Jacob Quinn Sanders
Stories by Jacob
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.
Day’s yield: 80 pounds of ‘pot’
posted: 09/23/2010 3:42 a.m. Discuss
An arson fire, a traffic stop and a search warrant led authorities separately to more than 80 pounds of marijuana around Pulaski County in a span of less than seven hours on Tuesday.
4 vehicles stolen from 1 property
posted: 09/18/2010 6:05 a.m. Comments 2
Getting fired wasn’t the worst part of Eric Ayers’ Thursday.
Report: Prisoner had gun
posted: 09/18/2010 4:52 a.m. Comments 2
A prisoner smuggled a loaded.22-caliber pistol and drugs into the Pulaski County jail in his underpants — despite at least three searches by Little Rock police and jailers — and kept it hidden for a day before two inmates turned him in, according to documents released Friday.
LR police: ‘Wanted’ flier source unknown
posted: 09/16/2010 4:04 a.m. Discuss
Little Rock police have not yet been able to find the source of a grainy flier that surfaced Wednesday showing two men wanted on first-degree murder charges below the words “WANTED — Dead or Alive.”
LR police say driver hit car, fought arrest
posted: 09/15/2010 5:23 a.m. Comments 4
Little Rock officers had to break a driver’s-side car window and drag a woman out hissing and trying to bite after she twice rammed her vehicle into an occupied patrol car in a shopping center parking lot just after 4 a.m. Tuesday, police said.
Police: Fistfight was over woman
posted: 09/14/2010 5:25 a.m. Comments 11
The fight at a Little Rock nightclub early Sunday that killed an Oklahoma police officer in town for National Guard training began when a Sheridan man saw a woman he knew dancing with the officer, police said Monday.
Angry drivers, gunfire, crash
posted: 09/09/2010 4:10 a.m.
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A case of road rage during the lunch hour Wednesday left a west Little Rock home smashed by a shot-up Hummer and a 21-year-old man in jail, police said.
Thief hits liquor store windows with truck
posted: 09/09/2010 3:56 a.m. Discuss
A man wearing all black backed a Chevrolet pickup hard into the front of a west Little Rock liquor store early Wednesday, crashing through the building’s glass front windows, and stole bottles of alcohol before driving off, police said.
2-mile high-speed chase ends with flipped car, man’s arrest
posted: 09/08/2010 5:23 a.m. Discuss
A Pulaski County sheriff’s deputy chased a driver who refused to stop for about two miles Sunday afternoon until the driver’s Mazda overturned in a ditch and the deputy ran him down on foot near a strip club.
Police beat
posted: 09/08/2010 5:09 a.m. Discuss
Victim identified in Jacksonville. A fingerprint match Tuesday identified the man killed Friday in Jacksonville’s first homicide of 2010 as David Harris, a 23-year-old resident of the city.
Escaped kidnapper surrenders in LR
posted: 09/02/2010 4:18 a.m. Discuss
A kidnapper who escaped from the Pulaski County Courthouse late Tuesday morning surrendered to Little Rock police Wednesday afternoon after a friend persuaded him to stop running.
4 accused in shootings that left 3 dead in ’09
posted: 09/01/2010 5:29 a.m. Comment 1
Arkansas State Police investigators first questioned Terry Dean Birts about shooting two people in the back of the head with an unusual gun less than three weeks after finding two bodies in a black Ford Expedition parked along Interstate 40 in May 2009.
Kidnapper flees LR courthouse
posted: 09/01/2010 5 a.m. Comment 1
A Pulaski County jail inmate escaped from courthouse security officers Tuesday in Little Rock, shedding his handcuffs behind City Hall.
Tip leads police to escaped inmate
posted: 08/31/2010 5:37 a.m. Discuss
After searching for five days for a state prison inmate who escaped from a Hot Spring County jail, law-enforcement authorities from five agencies took just 45 minutes to return him to custody Monday morning south of Little Rock after receiving a tip.
Traffic stop in Jacksonville leads to drugs, guns, arrest
posted: 08/29/2010 4:41 a.m. Discuss
Marijuana found during a traffic stop Wednesday led Jacksonville police to a Pulaski County house where they found 2 more pounds, as well as guns and digital scales, according to an arrest report.
Details scarce as troopers analyze fatal I-430 crash
posted: 08/27/2010 5:09 a.m.
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Arkansas State Police continued Thursday to investigate the cause of the Interstate 430 crash that killed a 21-year-old Alexander woman and injured three others Wednesday morning in west Little Rock.
2nd man held in killing at hotel; 2 more sought
posted: 08/27/2010 5:06 a.m. Discuss
One of the remaining three suspects in an Aug. 18 killing surrendered to Little Rock police Thursday afternoon in the company of his attorney.
Fiery I-430 crash kills 1, hurts 2
posted: 08/26/2010 6:11 a.m.
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One woman was killed and two other people — one her husband — were injured in a fiery morning rush-hour crash that closed the northbound lanes of Interstate 430 in west Little Rock for more than an hour Wednesday.
Police hunting for 3 in LR killing
posted: 08/26/2010 4:54 a.m. Discuss
Little Rock police searched Wednesday for three people wanted in an Aug. 18 killing in the parking lot of a southwest Little Rock hotel.
LR woman hangs herself in jail cell
posted: 08/26/2010 4:53 a.m. Discuss
A Little Rock woman in the Pulaski County jail on a contempt-of-court charge hanged herself with a bedsheet less than three hours after being booked in Tuesday afternoon, according to a sheriff’s office report.
Police: Man shot over cocaine
posted: 08/25/2010 5:44 a.m. Comment 1
The only photographs Larry Robinson Sr. has of his son and namesake anymore are the one on his funeral program and the ones of him in his open casket.
2nd look at ’95 slaying leads to parolee’s arrest
posted: 08/24/2010 5:15 a.m. Discuss
After cold-case detectives obtained new witness accounts, Little Rock police charged a man with first-degree murder Monday in a 1995 killing outside a gambling house near Central High School.
Two men killed in LR shootings
posted: 08/20/2010 5:41 a.m. Discuss
For only the second time since January 2009, Little Rock police officers are investigating separate killings that happened on the same day.
Jail puts prints in U.S. database
posted: 08/18/2010 3:43 a.m. Discuss
The jail in Arkansas’ most populous county Tuesday became the first in the state to begin routinely sharing fingerprints taken while booking prisoners with a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement database as part of a nationwide effort to determine an arrested person’s immigration status.
Police fire on car-theft suspect after NLR chase
posted: 08/17/2010 5:47 a.m. Discuss
Three Sherwood police officers and an Arkansas State Police trooper fired on a cartheft suspect they believed to be armed and who rammed their cars after leading a chase into North Little Rock early Monday morning.
LR firefighter is 1 of 2 on craft from river crash
posted: 08/13/2010 3:50 a.m. Discuss
One of the men who crashed in a powered parachute Wednesday night into the Arkansas River west of Interstate 430 was a Little Rock firefighter licensed to teach flying the aircraft.
Thief prefers menthol cigarettes
posted: 08/12/2010 4 a.m. Discuss
Sweating through her thin, gray T-shirt and shaking her head at yet another gaping hole in the tobacco shop she has managed for six years, Tamyra Hilligas said there has never been another time that she knew of that a store was burglarized three times in 19 days.
Jacksonville man cited for indecency
posted: 08/11/2010 4:32 a.m. Comments 21
The adult son of a Jacksonville district judge repeatedly told a Sherwood police officer he was unconcerned about being charged with indecent exposure while urinating in the parking lot of a bar because his father would “handle it,” according to a police report released Tuesday.
Tobacco shops hit, then re-burgled
posted: 08/10/2010 4:12 a.m. Comment 1
The burglaries have happened the same way — twice each — at tobacco stores 15 miles apart.
Police beat
posted: 08/07/2010 5:15 a.m. Discuss
2 LR men arrested on drug charges Police arrested Marchelio “Cello” Robinson, 29, on Thursday after finding about a half ounce of cocaine and digital scales inside his house at 7724 Rebecca Drive while “three small children” were also inside, the report said.
Call to 911: 2 killed at LR home
posted: 08/06/2010 5:29 a.m.
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The younger of two brothers who for decades owned and ran the Pine Bluff Commercial shot and killed his wife and then himself in the kitchen of their west Little Rock home Thursday morning
Project to cut crime largely going unused
posted: 07/26/2010 5 a.m. Discuss
The Pulaski County Crime Stoppers program is supposed to work with the five law-enforcement agencies on its board highlighting hard-to-solve cases weekly on television news and offering cash for information.
Report: Crime in NLR down
posted: 07/23/2010 4:26 a.m. Discuss
North Little Rock crime statistics released Thursday show noteworthy drops in both violent and property crime for the first six months of 2010 compared to the same period a year earlier, with violent crime at its lowest in at least five years.
LR robbery suspect surrenders at home
posted: 07/22/2010 5:07 a.m. Discuss
Police tracked a robbery suspect armed with a gun Wednesday from a Bank of America branch across from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock to his duplex apartment in southwest Little Rock before convincing him to come out peacefully.
LR suspect leaps to death
posted: 07/21/2010 5:34 a.m.
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A bank-robbery suspect led police on a chase through two cities Tuesday afternoon before jumping to his death in the Arkansas River — leaving a bag of money behind — from the Main Street Bridge between Little Rock and North Little Rock.
Gas tanker crash closes I-40
posted: 07/20/2010 5:20 a.m.
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A tanker truck loaded with gasoline crashed and tumbled off Interstate 40 near Burns Park on Monday afternoon, leaving no spill or flames on the roadway but leading the Arkansas State Police to close the freeway’s westbound lanes for hours.
Pursued pickup plunges off I-30, killing its driver
posted: 07/17/2010 5:01 a.m. Discuss
A stolen pickup plunged off an Interstate 30 bridge near Otter Creek in Little Rock early Friday with the Arkansas State Police in pursuit, killing the driver and snarling traffic for more than two hours.
2 remain on the run; car found at airport
posted: 07/15/2010 4:28 a.m. Discuss
Sherwood police on Wednesday found a blue Chevrolet Impala purportedly taken a day earlier from a woman who accused her daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend of beating her, wrapping her in a quilt and driving to Perry County before tossing her out of the car.
Mother: Bound, tossed over hill
posted: 07/14/2010 5:45 a.m. Comments 2
All Rita McGinness said she knows for sure is that it was her oldest daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend who smacked her in the head with a golf club, tied her ankles and wrists, and rolled her inside a quilt before packing her into the trunk of her own car and driving Monday night from Sherwood to Perry County to toss her over a roadside guardrail.
LR woman believed alive when set afire
posted: 07/13/2010 5:59 a.m. Comment 1
Jasmine Sheppard didn’t send her mother a text message when she got off work at 9 o’clock Saturday night to say she was on her way. That wasn’t like her.
