Police beat
Police investigate McDonald’s holdup
Little Rock police were investigating after a fast- food restaurant was robbed at gunpoint Wednesday.
Officers responded about 10: 39 p. m. to McDonald’s at 7721 Cantrell Road. Employees said a man wearing black clothing and a black mask had walked inside, pointed a chrome handgun at them and demanded “everything you got,” according to a police report. The man took an unknown amount cash, forced the employees into a freezer and fled on foot. No injuries were reported. Officers viewed surveillance footage of the holdup, according to the report. Near the freezer, they found a black baseball cap worn by the robber.
The robber is described as black, 5 feet 10 inches tall and between the ages of 20 and 25.
No arrests have been made.
Deputies: Inmate found with drugs
An inmate at the Pulaski County jail was arrested Thursday after deputies found drugs on the woman as she was being transported to court, according to an arrest report.
Brandi Turner, 34, of Jacksonville was still in the jail when deputies from the Pulaski County sheriff’s office found a bag of a crystalline substance concealed inside tissue paper, according to the report. After testing the substance, deputies wrote that it was likely about 0.8 gram of crystal methamphetamine.
Turner was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance; fur- nishing, possessing or using prohibited articles; and possession of drug paraphernalia. The jail roster also listed several failure- to- appear charges for Turner.
Police: Combative man spit on officer
North Little Rock police arrested a man Thursday who spit in the face of an officer at the jail, according to an arrest report.
Police were called to the 300 block of West Fourth Street after a woman said her boyfriend, Kwame Couch, 28, of Little Rock, damaged her car before running away. Police found Couch talking to the driver of a semitrailer nearby, but he walked away when he spotted the officer.
The arrest report said Couch refused to comply with officers, screamed profanities and requested that people record his encounter with police. Couch was put into a patrol car and pepper- sprayed when he would not stop trying to kick out the windows of the car, according to the report.
Couch was transported to the Pulaski County jail where he “was combative and was screaming and cursing loudly” and then spit in an officer’s face, according to the report.
Couch was arrested on charges of public intoxication, criminal mischief in the first degree, disorderly conduct, refusal to submit to arrest and aggravated assault upon an employee of a correctional facility. He was still listed on the jail’s roster Thursday night.