Among reports recently released by the Conway Police Department:
1. Aggravated robbery at 400 block of Second Street. Victim reported that two suspects described as young black males, at least one of which had a gun, accosted him at about 8:15 Friday night in an apartment complex parking lot and demanded money. When the man told the thieves that he had nothing of value, the thieves fled.
2. Carrying a defaced firearm at Ingram and Polk streets. An officer initiated a traffic stop for failure to signal a turn early Saturday evening and, after K-9 Dax alerted the officer to a suspected illegal substance, performed a search of the car and its occupants: 22-year-old Eddie Lee Foster Jr. of 1242 Jersey St., Conway, and a 17-year-old male. A few bits of suspected marijuana were found in the vehicle’s floorboard, along with two handguns, one of which was a Rohm RG24 .22 caliber revolver with the serial number filed off. The juvenile, who claimed ownership of the defaced handgun, was arrested on suspicion of carrying a weapon and possession of a defaced firearm. Foster, who claimed ownership of the unmolested weapon, was arrested on suspicion of carrying a weapon.
3. Second-degree battery at 500 block of Second Avenue. Victim reported that she had stopped her car and gotten out on Second Avenue late Thursday afternoon after seeing three females who had been harassing her by phone. In the ensuing struggles, the victim told police, one of these females had approached and swung a baseball bat at her, which she blocked with her forearm and took from the assailant, proceeding to exchange fist blows with this female when the second female approached and started choking her and a third female approached and hit her with a different baseball bat, according to the report. The victim left this altercation and drove to a Jacksonville hospital where doctors advised her that she had a bruised kidney.
4. Aggravated assault at 3500 block of Cutter Ridge Road. Victim reported that a man identified in the report as 29-year-old Brian Eric Majors of 145 Hargrove Lane, Greenbrier, had dragged her behind his vehicle for a short distance after she leaned into the driver’s window to give him a hug and then, after she fell, backed up and struck her again with the vehicle. The victim was taken by MEMS to Conway Regional Medical Center for injuries described in the report as “road rash” and several abrasions. Majors was arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault.
5. Second-degree battery at 1600 Washington Ave. (Hendrix College). Victim reported walking outside of a dormitory at about 2:15 Saturday morning and commenting to a man wearing a sleeveless flannel shirt who was urinating on the side of the building that he’d rather the man not urinate on the building where he sleeps. According to the report, the victim told police that he was unclear on what happened next, “except that he is confident that (the man) attacked him and punched him in the face.” Police later identified this man as 18-year-old Dallas Taylor Odom, whose address is listed in the report as the University of Central Arkansas campus, and arrested him on suspicion of second-degree battery. A set of brass knuckles allegedly in Odom’s possession were taken to Conway Regional Medical Center for comparison to imprints on the victim’s head. In a separate report involving Odom, another victim alleged that earlier Saturday morning he had been beaten by Odom, who stole his sailor’s hat.
6. Residential burglary at 2800 block of Bruce Street. Victim reported that between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m., as she was taking a child trick-or-treating, someone entered her home and stole her purse.
7. Commercial burglar alarm at 1125 Morningside Drive (Fred’s). Police responded at about 7:15 Sunday evening to an intruder alarm at the store. According to the report, officers arrived to find the store’s lights on and the front door unlocked. Soon after entering the store a man pushing a shopping cart approached and told the officers that he saw the lights on and found that the door was unlocked and assumed that the store was open for business and proceeded to shop, though he was confused as to why he seemed the only one there, until the alarm went off and police arrived. A manager arrived and walked through the store with police, finding everything to be apparently in order. The man was released, though police told the manager that his information was on file should anything be found missing.
8. Drunken, insane or disorderly person at 300 block of Harkrider Street. Police responded Saturday afternoon to reports of an man throwing rocks at people and made contact with a Missouri man in his early 50s with a pocketful of rocks who told the officers — after he asked them to step out of the shadow of a billboard and into sunlight — that he had been throwing rocks “at a witch and her demons who kept following him,” among other things about Satan and poisonings and Bill Clinton and why he had to get rid of his shoes, according to the report. The man was taken into custody and held in county jail for Counselling Associates evaluation.
9. Criminal mischief at 200 block of Davis Street. A woman reported early Sunday morning that someone had smashed her Halloween pumpkin, thrown eggs on her car and garage,and left on her porch a burned bag containing a substance described in the report as suspected fecal matter. No damage was evident, according to the report.
10. Unattended death at Stone Road. A citizen found a Conway man in his early 50s unresponsive Saturday afternoon a vehicle that had travelled off the roadway, coming to rest against a tree. When police arrived, a relative was attempting to resuscitate the man and seconds later the Conway Fire Department and MEMS arrived and took over the efforts. The man was later pronounced dead at Conway Regional. According to the report, an officer was advised by hospital staff that the man may have died of a pulmonary embolus, or the blockage of an artery in the lung, “and that there were no suspicious circumstances” evident to those who examined the man.
(Those with information pertaining to these reports or any unsolved crime are urged to contact the Conway Police Department at 450-6120. Staff writer Joe Lamb can be reached at 505-1238.)
