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100 YEARS AGO Feb. 27, 1924
■ O.B. Atwood, who is under a suspended sentence for stealing an auto more than a year ago, was arrested last night at a farm 14 miles south of Little Rock, when a truck, said to be stolen, was found in his possession. Deputy Sheriffs A. R. Lamb and Jim Jaynes made the investigation. The truck is claimed by Siegel, Kinn and Co., of North Little Rock, according to Sheriff Adkins, who said a representative of the company identified the truck yesterday as one stolen Christmas Eve.
50 YEARS AGO Feb. 27, 1974
HOT SPRINGS — Twenty-three persons have been charged with violation of the Arkansas gambling statutes following a raid on the Atmosphere Lounge in Hot Springs, police said Tuesday. Officers said they observed gambling in progress at the club Monday night. They said dice and cards were confiscated, along with about $3,000 in cash. Police said Raymond Tweele … and Jonah McClure … of Hot Springs, were charged with operating a gambling house, a felony.
25 YEARS AGO Feb. 27, 1999
TEXARKANA — Three men have pleaded guilty to mail fraud in an alleged scheme that involved the theft of more than $300,000 from the Tyson Foods truck maintenance shop at Nashville, U.S. Attorney P. K. Holmes said Friday. … Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Ferraro, of Texarkana, said the scheme involved the overbilling of truck parts. … He said the thefts occurred over “many, many months” in 1996 and 1997, and that the fraud charged involved the mailing of checks.
10 YEARS AGO Feb. 27, 2014
■ A former Independence County woman admitted Wednesday to a federal judge that she only pretended to be a registered nurse during the nearly five years she worked as an elementary school nurse in Searcy. Susan Elaine Boyce, 57, who lived in Pleasant Plains when she was indicted in September 2012 on charges of wire fraud, identity theft and misuse of a Social Security number, was a fugitive until she was arrested last month in Howell County, Mo., and returned to Arkansas. … She told the judge that she completed high school and had “a couple of years of college,” but that she never had a nursing license, as she claimed when she applied in May 2007 to be the school nurse at Sidney Deener Elementary School, where she worked from August of that year until June 2012. … She admitted perpetuating the lie that she was a registered nurse by filling out payroll information using a Social Security number belonging to another person, and passing off someone else’s nursing license as her own to the School Board. Morgan told the judge that when the first license she used expired, Boyce gave the school district a license number belonging to yet another person.