Dispatch Desk: Nov. 25 – Dec. 1

The following incidents were gathered from reports filed at the Arkadelphia Police Department and Clark County Sheriff’s Office. Names of arrested individuals were collected at the Clark County Detention Center on Crittenden Street in Arkadelphia. They are presumed innocent until found guilty in a court of law. The Arkadelphian does not withhold names from the arrest log, so don’t even think about asking.

Arkadelphia Police Department

Sunday, Nov. 24
9:46 p.m.
Officers were summoned to the Amtrak station for an Arkadelphia man’s report of a stolen Gorilla brand outdoor wagon. He directed officers to a chain locked around a post with a handle grip on the chain. The thief apparently removed the pin holding the handle grip, allowing the wagon to be taken without its handle grip. The wagon, valued at $150, was described as having three black wheels and one white wheel.

Monday, Nov. 25
11:55 a.m.
A Richie Street man went to the police station to report his passport was lost or stolen. He made the discovery while planning a trip to Mexico. He had contacted the Mexican Consulate and was advised to have a police report completed. He last saw his passport about two years ago when he was moving. He was informed that a report would be filed.

Wednesday, Nov. 27
8:12 a.m.
Police were called to a Riverside Drive residence for a welfare check on an 86-year-old female who had not contacted her son, the complainant, in two days. Officers made entry into the home and discovered the woman’s lifeless body on a patio out back. The coroner was called and pronounced the subject deceased.

1:42 p.m.
A woman phoned police to report a known male had just left her home and would not let her mother out of the vehicle. An officer located the car (she had conducted a traffic stop on the unlicensed vehicle about 12 minutes earlier, releasing the driver upon locating a temporary paper tag) and made a traffic stop in the Paul Shepherds Auto parking lot. The driver was identified as Johnny Lee Russey, 76. The complainant, who had been a passenger during the first traffic stop, was identified as a protected person in a no contact order against Russey. Russey was taken into custody on charges of violation of a no contact order and driving with a suspended license.

Thanksgiving Day
4:53 a.m.
Multiple 911 callers reported a juvenile had been run over outside an apartment complex at 2504 Country Club Road. Police responded to the area to find many of the involved parties had fled the area. An officer spoke to residents at the apartment from where the calls originated, observing a damaged door facing from where it had been forced open during the disturbance, and learned that the female suspect entered the residence armed with a knife. It was mentioned that she possibly ran over her own daughter while trying to flee the area. A search for the suspect proved unsuccessful until police were given a correct description of the vehicle, leading them to locate the suspect at Lark Place Apartments. She gave a similar account of the events, admitting to kicking in the door and explaining she was emotional because it would be the first Thanksgiving since her mother’s passing. Her juvenile daughter denied having been struck by a vehicle. The suspect was warned not to cause any further shenanigans lest she want to spend the holiday behind bars.

Black Friday

Felony incident still under investigation: Sexual Assault 2nd Degree, Nightingale Nursing Home

Juvenile report: Domestic disturbance

Saturday, Nov. 30
12:15 a.m.
Officers were called to Circle K, 3005 Pine St., for a report of alcohol theft. The suspect was seen in security footage stealing two 12-packs of adult beverages before fleeing. Described as a slender, white male, the suspect ran toward Cox Mobile Manor. An officer drove through the trailer park with negative contact.

Felony incident still under investigation: Theft of a Motor Vehicle, unknown address near Domino’s Pizza

11:33 a.m.
Officers were summoned to Walmart for a complaint of a shoplifter who left the store with $70 worth of merchandise. The shoplifter was detained when police were called. Chloe Virginia King, 24, of Bismarck, said a relative had bought the items using the Walmart app and she was there to pick them up. Loss prevention explained any merchandise purchased online for pickup would be delivered to the curbside area. King was issued a citation for theft of property and was banned from the store for one year.

1:58 p.m.
A Nightingale Nursing Home employee reported the theft of her purse, which she had set down outside near the facility’s back entrance while she stepped into the laundry room for a moment. The purse contained her phone, bank card and $400 cash.

Sunday, Dec. 1
3:06 p.m.
Police were called to Walmart for a domestic disturbance involving two females and a male apparently suffering a mental health episode. A verbal altercation turned physical as they arrived at the store, when the male head-butted his mother’s friend in the nose and causing it to bleed. The disturbance continued when they got back into the car, as the male grabbed at his mother’s face. Both ladies denied medical treatment and did not want the young man arrested, instead wishing to get him mental health treatment. They were informed the suspect, 26-year-old Isaiah Homan, of Okolona, would be charged with third-degree domestic battery, and advised to speak to the prosecuting attorney regarding an involuntary commitment order.

3:30 p.m.
Officers took a female’s delayed report of domestic battery, by her husband, that happened in recent days. She did not want to pursue charges. She was advised of warrant procedures.

Clark County Sheriff’s Office

Monday, Nov. 25
7:39 a.m.
Deputies were called to Iron Mountain Campground after complaints of intoxicated drivers hot-rodding their pickup trucks. The drivers had left the area but were expected to return. A deputy searched the area and found Eithan Waller, 20, of Monticello, Illinois, outside a truck parked partially on Iron Mountain Road near the check-in site; the truck had backed over a sign. Determining that Waller was intoxicated by his unsteady gait and slurred speech, deputies arrested Waller for public intoxication and minor in possession of alcohol.

Tuesday, Nov. 26
3:10 p.m.
Deputies were dispatched to a disturbance at the 4300 block of US Highway 67, Curtis. While en route, the call was updated to a disturbance with a weapon, and then to shots being fired. Detectives were already on scene by the time a deputy arrived, and Jonathan Zachory Francis, 46, was in police custody on charges of aggravated assault. The complainant, who along with her boyfriend live on Francis’s property in his camper, told a deputy that Francis’s “hateful” Facebook post a day prior had prompted them to seek residence elsewhere. The female said Francis had arrived at the camper with a pistol, which he allegedly pointed at the male. She added that he fired the weapon as she grabbed his arm. The bullet reportedly traveled beside the male’s head.

Arrests in Clark County

Tuesday, Nov. 26
Lienarold Crank, 30, Caddo Valley Police Department, possession of a controlled substance, domestic battery third degree, furnishing/possessing prohibited articles.
Amanda Adams, 41, CVPD, public intoxication, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest
Demy Powell, 26, Arkansas State Police, failure to appear, no liability insurance, driving with a suspended license

Wednesday, Nov. 27
Justin LeMaster, 40, failure to appear