Car crash leads to woman being shot
Two Little Rock men were arrested after shooting a woman four times Wednesday after fleeing a car crash, police documents said.
Juan Carlos Perez, 32, and Ernesto Olivera, 25, were in the Pulaski County jail Friday facing a charge of first-degree battery each after a shooting on Wednesday, according to the jail's roster and a police report.
Perez was driving down Baseline Road on Wednesday evening with Olivera in the passenger seat when their vehicle collided with another one, a police report said. Perez drove away from the crash, but the two women in the other vehicle followed them, the report said.
When the two women tried to block them near Jana Drive, Perez told Olivera to shoot them, an arrest report said.
Olivera fired a 9mm handgun four to five times, striking one of the women at least four times, the arrest report said. Then Perez drove away again.
Officers responded to the shooting and said though one of the women had suffered multiple gunshot wounds, she was awake and responsive and had placed a tourniquet on her arm to help stop the bleeding, the police report said.
One of the victims remembered the car's license plate, and officers arrested the two men near 8621 Baseline Road at Royal Oaks Apartments, the police report said.
Neither men had a bond Friday evening, according to the jail's roster.
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Sex offender in jail on assault charges
A 57-year-old level-2 sex offender was arrested Thursday after Jacksonville police said he engaged in "sexual intercourse and sexual deviant activity" with a 15-year-old girl multiple times in September, an arrest report said.
Keith Angus Lewis, of Jacksonville, was arrested on five charges of fourth-degree sexual assault after he told a 15-year-old girl not to tell anyone about them having sex multiple times between Sept. 1 and Sept. 25, the report said.
Arkansas' legal age of consent is 16. Arkansas law says statutory rape is a mandatory charge when the victim is 13 or younger. When the victim is 14 or 15 and the offender is more than 20 years old, an offender may be charged with fourth-degree sexual assault, which carries a penalty of up to six years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000.
Lewis was in the Pulaski County jail in lieu of a $150,000 bond Friday, according to the jail's roster.
Woman barricades herself, is arrested
A Little Rock woman barricaded herself in her neighbor's home and wouldn't leave until deputies arrived, an arrest report said.
Pulaski County deputies arrested Tanglea Monique Johnson, 42, on charges of burglary, domestic battery third degree, obstructing governmental operations, disorderly conduct and third-degree battery Friday after responding to 12604 Ironton Cutoff, where Johnson had barricaded herself inside a house and assaulted her neighbors, the report said.
The report did not say how Johnson injured her neighbor or why she barricaded herself there.
Johnson was in the Pulaski County jail without bond Friday evening.
Metro on 10/12/2019