Arkadelphia Police Department
Friday, Nov. 6
Officers were dispatched to the 500 block of South Sixth Street in reference to terroristic threatening. The complainant said a woman came to the street at the edge of her property twice in the day, calling her names and threatening to hurt her.
Thursday, Nov. 5
Officer Woody Perry was dispatched to the 1500 block of Walnut Street in reference to acetylene and oxygen tanks, worth $100 total, stolen from a man’s shed. The complainant said he noticed the items went missing in late October, and thought his sister may have taken them since she has stolen from him in the past. He later recovered both items from a pawn shop. Perry made contact with the man’s sister, who admitted to taking the items, and said she would make arrangements to return them to avoid prosecution.
A Walmart employee reported that a customer tried to leave the store without paying for some items.
Wednesday, Nov. 4
A resident of the 200 block of South 24th Street reported harassment from her ex-boyfriend after “breaking it off” with him earlier in the month.
Tuesday, Nov. 3
A resident of the 1700 block of Walnut Street reported her mother-in-law harassing her by phone and text messages over family issues.
A school bus driver reported a minor accident at the intersection of West Pine and W.P. Malone Drive, where a tractor-trailer rig negotiated a turn and hit the bus’s mirror, pushing it back to the entrance doors and shattering the glass.
Monday, Nov. 2
A Powder Mill Apartments resident reported her boyfriend hit her after an argument. She said he hit her on the head and leg. He also apparently threw a roll of trash bags at the wall hard enough to knock a hole in it.
A resident of Cagle Town Road reported that someone stole her purse from her shopping cart at Walmart. The loss prevention officer caught the suspect and made him give back the checks he had torn out of her wallet, but apparently let him get away with $200 of the woman’s cash.
A resident of the 1700 block of O’Connell Street reported losing her purse at an unknown location, possibly in a rental car in Arkadelphia.
A Henderson student reported his bicycle was stolen from Newberry Hall in late October.
Sunday, Nov. 1
A resident of the 2200 block of Forest Park Drive reported the theft of an iPhone.
