Jailed man faces fifth assault case
A 23-year-old man accused of four attacks on women in the North Little Rock area has been linked to a fifth assault case, authorities said Monday.
On Thursday, DNA evidence tied David Lee Jones Jr. to a rape reported June 5, North Little Rock police said. A 19-year-old Hot Springs resident told police that a man assaulted her behind the Walgreens at 2500 McCain Blvd. in North Little Rock, according to a report.
Jones was arrested June 10 after he was identified as a suspect in a rape earlier that month in the 4800 block of John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Arkansas Online previously reported.
Police said investigators interviewed Jones and later charged him in three additional cases:
• An attack on two women in Lakewood Village on March 25.
• A rape and robbery in the 4900 block of Allen Street on April 11.
• An assault of a woman who was jogging on Five Mile Creek Trail on April 16.
In those cases, Jones faces charges including four counts of terroristic threatening, breaking and entering, aggravated robbery, second-degree battery and rape.
Arrest reports released in June say Jones admitted involvement in the Allen Street sexual assault and the attack on the jogger.
Jones was still being held at the Pulaski County jail as of Monday afternoon with bail set at more than $4 million, records show.
Knife-wielder said to chase man, 65
North Little Rock police said a truck driver pulled out a knife and chased a man across a parking lot early Sunday.
It happened around 8:30 a.m. at 3300 Valentine Road near the street's intersection with U.S. 70, according to a report from the city's Police Department.
After the 65-year-old victim asked the driver to move his vehicle so he could exit the parking lot, the man pulled out a 6-inch knife and threatened to cut him up "real good," authorities said.
At that point, the victim "decided it would be a good idea to walk away," but when he turned to go, the driver punched him in the side of the head and chased him across the parking lot, the report stated.
The knife-wielder, last seen fleeing toward U.S. 70, was described as a 200-pound black male standing 5 feet 10 inches tall and driving a truck with a flat-bed trailer.
The 65-year-old, who was listed in the report as being from Deville, La., told officers that his $400 prescription glasses were damaged beyond repair during the assault.
No suspects were named and no arrests had been made at the time of the police report.
Jackets worth $480 taken from LR store
A woman who possibly had a knife took about $500 worth of clothes from a Little Rock department store Saturday, according to a police report.
Officers responded to the J.C. Penney at 2600 S. Shackleford Road shortly after 2 p.m., where an employee said a woman had gone into the store and taken three leather jackets without paying, the report stated.
A cashier had tried to talk to her, the employee told police, but the robber "displayed a shiny object" in her pocket and fled the store. The report listed the object as a knife/cutting instrument.
The jackets reportedly have a total value of about $480.
Authorities said security footage of the parking lot showed the woman getting into a silver 2000 Ford Taurus.
A witness in the lot identified the woman, noting that she takes stolen clothes to an address on West 13th Street, according to the report. There is a man at that address who sells the clothing with the tags still on, the witness told police.
The 52-year-old woman named as a suspect on the report did not appear in the Pulaski County jail's online inmate roster.
Man robbed storetwice, police say
Authorities said a robber has held up the same Little Rock convenience store twice in two weeks.
According to a report from the Little Rock Police Department, the armed assailant walked into the business located at 13622 Sardis Road in the southern part of the city around 4:50 p.m. Friday.
He held a large black knife above his head and took $500 from the register, authorities said. He then grabbed a carton of Newport cigarettes and Swisher Sweet cigars before leaving the store and heading for the woods, according to the report.
The robber was described as a black man in his early 20s who weighs about 140 pounds and has short and curly black hair. A cashier told police it was the same man who had robbed the store Nov. 3.
No suspects have been named, and no arrests had been made at the time of the police report.
Assaulted in SUV, woman tells police
Little Rock police said a 25-year-old woman was sexually assaulted by a man who gave her a ride Friday afternoon.
According to a report from the Little Rock Police Department, a man in a red Chevrolet Tahoe approached the victim and another woman and offered them a ride.
After dropping off the other woman, the man made a stop at his residence, where he changed into scrubs "because he was going to work," authorities said.
The man later pulled over in an alley, telling the 25-year-old Jacksonville resident that his vehicle was overheating, authorities said. He then grabbed the victim's jeans and demanded sex, according to the report. He also tried to take her shirt and pants off, she told police.
The woman was able to honk the horn, but the assailant took her phone when she tried to call police, the report stated. Authorities said she ran from the SUV shortly before 4 p.m.
In the report, the woman described the suspect as a black man in his 20s or 30s who stood 6 feet tall and had short, sandy hair.
No suspects were named and no arrests had been made at the time of the police report.
Stun gun deployedin fracas at shop
An officer used a stun gun on a man who broke a cash register scanner with a shopping basket during an altercation at a North Little Rock discount store, authorities reported.
Aaron Dobbins, 23, of North Little Rock was arrested around 10:35 a.m. Sunday on charges of criminal mischief, assault on a family member, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, according to a report.
Officers were notified by customers in the parking lot of the Dollar Tree at 3801 Camp Robinson Road that a disturbance was happening inside the store.
Dobbins was found yelling profanities at a female employee, who was later identified as his girlfriend, the report states.
After Dobbins refused to leave, an officer tried to arrest him, but Dobbins fought back, according to authorities.
The officer used a stun gun on Dobbins before he was taken into custody, police said.
The store manager valued the broken register scanner at $1,200.
Metro on 11/14/2017