– According to a report from Officer Jayden Archer of the Blytheville Police Department, a traffic stop was initiated at the intersection of Ash and 16th around 11 a.m. Oct. 16.
As Archer approached the vehicle, he observed three occupants in the silver Toyota Corolla and the passenger in the back seat appeared to have a firearm. Once Archer neared the rear of the vehicle, the driver accelerated and vehicle sped away.
Archer began to pursue in his squad car and the Corolla’s speed reached more than 70 miles per hour. The Corolla turned right on Basin and the driver lost control, crashing into a residence at 1601 Basin. The officer saw two of the occupants fleeing the scene but he was unable to locate them after a brief search.
The vehicle was towed and property seized from the vehicle. It included a marijuana, a scale and a movie-prop $100 bill.
– Officer Stephanie Fair, of the BPD, responded to a domestic disturbance call Oct. 17 along Northeast Parkway.
Upon arrival, the victim Sharon Smith claimed Lloyd Williams had threatened her with a knife. Williams was located in the residence where he was seated on a couch. Initially, Williams refused to exit the home but was convinced to come outside after other officers arrived on the scene.
Upon searching the home, a large kitchen knife was found under the couch where Williams had been seated.
Williams was arrested and charged with aggravated assault, domestic, and disorderly conduct and taken to the Mississippi County Jail.
– Three Blytheville businesses recently reported receiving counterfeit bills.
Both Taco Bell and Domino’s Pizza have received counterfeit money totaling $260. Oct. 13, $200 in fake bills were passed at Taco Bell by a black female who was ordering through the drive thru. Four days later, a white male who was accompanied by a white female, in a silver car paid for their order with $60 (six $10 bills) in counterfeit money at the Domino’s drive thru.
While there was little information gathered for the Taco Bell incident, Domino’s employees provided a license plate number for the vehicle which had been at its drive thru. Police used that to determine the owner’s residence and identified the driver and passenger. According to Lt. Jason Simpkins’s report, Robert McCone and Kimberly Bailey are listed as suspects for the Domino’s crime.
In addition, a Farmer’s Bank and Trust employee identified a counterfeit $20 bill during a deposit transaction Oct. 19. A report was filed and the bank still has possession of the fake money.
– A traffic stop Oct. 19 resulted in the arrest of Bryan Caruthers for possession of a firearm.
Caruthers was a passenger in a vehicle which had been stopped for expired tags and as Officer Seth Rounsavall reports, a marijuana odor could be smelled coming from the vehicle. Officers conducted a probable cause search and located two guns in the vehicle – a .380 automatic and a AR-15 pistol.
The .380 was concealed underneath the floor mat between the back passenger seats where Caruthers had been sitting.
Caruthers, a convicted felon, was arrested for possession of the handgun by certain persons.
– Lt. Simpkins reports damage to a storage building resulting from a car crash Oct. 20.
The damage was the result of a Ford F-150 slamming into the building as the vehicle’s two occupants were fighting for control of the steering wheel along South Division.
According to Simpkins’s report, Altasha Hawkins, the passenger in the truck, claims her and the driver Milton Burton were arguing and Burton struck her in the left eye. She then got into the floorboard and began grabbing for the steering wheel. The driver lost control of the vehicle and the truck collided with a building on the property of Big Daddy’s Discounts. The owner reported approximately $7,200 damage to the building.
Hawkins was advised to file an affidavit against Burton.
– A traffic stop Oct. 24 yielded a handgun, drugs and drug paraphernalia.
According to a report from Detective Joshua Simmons, he initiated a traffic stop on a grey Ford Mustang near Edwards Street. Once Simmons exited his vehicle so did the driver. The driver, later identified as Marquan Razor, proceeded to flee and Simmons chose not to pursue.
Instead, the detective secured Razor’s car where he located a glock-style handgun, two jars of marijuana, a pill bottle containing three ecstasy pills, two digital scales and cocaine. Through other evidence gathered in the vehicle, Simmons was able to determine that Razor was the driver.
-Three men were arrested after video from a Sky Cop showed them to be inside a parked vehicle “rolling marijuana joints”.
Officer Michelle Grubbs and another officer were dispatched to the scene in the area of Milan and East Rose. She observed Travis Pope sitting in the driver’s seat of the Mustang with a loaded semi-automatic weapon in his lap as well as a large sum of cash in his hand. The gun was secured and Pope and two passengers Damontae Thomas and Jamaa Carter were asked to exit the vehicle.
All three were detained as the officers searched the vehicle where they located more contraband. It was also learned that Carter had a citable warrant through BPD.
All three were arrested and charged with Simultaneous Possession of a Drugs and Firearms, possession with purpose to deliver controlled substance, and engaging in criminal activity. Carter was also served on his warrant.
Pope later was charged with Terroristic Threatening 1st degree for telling Officer Grubbs that “someone would definitely kill you, not me, but someone definitely would want to kill you”. He picked up an additional of Obstructing Government Operations.