ID theft charged
over bank account
A North Little Rock man was arrested Monday, accused of opening a bank account in someone else's name, according to a North Little Rock police report.
Police responded to Regions Bank on 4545 Fairway Ave. where an employee told the officer that she grew suspicious that Donnie Southerland, 22, did not appear to be the person whose name was on the check after Southerland opened an account, the report said.
Officers arrested Southerland who was at the bank just after 4:30 p.m. and took him to the Pulaski County jail where he is held without bail and is charged with felony financial identity fraud.
Two men arrested
in LR on drug counts
Little Rock police arrested two people on drug charges after a Sunday evening call regarding for a disturbance involving a gun, according to a report.
Officers responded to Spanish Johns Apartments at 5001 W. 65th St. at 6:45 p.m. where two people were approached by officers, the reports said.
Jonathan Ledbetter, 26, was standing in the parking lot of Building C and fit the description of a suspect in an aggravated robbery, police said. A search found five firearms and several types of narcotics, according to the report.
Police also approached Jalen Bynum, 27, by the door of a Jeep Cherokee smelling of marijuana, and officers found a large amount of marijuana, MDMA, drug paraphernalia and several firearms, a report said.
Both were taken to the Pulaski County jail and are held without bail. They are charged with felony simultaneous possession of drugs and firearms, felony possession of a defaced firearm, felony possession of marijuana, felony possession of drug paraphernalia and felony theft by receiving.
Bynum is additionally charged with felony possession of MDMA, and Ledbetter is charged with felony possession of schedule II drugs.
Ledbetter is not currently charged with aggravated robbery.
Report says missing
tag leads to arrest
Police said that a Little Rock man was arrested Monday on drug charges after he was pulled over for not having a license plate on his car.
An officer stopped a vehicle driven by Russell Stacks, 46, about noon and found he had a suspended license and a failure-to-appear warrant, a report said.
According to the report, police found several bags of drugs, a scale, a pipe and syringes in the vehicle.
Stacks was taken to the Pulaski County jail and is charged with felony possession of methamphetamine, felony possession of drug paraphernalia, felony possession of heroin, misdemeanor failure to appear, misdemeanor driving without a licence and misdemeanor driving without a license plate.