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100 YEARS AGO
July 10, 1919
BENTONVILLE — Two unmasked men, each about 35 years of age, half-breed Indians, who shortly before noon today robbed the Bank of Cave Springs of $1,700 and escaped on horses, are reported late tonight to be surrounded on the Holland farm, about eight miles from Cave Springs, by the sheriff’s posse. The presence of mind of Cashier Hurd prevented the robbers getting more money. The men entered the bank and covered the cashier and his son, Will Hurd, with revolvers. They demanded money from the vault, but Hurd told them the vault had a time lock on it and could not be opened at that time. … The robbers secured $1,700 and a sack containing $800, the only cash in sight, and ordered Hurd and his son to follow them outside while they mounted their horses.
50 YEARS AGO July 10, 1969
■ Because of the hot weather, the North Little Rock Electric Department has had to replace about 40 transformers in recent weeks to handle the increased electrical usage, Fred Jarvis, the department manager, said Wednesday. Several areas have experienced brief interruptions of service because of overloaded transformers, Jarvis said. The problem, he said, stems from customers adding more air conditioners or other electrical appliances, increasing the electricity demand.
25 YEARS AGO
July 10, 1994
■ Two teen-agers were wounded and three others were arrested in a drive-by shooting on Asher Avenue early Saturday. Akil Akbar, 18, told police he was sitting in his car in a parking lot near the Taco Bell at 6323 Asher Ave. about 1:30 a.m. when a blue Ford Mustang carrying several men pulled up next to him. Akbar told police the men shot him once in the left leg. Police said Akbar was taken to University Hospital where he was treated and released. James Hughes, 19, told police he was standing in the Taco Bell parking lot when the men in the car fired several shots, one of which struck him once in the right upper leg. Police said a friend took Hughes to Children’s Hospital where he was treated and released. Police said they spotted a Mustang fitting the victim’s description in the 1200 block of Elm Street about 1:45 a.m.
10 YEARS AGO
July 10, 2009
■ Law enforcement officers from four counties and three police departments in the Eastern District of Arkansas teamed up with federal agents in June to arrest 250 fugitives in the 41-county district, the U.S. Marshals Service announced Thursday. The crackdown, now in its fifth year, is part of a simultaneous nationwide effort known as Operation FALCON — Federal and Local Cops Organized Nationally. The national effort resulted in the arrest of 35,190 fugitives and cleared 47,418 warrants, John F. Clark, the director of the U.S. Marshals Service, said in Washington. In the operation, sheriff ’s deputies and police officers are temporarily sworn in as deputy U.S. marshals, empowering them to work alongside actual U.S. marshals in each federal judicial district by crossing jurisdictional lines to track targeted fugitives. In Arkansas’ Eastern District, with headquarters in Little Rock, 52 officers carried out the monthlong operation, clearing 300 warrants, only nine of which were for federal charges, said Jim Hays, a marshals service spokesman. He said officers served 50 narcotics warrants and two murder warrants, arrested eight sex offenders and seized four guns.