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100 YEARS AGO April 30, 1919
■ A sergeant and a private from Camp Pike were arrested in Little Rock last night, charged with having held up the wife of one of them at camp yesterday afternoon and with having taken her child away from her at the point of revolvers in the most approved melodramatic fashion. The two prisoners … are Private Louis Bunce … and Serg. Green Gabbard. Lieutenant Prueger of the military police said that Bunce’s wife … was standing in front of the base hospital with her 3-year-old daughter yesterday afternoon when Bunce and Gabbard rushed at her with drawn revolvers demanding the baby girl. Mrs. Fullmer, or Bunce, said that she screamed, but that Bunce seized the baby and that the two soldiers ran from the scene, carrying the little girl. … All the military policemen were given descriptions of the pair and they were arrested near Markham and Main streets. … Bunce had turned the baby over to Lieut. H. H. Railey, who placed her in the detention home.
50 YEARS AGO April 30, 1969
DeWITT — Arkansas County authorities have arrested and charged a third suspect in connection with the burglary of a drug store safe at DeWitt. The sheriff’s office said Tuesday that Sherman Taylor, 21, of Pine Bluff was arrested at a house 14 miles northeast of DeWitt and charged with burglary and grand larceny. Arkansas County Sheriff Gene Garrison said three men were surprised by officers as they were attempting to load a safe from the drug store in to the trunk of a car.
25 YEARS AGO April 30, 1994
■ Little Rock police have arrested 36 people on warrants in a continuing investigation into drug dealing in two Little Rock neighborhoods. The investigations began in response to citizen complaints, calls to neighborhood alert centers and complaint forms sent to the city Board of Directors requesting drug enforcement, police said. The two areas were 40th and Longcoy streets in the John Barrow Addition and the area around 29th and Summit streets, police said. The investigation, which lasted several weeks, resulted in arrest warrants naming 40 people, according to a police news release. Also, undercover narcotics detectives conducted a “reverse buy” at 40th and Longcoy that resulted in 10 more arrests. In such operations, undercover officers posing as drug dealers arrest people who approach them to buy drugs.
10 YEARS AGO April 30, 2009
HOT SPRINGS — After reports of threats that triggered the evacuation of some schools and courthouses Wednesday, a man believed to be mentally unstable barricaded himself inside a Hot Springs motel for hours. William S. Goodman finally surrendered to law enforcement officers a few minutes after 6 p.m. Wednesday. After combing the city for Goodman during the late morning and early afternoon, Garland County deputies discovered that he was hiding in a room at the Fountain Motel, not far from Oaklawn Park Race Track. Nearly a dozen law enforcement vehicles surrounded the motel. Goodman, 37, told authorities that he was armed.