Police chase man into LR preschool
A man faces 244 counts of endangering the welfare of a minor after a police chase Friday ended with him hiding inside a Little Rock preschool, police reported.
Each count represents a child who was inside Full Potential Child Development Center at the time, according to police.
Officers surrounded the center at 8109 Interstate 30 Frontage Road about 11:30 a.m., according to a police report. They'd chased the driver of a stolen 2015 Nissan Altima from Scott Hamilton Drive and Baseline Road, about 1.7 miles away.
Officers escorted occupants of the 28,789-square-foot day care outside. A police dog soon found the suspect, Mario Greer, 29, hiding in a closet, according to the report. Greer refused to come out until an officer set the dog loose, the report said.
After being arrested, Greer was treated at the scene for a small cut on his elbow.
No other injuries were reported.
"The suspect was in a portion of the building that is unoccupied due to construction and it is locked off from the primary portion used for the day care," police spokesman Lt. Sidney Allen said. "The suspect was never in contact with the students or staff."
In addition to endangering the welfare of a minor, Greer was charged with fleeing, theft by receiving, refusal to submit to arrest, attempting to influence a public servant and numerous traffic violations.
Police said a passenger in the stolen Altima, Kadrian Wilson, 23, tried to lead officers away from Greer after he ran inside the preschool. She was charged with obstructing governmental operations.
Greer, who had been on parole, was being held in the Pulaski County jail late Friday.
1 jailed in holdup at LR Burger King
A man was arrested Thursday morning, hours after he and another man held up a Little Rock fast food restaurant, according to police.
Officers responded about 12:20 a.m. to Burger King at 11410 N. Rodney Parham Road. An employee, Heather Popejoy, 37, said she'd been closing the restaurant when two men approached her at the front door, a police report states. The men forced her into a manager's office, held her at gunpoint and demanded she open a safe.
Popejoy couldn't open the safe, so the men fled, according to the report.
One of the men struck her in the head with a pistol during the holdup, but Popejoy declined medical treatment at the scene.
About 11 a.m., police arrested a suspect more than 6 miles away at 3917 W. 12th St. Christopher Wells, 19, was charged with aggravated robbery and second-degree battery.
Police reports did not state how officers identified Wells as a suspect.
Wells, of Little Rock, was additionally charged with second-degree escape after officers said he tried to flee from them at the Pulaski County jail.
He was being held at the jail with bail set at $40,000 late Friday.
No other arrests had been made in the holdup.
Police reports show it was the fifth robbery at that Burger King since May 2013.
LR woman robbed by pair, police say
Masked intruders robbed a woman at gunpoint at her Little Rock apartment Thursday, police reported.
Officers responded about 12:45 p.m. to Chapel Ridge Apartments at 24800 Chenal Parkway. Treyondria Jones, 19, said two men with silver handguns who wore shirts over their faces had kicked in her door, according to a police report. One of the men held her at gunpoint while the other searched the apartment.
The robbers, described only as black, took Jones' cellphone and fled. She didn't know if the robbers took anything else, the report states.
No injuries were reported.
Police searched the area but made no arrests.
Metro on 04/18/2015