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LR wife accused of faking attack

Little Rock police arrested a woman after they found that she lied about her husband cutting her and that her wounds were self-inflicted.

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Officers met Janet Rhodes early Sunday night and she told them that her husband, Eric Rhodes, was responsible for the knot on her arm as well as a large cut that would not stop bleeding, police reports said.

According to court records, the couple are in the process of a divorce and co-manage a storage business together.

Janet Rhodes told officers she was at their business at 1320 Brookswood and that her husband had been drinking whiskey and suddenly attacked her with a knife.

When officers interviewed her husband, he insisted that Rhodes was the one drinking heavily that day and said he didn't attack her.

According to arrest reports, the couple's son said that Janet Rhodes' injuries were self-inflicted.

She was charged with filing a false police report, a Class D felony punishable by up to six years in prison, and booked in at the Pulaski County jail late that Sunday night.

Thieves ditch car, then steal a 2nd

Two suspects abandoned one stolen car and stole a second one from a motorist who had pulled over to help them Monday, police reported.

Sharita Thompson, 34, was driving a Toyota Camry when about 9:20 p.m., she was flagged down by two men in the 5700 block of Patterson Road. The men asked for a battery jump. After attaching jumper cables to Thompson's car, they entered her vehicle and fled.

Thompson's purse was in the vehicle, according to a police report. She and a passenger, Winta Brooks, 35, were not injured.

A witness told police that he saw the suspects driving away and firing gunshots into the air, the report says. The vehicle left by the suspects, a 2008 Mazda Tribute, had been taken in a separate carjacking, according to police. Its owner was notified that the vehicle had been recovered.

The latest carjacking involving the men is under investigation.

Stopped to help, got robbed, 1 says

A Little Rock motorist told police that he and his passenger were robbed after pulling over to help a man on the side of the road Monday night, reports said.

Mohammed Yousuf, 45, told officers he was driving north in the 8100 block of Frenchman's Lane when he spotted someone on the side of the road flagging him down.

Yousuf told officers that as soon as he pulled over to help, the man on the road pulled a gun and pressed it against his head.

The suspect, described as a 5-foot-8, 150-pound black man in his 20s and wearing a red hat and black shirt, took cash from Yousuf and his passenger before running south on Frenchman's Lane.

The robbery is under investigation.

Metro on 08/13/2014

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