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100 years ago

June 29, 1919

• Lee Wright and Ed James of Owensville, Saline county, yesterday were ordered held under $500 bail each for the next meeting of the federal Grand Jury, charged with blowing up a dipping vat at Owensville. They were arrested last week by Deputy Sheriff Ed Davis and Henry Moore of Owensville, directly after, it is alleged, they had set off the dynamite that destroyed the vat. Deputy Sheriff Davis and Mr. Moore heard the explosion and went immediately to the vat. As the ground was soft from the recent rains it was easy for them to track the men to the place where their horses had been left, and then to follow the horses tracks to their homes.

50 years ago

June 29, 1969

BLYTHEVILLE -- Burglars broke into a safe in the office of Nick Rose, a planter and constitutional convention delegate, and escaped with about $2,000 in cash Saturday, Mississippi County authorities said. The plantation is about 12 miles west of Blytheville. Officers said burglars took a mobile torch about a half-mile through a cotton field from a farm building to the office, and then cut a square hole in the vault, crawled in and took the money.

25 years ago

June 29, 1994

PINE BLUFF -- Two Southeast Arkansas sheriffs last week may have led one of the most successful and largest marijuana raids in the state's history, officials confirmed Tuesday. Desha County Sheriff Don Smith said he learned of the possible record when the Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee met last week in Little Rock. Smith said officers uprooted more than 13,000 plants at the Morgan Point Hunting Club in Arkansas County -- 10,928 on June 20 and 2,500 on June 21 -- and found some scattered plants near Pendleton Bridge along the Arkansas River. Smith said eight officers from Desha and Arkansas counties participated in the operation led by Smith and Arkansas County Sheriff Wayne Simpson. It also included Don McSwain, a warden in DeWitt with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. Simpson, on vacation, could not be reached for comment Tuesday. Officers made no arrests. They burned the plants near Dumas.

10 years ago

June 29, 2009

• Thieves made off with cell phones and several boxes of firecrackers during two robberies of fireworks stands near Little Rock early Friday and early Saturday, a spokesman for the Pulaski County sheriff's office said. At 2 a.m. Friday, two cars, one purple and one blue, pulled up to a fireworks stand at Arch Street Pike and Dixon Road, southeast of Little Rock, and five or six black men got out, Pulaski County sheriff's office spokesman Lt. Carl Minden said. The men beat up an unarmed security guard, stole his cell phone and loaded up a "large amount" of fireworks before driving off. The guard declined medical treatment, Minden said. At about 5 a.m. Saturday, six or seven men drove up to the 24-hour Fireworks World tent at Kanis and Cooper Orbit roads, west of Little Rock, in two Mercury Grand Marquises, one forest green or black and the other maroon. Two employees were helping some of the men look at fireworks when two others took out handguns and ordered the employees to the ground. The men stole cash from the register and several boxes of fireworks -- about $2,000 worth. They also stole a cell phone from one of the employees before driving away.

Metro on 06/29/2019

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