Jacob Quinn Sanders
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Officer loses his appeal of firing
posted: 10/15/2010 6:03 a.m. Discuss
A Little Rock police officer who said he was too sick to respond to a January bar fight across the street from his River Market kiosk lost an appeal Thursday when the city’s Civil Service Commission voted unanimously to uphold Chief Stuart Thomas’ decision to fire him.
Jailer in search case suspended
posted: 10/15/2010 5:25 a.m. Discuss
The Pulaski County sheriff’s office Thursday suspended a jail deputy for five workdays, accusing her of failing to search a prisoner later found with a loaded.22-caliber pistol and drugs.
LR airport delays contract award
posted: 10/14/2010 3:14 a.m. Comment 1
Citing the public displeasure of a Little Rock city director at information she insisted was withheld from her, a Little Rock Municipal Airport Commission committee voted Wednesday to postpone deciding whether to award a California company a contract to help manage a $53 million terminal expansion project.
Deputy in prisoner’s contraband case quits
posted: 10/13/2010 5:50 a.m. Discuss
A Pulaski County jail deputy scheduled for a disciplinary hearing related to a loaded.22-caliber handgun and drugs smuggled into the facility last month resigned Monday before administrators decided on his punishment.
Driver shot by officer out of hospital, in jail
posted: 10/08/2010 4:27 a.m. Discuss
A man shot by North Little Rock police on a high school campus last week was released from a hospital Wednesday and sent to the Pulaski County jail.
Charge filed in cyclist’s death
posted: 10/06/2010 4:56 a.m. Discuss
Little Rock police charged a woman with negligent homicide Tuesday in the June death of a bicyclist crossing Cantrell Road with a green light.
NLR names officers involved in fatal gunfire
posted: 10/06/2010 4:54 a.m. Discuss
North Little Rock police Tuesday identified the two officers involved in the Friday night shooting death of a man who fired a rifle at them. Officers Mark Wright, a 10-year veteran of the department, and Mike Miller, a veteran of 14 years, stood in an alley behind 716 Water St. in the city’s Rose City neighborhood about 9:30 p.m. checking on a 911 call about a break-in.
Chief ‘comfortable’ with shooting
posted: 10/02/2010 5:40 a.m.
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North Little Rock Police Chief Danny Bradley on Friday defended an officer who shot a man the day before on a high school campus as another officer clung to the hood of the man’s car, saying he was “comfortable” that the shooting officer’s actions were justified.
17 kids in a pickup; YMCA fires driver
posted: 09/30/2010 4:35 a.m. Comments 8
A North Little Rock YMCA employee on Tuesday drove 17 elementary school students a mile down one of the city’s busiest streets in a pickup — some sitting and standing in the truck’s open bed — sparking an Arkansas Department of Human Services investigation.
Sheriff race a rematch of 2008 contest
posted: 09/27/2010 5:43 a.m. Comments 2
The vote totals in the race for Pulaski County sheriff were not close two years ago.
