robbers fled, police said.

No suspects were listed on the report.

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