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Ark. police investigate fatal shooting on I-40

Ark. police investigate fatal shooting on I-40

Arkansas State Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a driver on I-40.

The victim was spotted on Interstate 40 in Conway, Arkansas around 5 a.m. Sunday morning near the Dave Ward Drive interchange.

31-year-old Jose Martinez of Conway was found shot to death in his pickup truck.

Investigators suspect someone pulled-up along Martinez's truck and shot him.

State police are asking any witnesses to contact them at 501-618-8000.

$120,000 stolen from City of West Memphis through checking scam

$120,000 stolen from City of West Memphis through checking scam

In a developing story, more than $120,000 was stolen from the City of West Memphis through a checking scam.

City officials said someone used special software to transfer money from city accounts to private off shore accounts.

They said the hackers used special software to forge fake accounts and come up with fictitious names.

The Evening Times reports all the money is covered by insurance.

West Memphis officials said they are changing the way they do business to prevent any further theft.

Christmas decoration vandalism in Jonesboro

Christmas decoration vandalism in Jonesboro

A Christmas Grinch has been trying to steal Christmas in Jonesboro, AR.

Jonesboro Police were called to two different homes this week where christmas lights were cut.

Phyllis Greenway is the owner of one of those homes.

She believes someone used scissors or a razor to undo all of her hard work.

"I thought maybe I might have stepped on a bulb, you know because it was low and then i thought it might have been a squirrel and then i really looked at it and i thought oh no that's been cut on," she said.

Police are asking anyone with information on these holiday vandals to call 870-935-STOP.

Ark. driver jailed for allegedly stealing $42,000 worth of meat

Ark. driver jailed for allegedly stealing $42,000 worth of meat

Arkansas health officials are disposing of $42,000 worth of meat after a Little Rock truck driver was accused of not delivering the hams and hot dogs and selling them himself from a refrigerated trailer.

According to the Associated Press, Police Sgt. Cassandra Davis said Robert Lee was arrested Thursday on suspicion of theft by receiving after an officer spotted him and another man unloading a trailer containing 549 boxes of hot dogs and 384 hams.

Mother of West Memphis Three victim arrested

Pam Hicks, the mother of one of the three boys killed in West Memphis in 1993, has been arrested.

Hicks, who is also known as Pam Hobbs, was arrested at her home in Blytheville, Arkansas, and is charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, and trespassing at the business next door.

According to an incident report, she is banned from the store but showed up twice anyway. The first time she was trying to see who was inside and gave the middle finger to the people who were there. The second time, deputies say she was driving up and down the driveways and squealing her tires.

Green spray paint solves Memphis City School air conditioner theft

Green spray paint solves Memphis City School air conditioner theft

A Memphis City Schools measure to curb the theft of air conditioning units from school campuses solved a mid-October theft from Doubletree Elementary School.

After repeatedly having air conditioning unit coils stolen for scrap metal, Memphis City Schools started marking their coils with fluorescent green spray paint.

On Oct.12, Doubletree Elementary School staff found four rooftop A/C units had been stripped of their coils and destroyed to the tune of $34,000 worth of damage.

However, Crittenden County Recyclying called police to report a batch of coils marked with green spray paint that had been brought into their business to be sold as scrap.

MCS officials were able to identify the coils.

The scrap yard had a copy of the driver's license of the person who sold them the coils.

Now, Dontell Vester is charged with one count of vandalism between $10,000 and $60,000 and one count of theft between $10,000 and $50,000.