Little Rock's 44th homicide was a secret - until we found out.

On November 20, 2019 at approximately 11:52 pm, Arkansas State Trooper Michael Kyle Ellison (26, Benton, AR) committed the 44th homicide of the year in the city of Little Rock.

Trooper Michael Kyle Ellison has record of committing two homicides

He killed Brian Brooks, (22, Little Rock, AR) by ramming his 2015 Honda Civic in a PIT maneuver, catapulting Brooks' vehicle off the road into a ditch striking a tree.

Brian Brooks - Little Rock's 44th homicide victim of 2019

The incident with Brooks started in Sherwood when Sherwood police attempted to stop Brooks for an alleged traffic violation.

Sherwood police alleged Brooks refused to pull over and gave chase.

Brooks allegedly fled from Sherwood to Little Rock where Ellison joined in the chase.

You already know how the chase ended.

It was a secret until we found out about it. 

The Arkansas State Police, the Little Rock Police Department and the City of Little Rock wanted to sweep it under the rug. 

44 homicides makes Little Rock look like a dangerous place. Especially when three of them were committed by law enforcement officers.

But Little Rock is a dangerous place. In fact it is consistently listed at the most dangerous city of its size.

Little Rock has a violent crime index shockingly higher than the national average.

This is not the first time Ellison has committed a homicide.

The first time was back in 2016 when he was employed by the Benton Police  Department.

Ellison shot and killed a suicidal high school student as he was following Ellison's commands to lower a handgun the student had pointed at his own head.

That homicide resulted in a lawsuit and Ellison and the Benton Police Department.

Brian Brooks homicide is the subject of an internal investigation conducted by the Arkansas State Police.

Lt. Darren Austin is the lead investigator.

Lt. Darren Austin

We have sent FOI requests to Sherwood PD and the ASP for any video recordings and other records.

We expect them to stall claiming on-going investigations.

Stay tuned for updates.



 

Evidence indiciates that LRPD cops let an intoxicated, naked Conway cop leave the city without any charges as a favor to one of their own.

LRPD cops let a fellow intoxicated cop from Conway, Cebron Hackett,  slip out of  Little Rock after stripping naked and dancing at Discovery night club on October 13, 2019.

TV news coverage shows the LRPD cops treating Hackett much differently than they would have anyone else.

 

Their actions or rather lack of actions, violate their oaths of office and departmental policy.

Hackett should have been charges with public indecent exposure (Ark. Code Ann. 5-14-112) and public intoxication (Ark. Code Ann. 5-71-212).

Will they face any consequences. Doubtful. LRPD is Corrupt from the top down.

All three officers working off-duty side jobs claim the work was police related.

One of those cops should have been fired years ago when he lied in an internal and criminal investigation. 

Curtis Van Pelt - Why is is still employed and FTR with his corrupt history?

Officer Curtis Van Pelt was working an unauthorized off-duty side job at another club back in 2010 when he failed to file a report and take action on an incident that happened at Jazzi's.

Then during the internal and criminal investigation for that incident, Van Pelt  contacted witnesses and tried to influence their statements and lied in an internal and criminal investigation.

Van Pelt got two days for the April violations.

And instead of getting fired for lying in the additional incident (his suspension letter says he was "untruthful") and having his law enforcement certification pulled, Van Pelt only got 30 days.

Curtis Van Pelt and about 50 other LRPD officers that have issues with credibility  should not be police officers. We have all of them listed on our LRPD Liars List.

Van Pelt also had another brush with policy violations back in 1996 that did not result in a suspension.

Officer Kenneth Baker was suspended in 2014 for wrecking his patrol vehicle and making repairs on it with another officer.

Officer Kenneth Baker

  
Baker got a day off for that.

Officer Chertieu Jones was a School Resource Officer until an incident this year.

Officer Chertieu Jones

  
Jones failed to make an arrest (big surprise there) and used excessive force on a student at Henderson Middle School

Jones got 16 hours off and reassigned for those violations. 

That leave us with Officer Kenneth Thompson, Jr.

Officer Kenneth Thompson, Jr.

Thompson has not been suspended but apparently has a disciplinary history as well according to what LRPD stated in a FOI response to us.

"No releasable history" means that he violated a policy and got in trouble but was not suspended.

Thompson was the only officer not working off-duty that night and he is the officer that can be seen in the video from the Discovery club's CCTV recording in the video posted above.

It's crystal clear that all of these officers gave their buddy cop a break.

It's time for Chief Humphrey to clean house at his department. 

If he can't or won't do it, then he need to move on too.

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Conway PD suspended officer Cebron "Chippendale" Hackett for 30 days.

Like most other police departments, Conway PD has policy that governs an officers behavior on and off-duty.

Hackett made a public apology on his personnel Facebook page.

This is not all of the problems Hackett is facing. 

The city of Conway was just served notice of garnishment on an old debt he has refused to pay.

We guess that the title company involved in his home purchase this year missed that judgment against him that attaches to any real estate he owns in the state.

Stay tuned for updates!

Where do LRPD take-home vehicles go? Episode 57: Capt. Crystal Young- Haskins

Captain Crystal Young-Haskins drives an unmarked car to her home outside Little Rock

LRPD 12th Street Substation Captain Crystal Young-Haskins

Like almost 70% of all LRPD officers, Capt. Young-Haskins is a mercenary officer, one that refuses to live in the city that employs them.  

These mercenary officers choose to not be a true part of the community and support it by being a resident, paying property taxes that support our schools and local government.

So we give her an unmarked, leased vehicle to drive to and from her home in Jacksonville to work in Little Rock as a mercenary police officer and we pay for the fuel.

In 2017 we spent $1,716.62 on fuel for Young-Haskins' take-home vehicle.

In 2018 we spent $1,875.98 on fuel for Young-Haskin' take-home vehicle. 

LRPD and the city of Little Rock refused to provide us information regarding the city where the take-home cars go. So much for being transparent and open.

They provided it last year and you can read our post about that by clicking here.

 
Since they refuse to provide the information (the take home city is what we requested), we will post where these vehicles are actually going (their address which was not requested and is exempt under the AFOIA) and how much we pay for the fuel to provide transportation for these officers to drive to and from their homes each day.

More than half of all LRPD officers refuse to live in the city of Little Rock and be a true part of our community. Those are mercenary officers.

Most all of the LRPD take-home vehicles go to homes outside of Little Rock.

 

Many LRPD officers that have take-home vehicles use them to drive to and from off-duty jobs where they moonlight at security for merchants and direct traffic at churches on Sundays.

We believe this violates certain state laws and will be filing complaints with the Arkansas Ethics Commission concerning this illegal activity.

All the information used in this post is public information, readily available from the Internet or from a Freedom of Information Request.   We used the interwebs in this instance.

 

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Young-Haskins had a marriage that ended in divorce.