Officers see links in 3 hotel holdups

Three recent hotel robberies in Little Rock, including two reported Monday morning, are considered linked, police said.

A suspect has not been named, and no arrests had been made as of Monday.

At Garden Inn and Suites, 3801 W. Eighth St., a 61-yearold desk clerk told officers that an unknown black male walked into the hotel, pointed a handgun at her and demanded money out of the cash register and safe.

The robber later threatened to shoot and kill the worker, then “grew tired” and grabbed money out of the cash register, according to a Little Rock Police Department report.

The clerk described the robber as a black male, between 5 feet 7 inches and 5 feet 10 inches tall. He wore a navy baseball hat, a dark hooded jacket and black-and-white “old school” tennis shoes at the time.

A 27-year-old clerk at M Star, 1010 Breckinridge Drive, told authorities that a black male entered the business nearly six hours after the Garden Inn and Suites holdup and demanded money while pointing a weapon at him. Police, citing surveillance video footage, listed the weapon as a silver pistol.

That video also showed the employee opening a cash drawer and handing it over before the robber fled, the report said. About $460 in cash was listed as being taken.

The robber was described as wearing a gray sweatshirt, dark pants and gloves as well as a “red bandanna pulled over his face.”

Early Thursday, a gunman demanded cash from an employee at the Candlewood Suites, 10520 W. Markham St., according to a report.