A UCA football player informed police after a man stole his cell phone and demanded $80 for its return.
Conway police were called to the McDonald's on Salem Road Wednesday night to break up a fight. When they arrived, UCA police were already on the scene. They were informed that a student had his car broken into the night before and had his wallet and phone stolen. He used an application to track his phone and approached the man he thought had it. The man denied it but later contacted the student and said he had the phone. He told the student he had to pay $80 to get the phone back.
The student then phoned his football coach, who then called the UCA police. When Conway police arrived, they interviewed the suspect who admitted to having the phone. He stated another person was involved named "Tiny." Police located Tiny at a nearby restaurant and arrested him as well.
Comments (8)
Add comment"Tiny"?
Wait til "Boostah" finds out about "Tiny".
"Tiny" will wish he never "found" that phone.
Yep...
...no one cuts into Boostah's profits without regretting it.
Don't believe me, just ask Jimmy Hoffa.
Getting help from the UCA police must depend on who you are!
I guess my friends son should have been a football player. His DORM room was wiped clean of every electronic device (including a laptop, i-pod, cell phone, Xbox and all of it's games) and several text books (worth hundreds of dollars) last semester and the police told him they would "check into it". He's never heard anything else from them, despite his multiple contacts to the UCA police department. They acted as if it wasn't a big deal and he shouldn't be so upset. One officer was even as bold enough to tell him that they were extremely busy and couldn't dedicate all of their time to searching for his "lost stuff".
I think you misread the story
"He (The Victim) used an application to track his phone and approached the man he thought had it." not the police.
The victim did his own little investigation and found his own phone. No real police investigation was performed. No favoritism was shown because he was a football player as you imply.
I greatly commend the victim for doing the right thing and calling the coach, and police. He could have easily taken the law into his own hands and served a little rough justice to the thief, but he didn't.
Well
After reading this "Conway police were called to the McDonald's on Salem Road Wednesday night to break up a fight." I'm not so sure it wasn't a little of both.
my take
is that the police, UCA and Conway, were there to break up a fight, not find the guy's phone - I guess that was just a bonus.
"Conway police were called to the McDonald's on Salem Road Wednesday night to break up a fight. When they arrived, UCA police were already on the scene"
Rough Justice
So he was giving away free comic books??
Just a guess, and I could be way wrong.
Since there were no assault charges, that are listed in the article anyway, I'm guessing it hadn't gotten physical yet. I'm betting though there was definitely a heated shouting match, which prompted the call of a fight.
Hmm
"a man stole his cell phone and demanded $80 for its return."
Why wasn't he charged with phonenapping?
because
The phone was awake during the whole ordeal.