Airman faces 500 child-porn counts
An airman and Cabot resident faces 500 felony charges after investigators found child pornography on his computer, according to police.
Cabot Police Department spokesman Sgt. Keith Graham said James Mounie, 27, became the target of a multiagency investigation after investigators received a tip from the Benton County sheriff's office several weeks ago.
Mounie, a senior airman originally from Virginia, was taken into custody Monday at Little Rock Air Force Base and taken to his 400 Northport Drive home, where officers executed a search warrant.
Graham said that officers found child pornography downloaded on USB drives and a laptop computer, and Mounie was booked in at the Lonoke County jail Monday night.
Facing 500 counts of possession of child pornography, a Class B felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison, Mounie had his bond set at $20,000 after his initial court appearance in Lonoke County on Wednesday.
Calls to the county jail for an update on Mounie's status were not returned.
Graham said that despite the timing of the investigation, Mounie's arrest had nothing to do with the federal investigation that led to the arrest of a U.S. Air Force captain in early April.
Capt. Shane Padilla was indicted on May 7 on allegations he had received sexually explicit images of children in his emails. He is also accused of distributing child pornography. He pleaded innocent before a federal judge Tuesday to the allegations.
3 point gun, take car but abandon it
Police found a car but no suspects after a robbery in southwest Little Rock on Tuesday night.
Police were called to an apartment complex at 7700 N. Chicot Road about 9:40 p.m. by Karja Ross, 25, who told them that he had just been robbed by three men.
Ross said he was at the complex to see a friend when three men "ran up on him" and pulled a gun, police reports said.
The trio forced Ross to hand over his phone and the keys to his Lexus, and they took off in the Little Rock man's car in an unknown direction.
A little more than an hour later, officers went to 115000 Chicot Road and found that the vehicle had run off the road and was on an embankment.
A witness told officers told officers she saw someone run from the vehicle but that it was too dark to get a good description.
The three robbers were described only as black men ranging in height from 5 feet 8 inches tall to 6 feet tall.
Fight with police ends in arrest of 2
Little Rock officers responding to a vehicle fire Tuesday suffered minor injuries when they were attacked by two men, police reported.
Police responded shortly before 9 a.m. to the 6800 block of Dahlia Drive, where Little Rock firefighters were extinguishing the blaze. A woman with a bloody, swollen face soon approached the officers and said she had just been beaten up, according to a police incident report.
Officers attempted to detain the suspect, Joseph Riggins Jr., but he began fighting them, the report said. Another man, Nicholas Robinson, jumped on an officer's back and pulled him off Riggins, police reported.
Riggins, 23, was arrested after being pepper-sprayed by an officer, the report says.
Robinson, 19, was arrested after being forced to the ground by officers. After being handcuffed, he told officers and witnesses that he would come after them, saying, "It's not over," according to the report.
The two were each charged with battery of an officer, disorderly conduct, obstructing governmental operations and refusal to submit to arrest.
Riggins was additionally charged with third-degree domestic battery.
Both men were being held at the Pulaski County jail without bail late Wednesday.
Sex felon arrested in Dillard's assault
A convicted sex offender was arrested Wednesday after purportedly masturbating in front of a woman at a department store and sexually assaulting her, Little Rock police reported.
Terrell Meeks, 24, is accused of thrusting himself onto a 24-year-old woman at Dillard's while his penis was exposed. The location of the store and the date of the purported incident were not provided in an arrest report.
Meeks was arrested 1:15 p.m. Monday at 9115 N. Rodney Parham Road, according to the report. Police reported that he gave officers a phony address and that the address on his driver's license was also inaccurate.
Meeks was charged with second-degree sexual assault, failure to comply as a registered sex offender and being a registered offender with an incorrect address on identification or driver's license.
Fake $100 leads to drugs, arrest
A man who fled from a North Little Rock gas station after attempting to use a fake $100 bill was apprehended with a suitcase of drugs and drug paraphernalia in his vehicle Tuesday, police reported.
Officers responded about 9:45 p.m. to an Exxon station at 2501 McCain Blvd. The suspect, 21-year-old Jordan Laughy, reportedly fled east on McCain when officers arrived, but pulled over in an apartment complex about two blocks away.
Laughy exited his vehicle and a Taser was used on him because he refused to comply with multiple commands by officers, according to an arrest report. Officers reported that after finding a pill that Laughy had tossed underneath his vehicle, Laughy said, "That's Xanax, I have a prescription."
Inside the vehicle, officers found a suitcase containing scales, plastic bags and 2.2 grams of a powdery, crystallized substance wrapped in four separate bags, the report says.
Laughy was charged with forgery, fleeing, refusal to submit to arrest, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a controlled substance.
He was taken to the Pulaski County jail, fingerprinted and released. The jail has been closed to nonviolent, nonfelony offenders since April 29 because of overcrowding.
Metro on 05/22/2014