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100 YEARS AGO June 13, 1917

A resolution recommending to the courts that they permit no indictments returned by the Grand Jury on bootlegging charges to be changed to misdemeanors and offenders fined instead of being sentenced to the penitentiary has been adopted by the Pulaski County Grand Jury. Members of the Grand Jury say that because bootlegging is a felony the charge should not be reduced after an indictment has been returned.

50 YEARS AGO June 13, 1967

MORRILTON — Three men who escaped from the Conway County Jail were captured early Monday at La Follette, Tenn., about 40 miles north of Knoxville, Conway County Sheriff Marlin Hawkins said. The three and a woman companion, identified by Hawkins as Jo Ann Price, 20, have been charged with armed robbery and kidnapping of Eugene Scott, 42, of Knoxville. Hawkins said the woman had been with the men since they left Morrilton. Hawkins said he had started extradition proceedings and that the four would face charges of armed robbery of a Morrilton man.

25 YEARS AGO June 13, 1992

The FBI obtained a second arrest warrant Friday charging escaped Arkansas prison inmate Charles Lloyd Patterson Sr. with air piracy. Patterson, 47, is accused of stealing a 1978 single-engine Piper Warrior at gunpoint Sunday after asking for a lesson at a flight school in Boulder, Colo. Authorities have been searching for Patterson since April 9, when he allegedly hijacked a plane he had chartered from Pine Bluff to Little Rock. Patterson, of Batesville, was serving a 40-year sentence for conspiracy to commit murder and other charges and was on a five-day furlough at the time.

10 YEARS AGO June 13, 2007 m

Corrections officers from the McPherson Unit traveled to the Department of Correction’s headquarters in Pine Bluff recently to petition Director Larry Norris to remedy what they perceive as unfairly low pay at their Newport women’s prison. They argued that despite having some maximum-security inmates, prison administrators unfairly classify the 600-bed prison as a Tier 2 unit along with medium-security units like Calico Rock, Ouachita River and Pine Bluff. That classification amounts to a difference in thousands of dollars in pay each year.