Jacob Quinn Sanders

Man nabbed after jump

Break-in suspect fled out window, police say

Little Rock police confronted a man wanted on kidnapping and aggravated robbery warrants as he burglarized another man’s house Wednesday, capturing him after he pointed a gun at a sergeant and jumped out a second-floor window, police said.
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LR police shoot 2 in one day

Unrelated cases occurred 8 hours, 6 miles apart

During a drug raid just after 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, Little Rock police shot their second suspect of the day about eight hours after killing a mentally unstable man who was cutting himself and family members with a knife.
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Ex-GI charged in NLR slaying

He leads police to fiancee’s body

A former soldier shot and killed his fiancee — a first-year English teacher at North Little Rock High School’s East Campus — in her Skyline Drive apartment before dawn Tuesday, police said.
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NLR carjacking spurs chase, arrest

Police dog bites parolee under house

North Little Rock police chased a parolee suspected in a carjacking through neighborhoods Tuesday afternoon before trapping him under a house and siccing a police dog on him, police said.
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Suspect, slaying victim argued, NLR files show

A man charged with first degree murder in the Sunday shooting death of North Little Rock car dealer John Robert Baugh had argued several times with Baugh in recent months and was accused in September of breaking out a window on the car lot, records show.
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Conway jail sees return of LR thief

Was first to go in ’07 program

Melvin Tyrone Young has a thing for cars.
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Arrest proves lottery airtight, officials say

Monday’s arrest in Little Rock of a Camden woman accused of trying to cash a doctored lottery ticket simply reinforced for Arkansas Lottery Commission Executive Director Ernie Passailaigue what he called a simple truth: The tickets are smarter than criminals.
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Shots injure 3 leaving state fair

Three people suffered gunshot wounds in Little Rock late Sunday just after the closing of the Arkansas State Fair, police said.
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Had witness killed, convict says

Guilty plea in death tied to ’02 robbery earns four life terms

A reputed Little Rock gang leader already serving a 50-year sentence in an Arkansas prison for murder pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to ordering the killing of a witness against him in a robbery case seven years ago.
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NLR suspect in girl’s rape Texas-bound

He won’t fight extradition in ’90 attack on 8-year-old

The North Little Rock man accused of raping and slitting the throat of an 8-year-old girl in Texas in 1990 waived fighting extradition Wednesday morning to go back to the Lone Star state to face a Galveston County charge of attempted capital murder.
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