LRPD OFFICER INVOLVED IN RECENT WRECK FAILED TO PAY TAXES WHEN DUE - HER HUSBAND IS ALSO A LRPD OFFICER

LRPD OFFICERS EBONEY AND JOHN WARREN, JR.

We were first to identify rookie LRPD officer Eboney Warren as the officer that apparently ran a stop sign at Charles Bussey and Maple striking a car driven by a mother and her three children Monday evening.

According to witnesses, the rookie did not have her lights or siren activated.

LRPD disputes this. We will have to wait and see what the MVR recordings from the vehicle reveal.  

Take a look at a video made of the accident scene by an eyewitness.

We discovered that the Warren's might be in a pickle with LRPD Administration in that they filed to pay their state income tax when due and the Department of Finance & Administration recently filed a lien against both of them.

Records on file at the Pulaski County Circuit Clerk's Officer reflect the past due taxes have not been paid.

The pair makes a nice income from LRPD. Add income from off-duty employment and they have above average income for Arkansas. One wonders why they would risk jobs by not paying taxes and ignoring collection letters from DFA.

The Warren's with a combined salaries of $91,107.74 are not paupers by any means.

Eboney could and should have used that $5k signing bonus check she got from city manager Bruce Moore to pay the taxes owed. She would have had money left over.

Another problem for the pair is that their voter registration is sketchy.

According to the tax lien the pair lives in Alexander, AR.

According the the Secretary of State, they are registered to vote at different addresses - the hubby in Little Rock and the wifey in Bryant.

Mr. Warren uses the same address on his voter registration that he used on their marriage license from 2011.

All of this is problematic for the Warren's and in turn for LRPD and the city of Little Rock.

Not paying your taxes when due is a violation of the law. In fact its a felony.

And according to A.C.A. § 7-1-103 it is a misdemeanor offense to be registered in the wrong precinct/city other than the one in which you reside:

"(11)  No person shall willfully cause or attempt to cause his or her own name to be registered in any other election precinct than that in which he or she is or will be before the next ensuing election qualified as an elector..."

The Warren's appear to be in violation of several of LRPD Rules & Regulations as tax deadbeats and fraudulent voters.

Violations that involve gross misconduct and can cause discredit to LRPD can result in discipline ranging from a verbal reprimand up to termination.

And there is this:

LRPD General Orders details a Code of Ethics for officers: 

Officer misconduct on and off-duty is an all to frequent event at LRPD.

That is due to a failure in leadership and it falls directly upon befouled chief Kenton Tremar Buckner.

Buckner must be replaced and if Bruce Moore wants to keep his position he will not waste anymore time dancing around the issue.

**UPDATE** 

We obtained the incident report from the accident and Officer Eboney Warren admits that she "disregarded" the stop sign.

LRPD released the MVR video from Officer Warren's patrol vehicle but they removed information that indicated that Warren was speeding reaching speeds nearing 60 mph. The posted speed limit on on the street is 25 mph.

 

SUSPENDED LRPD OFFICER BRANDON "BUTTERBALL" JOHNSON ARRESTED FOR VIOLATION OF AN ORDER OF PROTECTION

Suspended LRPD officer Brandon "Butterball" Johnson was arrested on October 4th for violation of a temporary Order of Protection that had been issued on September 27th.

Johnson was suspended on or about September 24th after it was alleged that he forced a female he pulled over to perform oral sex on him.

We broke that story and you can read our post about that incident by clicking here.

Stay tuned for updates.

***UPDATE 10/11/18 3:30 pm*** 

We obtained court and jail records for this incident as well as other times that Butterball was suspended from employment with LRPD.

MUGSHOT OF BRANDON "BUTTERBALL" JOHNSON

The Saline County Sheriff's Office deleted Butterball's mugshot and arrest information from their website. No doubt they are protecting one of their own. 

They illegally redacted the report they sent us and we will be see the Saline County Sheriff in court in about seven days or so.

According to records obtained from LRPD, Butterball has a less than stellar record with them.

The alleged sexual assault incident is suspension number five for him.

 You might ask are there other rogue LRPD officers like Butterball.

The answer is yes.

You'll be reading about them shortly.

LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT SENDS NOTICE OF INTENT TO TERMINATE TEACHER OBSESSED WITH TV REPORTER

You can view the full story on our Bad Government in Arkansas blog by clicking here.

LANCE CURTIS FRITCHMAN - NOT HIS FIRST BRUSH WITH THE LAW

LRPD OFFICER BRANDON "BUTTERBALL" JOHNSON SUSPENDED OVER ALLEGATION THAT HE LET A DRUNK DRIVER GO IN EXCHANGE FOR A BLOW JOB

BRANDON "BUTTERBALL" JOHNSON

Sources inside LRPD report that LRPD Officer Brandon "Butterball" Johnson has been relieved from duty pending an internal investigation.

Officer "Butterball" Johnson pulled over a suspected drunk driver last night and the female driver told "Butterball" that she could not go to jail for DWI and that she would do anything to keep from being arrested.

Officer "Butterball" Johnson agreed to let the female perform oral sex on him in exchange for letting her slide on the DWI offense.

We were told that IAD investigators  secured the uniform Officer "Butterball" Johnson was wearing last night and the sex act is reported to have been captured on the MVR in Johnson's patrol unit.

Johnson was featured in an episode of our YouTube series, Little Rock Police Gone Wild. 

LRPD would not respond to our requests for confirmation of Johnson's suspension.

Stay tuned for updates.

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LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT MICHAEL POORE HAS NEVER REGISTERED TO VOTE IN PULASKI COUNTY - HE DIDN'T VOTE FOR THE TAX INCREASE FOR LRSD THAT FAILED LAST YEAR

POORE'S CONCERN FOR COMMUNITY IS A FARCE - HE IS NOT A REGISTERED VOTER IN THE COUNTY

Read the full story on our Bad Government in Arkansas blog: http://badgovernmentinarkansas.blogspot.com/2018/09/little-rock-school-district.html

BEFOULED LRPD CHIEF HEADED BACK TO COURT OVER REFUSING TO PROVIDE PUBLIC RECORDS - IT WILL BE THE THIRD TIME IN THE LAST TWO MONTHS

LRPD CHIEF KENTON TREMAR BUCKNER DOESN'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT TRANSPARENCY

Back in June 16th,  LRPD Officer Evan Keith Howell was suspended for pointing a BB gun at a citizen (terroristic threatening) when he responded to a call.

"HEY, CAN YOU TELL A DIFFERENCE NOW?" - ROGUE LRPD OFFICER EVAN KEITH HOWELL

After an internal investigation was conducted, a criminal case file was submitted to the Pulaski County Prosecuting Attorney for review.

The matter was made public on July 9th, and we made a Freedom of Information request.

 LRPD responded our request twenty-two days later on July 31st. 

Responding to our request twenty-two days later is a violation of the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act. The AFOIA requires a response withing three days.

That delay was addressed in the second lawsuit our publisher filed against Chief "NegroPapi" Buckner and that delay caused Judge Mackie Pierce to issue this statement to Buckner at the end of the hearing:

Moving on to this morning, we sent a follow-up request to records we asked for over three months ago.

 LRPD responded.

We must pause here to advise you dear readers of a fact - Lt. Ford is a liar.

He lied when giving testimony in our publishers first lawsuit against his boss and in the second one he made a false affidavit and his lie was caught in the direct questioning of his subordinate, Sgt. Rebecca Junkins, which caused city attorney Alex Betton to not call him to testify even though he was present at the hearing

 

LT. MICHAEL "Lil Liar" FORD

Our publisher started to call him to the stand anyway, but did not want to prolong the hearing as the Judge had another matter hear.  Rest assured, we will have a detailed post about Lt. Michael "Lil Liar" Ford in the coming days.

So once again, our publisher will be appealing LRPD's decision to violate our laws once again and Buckner will be back in court to get "dinged".

Here are some lingering questions about this matter:

Why the officer in his report did not identify Howell's employment as a police officer and did not refer to Howell as Officer Howell in the report narrative is telling.

The report indicates that Officer Howell committed a Class D felony. 

We suspect that the criminal case file LRPD gave to the Pulaski County Prosecuting Attorney accuses Officer Howell of a felony.

Why then is he still employed by LRPD?

Their own policies support his termination. You can view them by clicking here and here.

We found an interesting fact when preparing this post.

The officer that filed the report of this incident, Jude Silva, once arrested Howell when he was a teenager.

 

***UPDATE 9/17/18*** 

On September 10th we called the Pulaski County Prosecuting Attorney's office to make an inquiry about the Howell case and they transferred us to chief deputy Prosecuting Attorney John Johnson.  We were sent directly to his voicemail and we left a message requesting the status of the Howell case. He never returned our call.

On September 11th we called the Pulaski County Prosecuting Attorney's office again and stated we wanted to make a verbal FOI request. We were transferred to the voicemail of Melanie Martin. We made our verbal FOI request. Again we never received a call back, the requested information  or a deniual of our request.

Perhaps Martin is on a leave of absence so she can campaign for her race for district judge.

JOHNSON AND MARTIN (circled in red)

So we called back today to follow up on our request and to see why it was ignored.

After leaving another voicemail message for Johnson, he called back (perhaps it was our remarks about no one having the balls to return our calls that spurred him to call back this time).  We were told that his office had to send the case back to LRPD for affidavits.

Justice works slow in Pulaski County, especially if the suspect is a law enforcement officer.

 

EXCESSIVE FORCE CASE INVOLVING WHITE OFF-DUTY LRPD NON-RESIDENT OFFICER HEADS TO TRIAL

An attorney for two men who were shot by police in Park Plaza mall's parking deck in late 2011 has asked a federal judge to allow a trial over the shooting to proceed next month as scheduled.

Last month, attorneys for the city and the mall asked U.S. District Judge Billy Roy Wilson to grant summary judgment to them and dismiss the case. They argued that the plaintiffs' excessive-force allegations against officer Christopher Johannes, who was working as off-duty security for the mall, are unsupported by the facts.

CHRISTOPHER JOHANNES - ONE OF MANY WHITE OFFICERS THAT REFUSE TO LIVE IN LITTLE ROCK DUE TO CRIME AND SCHOOLS

But attorney Willard Proctor Jr., who represents the two men who were wounded by Johannes' bullets and another who was with them but escaped injury, insisted in a written response that there are factual disputes about the shooting that must be decided by a jury.

WILLARD PROCTOR

"At best, when he fired his gun, he only knew that a white female had been approached by a black male or males," Proctor wrote. "Armed with that, he fired his duty weapon in the Park Plaza Mall parking lot supposedly to stop a threat which he created when he approached the car."

As a result, Keith Pettus, a front-seat passenger in a car being backed out of a parking space, was shot in the face, and the driver, Joseph P. Williams, was shot in the back. Johnnie Campbell, who was in the back seat, escaped injury.

Proctor wrote that "the bullet is still lodged in Mr. Pettus' face. Mr. Williams continues to suffer from his wounds. Summary judgment should not be granted in this case because genuine issues of material fact remain to be litigated."

The shooting occurred about 2:30 p.m. on Dec. 27, 2011, as Johannes approached the 2006 Chevrolet Malibu, which was in a parking space on the mall's lower level. Police said Johannes was assisting mall security officers to whom a shopper had reported that the men asked her 17-year-old daughter to get in the car with them.

The city contends that Johannes fired 12 shots at the Malibu because it was backing out of the space at high speed after Johannes told the driver to stop. Johannes feared that he and an unarmed mall security officer, Sara Hawkins, were in the path of the fleeing vehicle and might be struck, the city contends.

 

The car then changed direction and crashed into a wall of the parking deck, and the three men got out and ran, police said. This was despite Williams having been shot four times in the back and Pettus being grazed by a bullet on his face, according to court documents.

Johannes apprehended Williams and the other two men stopped running, the city has acknowledged. Attorneys for the city say the reason Williams tried to back out quickly after seeing the uniformed officer and the security officer approach was because he had drugs and guns in the car.

Police found two plastic bags of cocaine and about $2,400 cash during a pat-down of Williams, and Xanax, other pills and two pistols inside the car, they reported.

Proctor argued that Johannes' actions that day "were not objectively reasonable. He did not have probable cause to shoot 12 times."

He also argued that Johannes put himself in a dangerous position in the way he approached the backing-out car, and that there are questions "about the sufficiency of the warning that Officer Johannes gave to Joseph Williams."

After his release from the hospital, Williams pleaded guilty to drug and gun charges, and was returned to prison. Now 36, he remains in prison, according to electronic records at the Arkansas Department of Correction. The records say he won't be eligible for parole until 2023.

JOSEPH P. WILLIAMS - INMATE #136164

A jury trial is scheduled 10/9/2018 at 9:30 AM in Little Rock Courtroom # A401 before Judge Billy Roy Wilson.