Police shooting probed in El Dorado
EL DORADO -- The Arkansas State Police is investigating an officer-involved shooting that occurred Tuesday night after the El Dorado Police Department responded to a report of a homicide at residence.
Just after 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, officers were called to a residence on West Wesson Street in El Dorado in reference to a homicide.
The El Dorado police and Union County sheriff's deputies went to the scene and confirmed there was a homicide victim at the location.
An officer-involved shooting was also reported at the residence.
El Dorado Police Chief Kenny Hickman said state police were taking the lead on the probe into the officer-involved shooting and the Police Department was investigating the homicide.
Cindy Murphy, communications director for the Arkansas Department of Public Safety, said the investigation into the officer-shooting was ongoing.
-- El Dorado News-Times
Sheriff ID's bodies found near Searcy
Authorities have identified two people who were found dead near a residence north of Searcy on Tuesday morning, the White County sheriff said.
Sheriff Phillip Miller said the victims were found "in a shop building next to a residence" in the 100 block of Muscadine Lane around 8 a.m.
The victims have been identified as Christopher Durham, 46, and Kristalee Durham, 34, Miller said in an email.
He said both were residents of the address on Muscadine Lane.
The Sheriff's Office was investigating the deaths as suspicious, and Miller said foul play or homicide could not be ruled out.
"We will await the autopsies from the [Arkansas State Crime Laboratory] for an exact cause of death," Miller said.
Miller said deputies are looking for a white Chevrolet Tahoe with the license plate 124WDH that they suspect might have been stolen from the property.
-- Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Narcotics raid leads to felony charges
A North Little Rock man faces a dozen felony charges after a raid by narcotics officers on Wednesday morning found him in possession of drugs and guns, two of which were stolen, according to an arrest report.
Officers with North Little Rock police's narcotics unit served a search warrant around 6 a.m. Wednesday at 5307 Jelce Road that led to the arrest of Clayton Yielding, 43, the report says.
Yielding, who is a convicted felon and cannot legally own a gun, had three handguns -- two of which had been reported stolen -- about a pound and a half of marijuana and lesser amounts of methamphetamine, cocaine, psilocybin mushrooms, hydrocodone and clonazepam along with packaging materials, a scale and about $4,200 in cash, the report says.
He faces two counts of theft by receiving of a firearm and one each of simultaneous possession of drugs and a gun, possession of a firearm by certain persons, possession of drug paraphernalia and maintaining a drug premises along with six counts of drug possession. All are felony counts.
Yielding was being held in the Pulaski County jail Wednesday night, an online inmate roster showed, and no bail was listed.
-- Grant Lancaster
Man arrested on drug, gun charges
Little Rock police on Wednesday arrested a man who they say had drugs and a gun while on probation.
Arkansas Community Corrections officers made a home visit around 11:40 a.m. Wednesday to Leonard Okera, 28, at 323 Pine St., during which they located suspected marijuana and a Kel-Tec .380-caliber pistol, according to an arrest report.
Okera faces a felony charge of possession of a firearm by certain persons and a misdemeanor drug possession charge. He was being held in the Pulaski County jail Wednesday evening, an online inmate roster showed, and no bail was listed.
-- Grant Lancaster