FAYETTEVILLE -- One man has been convicted and three others await their turn in the judicial system in connection with the severe beating of a convenience store clerk last summer.
Taje Dardillion Anderson, 20, pleaded guilty April 6 to aggravated robbery and was sentenced to 15 years at the Arkansas Department of Correction, according to Chreea Booher, deputy prosecutor. He was credited with 305 days served.
Police arrested Cavishion Greer, 19, of Pine Bluff, on the same day. He faces charges of accomplice to second-degree battery and accomplice to aggravated robbery.
The off-duty clerk saw Anderson and three others stealing items from the E-Z Mart on North Leverett Avenue on June 4, according to a preliminary arrest report.
"(The men) took items from the E-Z Mart and noticed that a witness was 'snitching' on them to the on-duty clerk about the theft," Booher wrote. "They waited until the witness left the E-Z Mart, and they attacked him."
Anderson and Greer caught the off-duty clerk walking east on Poplar Street, according to the report. Anderson said, "Did you just snitch on us?"
The men then beat and stomped the clerk while two women watched, according to the report. No one called for emergency services.
The group took less than $20 in items from the store. Greer took cigarettes and a lighter from the unconscious clerk, according to a police report.
Greer and two women, Lacy Pendley and Skylar Cleary, both 19, face charges of accomplice to aggravated robbery and accomplice to second-degree battery.
The clerk was diagnosed with a concussion and amnesia. He lost consciousness during the beating, police said. A doctor told police he was hit on the head with an object, according to a preliminary arrest report on Cleary.
Police used surveillance video to help identify those involved, according to court and police records.
At the time of the beating, Anderson had been out of jail on bond in connection with an aggravated robbery of a taxi driver, according to his police report. Police said in the report they believe Anderson "is a violent and dangerous person."
Pendley, Greer and Cleary have no other cases against them, online records show.
Greer was released April 8 from the Washington County Detention Center with a $20,000 bond. He has an arraignment hearing Monday.
Cleary and Pendley were released June 10 on bonds of $2,500, according to online court records. Cleary has a court date set for May 8, and Pendley has a court date set for April 26.
NW News on 04/14/2017