Thieves get wallet, hurt woman in LR
A 49-year-old South Carolina woman was knocked to the ground by a fleeing SUV after she approached it to try and get back her stolen wallet Wednesday night at a west Little Rock gas station, authorities said.
About 7:30 p.m., the woman was next to her 2017 Jeep Grand Cherokee pumping gas at the Shell station at 11401 Cantrell Road, which is by the Pleasant Ridge Town Center shopping center west of Interstate 430, according to a Little Rock Police Department report.
The woman told investigators that she watched as a "pregnant black female" opened her passenger door, took her wallet from the seat and then ran to a Chevrolet Tahoe that was parked at a nearby pump, the report said.
The victim ran to the Tahoe, opened one of its doors and demanded her wallet back, police said, but the Tahoe backed up, knocked the woman to the ground and then drove off.
The 49-year-old suffered a cut on her elbow, but she declined medical attention, the report said.
No suspects were named on the report, and no arrests had been made at the time it was filed.
Woman says date had gun, took car
A 19-year-old woman was carjacked by a person she had agreed to meet in Little Rock after chatting with him via an online dating website, she told police.
The woman, who lives in North Little Rock, said she had arrived to meet the individual at an address in the 10 block of Falcon Court after 10 p.m. She told police that the man called himself "Dre" on the dating website Plenty of Fish.
He got into the car with her and they started talking, according to a Little Rock Police Department report. The carjacker then reportedly produced a gun from his waistband and said, "You're going to do what I say."
The woman told police that she got out of the car and ran while he drove away in her white 2015 Toyota Corolla on Colonel Miller Road.
She did not know the carjacker's real name, and he took his pictures off the website after the carjacking, according to the report.
The robber was described as having a medium build and standing about 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighing 155 pounds and having a medium complexion, curly black hair and a full beard.
Suspect in shooting of cabbie arrested
Police have arrested an 18-year-old in the Sunday shooting of a cabdriver in Little Rock.
Sebastian Salvador of North Little Rock was booked into the Pulaski County jail Wednesday afternoon, according to jail records.
Little Rock police say Salvador shot a 38-year-old cabdriver in the face a few blocks south of the Little Rock Zoo on Sunday morning.
Kaylop Knight was sitting in his cab at West 12th Street and Fair Park Boulevard when someone walked up to the passenger side and shot him in the face around 3:25 a.m., according to a police report.
Salvador faces charges of first-degree battery, terroristic act, leaving the scene of an accident, driving with a suspended or revoked license, careless driving and theft by receiving.
He is being held at the jail in lieu of $35,000 bond.
Computers stolen, radio station says
A burglar broke into a Spanish language radio station in Little Rock and took thousands of dollars worth of broadcast equipment, an employee told police.
The Police Department was called Wednesday afternoon in reference to a burglary that happened about 7 p.m. Sunday at 3501 S. Arch St., according to a report.
An employee at KTUV, AM-1440, told an officer that someone broke into the station's building near Interstate 30 and took two computers worth a combined $7,600.
One of the devices required a four-digit code, according to authorities. It would be identified by the Federal Communications Commission when turned on and connected to a network.
The burglar "had to have knowledge of the equipment because that was all they took," the employee noted.
Other digital equipment inside the building was not touched or damaged, police said.
The burglar entered a locked gate using a four-digit code, climbed an antenna and went through a wooden picket fence surrounding the station's rear entrance, the report states.
The employee said that the burglar possibly could have suffered some form of electrical shock while climbing the antenna.
Police noted that the door appeared to have been forced open "by body or foot."
Metro on 09/29/2017