Question abound regarding six LRPD cops receiving Covid Bailout funds

 

Russ Racop - March 14, 2021

At least six LRPD cops applied for and received federal PPE loans, a/k/a Covid Bailouts, according to information found on PROPUBLICA and ACCOUNTABLE US websites.

The six are Aaron Armstrong, James Hooper, Fred Lee, Larry Mears, Larry Mears, Jr., and Donald Williams. 

Like most all LRPD cops , all of these mercenary cops refuse to live in the city of Little Rock (70% of all LRPD cops and 80% of white LRPD cops live outside LR).

LRPD cops must work off-duty in Little Rock and it appears these six claimed the Covid Bailout funds in relation to off-duty work. 

We did not find that any of these mercenary cops had a business entity registered with the Arkansas Secretary of State.

None of their personnel files contained any reference to any non-LRPD outside employment.

Surely more than six of the five hundred something LRPD cops had their off-duty, side jobs affected by the the Rona Pandemic yet all were on the LRPD payroll.

No LRPD cop was sent home and removed from duty unless they caught the Rona and had to go into quarantine. And if that was the case, they remained on the city payroll during that quarantine. 

Let's move on to the details about their Covid Bailout payments.

❖ Aaron Taylor Armstrong, DOB:10/27/1990, is a resident of Cabot in Lonoke County. He used a Little Rock post office box on his Covid Bailout application. Why would he need a Little Rock post office box when he lives in Cabot? Very suspicious. 

Armstrong has been a LRPD cop since 11/13/2017.

 

❖ James  Randol/Randole Hooper, DOB: 5/25/1969, is a resident of Cabot in Lonoke County. He used his Cabot residence address on his Covid Bailout application.

Hooper has been a LRPD cop since 5/25/1990.

 

 

❖ Fredrick Earl Lee, a/k/a Frederick E. Lee and Fred D. Lee (see below), DOB: 8/04/1968, is a resident of Sherwood in Pulaski County. He used his Sherwood residence address on his Covid Bailout application.

 

In 1997, during a drug raid at an apartment complex on Butler Road in Little Rock, a gunfight occurred and Lee was shot in the head and critically injured.

Lee has been unlucky in love as he had been divorced twice.

One wife accused him of infidelity.

 

Lee was also involved in some domestic violence in 2011 with that wife according to a document sent to the US Attorney General.

 

That apparently was one factor in that divorce and was certainly a factor in LRPD firing him in 2000. 

Lee got that reduced to a 30 day suspension by the Little Rock Civil Service Commission.

 

 

Lee has and continues to have issues with his legal middle name.

The Pulaski County Courts use an incorrect middle initial for Lee.

We found a lawsuit that appears to involve him involving unpaid debts.

We have sent a FOI request to the Sherwood District Court for all filings in that matter and will provide an update once those records are obtained.

Not paying debts is a policy violation at LRPD and can result in disciplinary action.
 

❖ Larry Jack Mears, Sr. DOB: 3/11/1960,  is a resident of Benton in Saline County.  He used his Benton residence address on his Covid Bailout application.

Mears, Sr. was hired by LRPD on 9/11/1995.

 

 

We only found one disciplinary record for Mears, Sr.

❖ Larry Jack Mears, Jr. DOB: 11/3/1987,  is a resident of Benton in Saline County.  He used his Benton residence address on his Covid Bailout application.

Mears, Jr. voter registration has him residing in Solgohachia located in Conway County.

Mears, Jr. was hired by LRPD on8/21/17.

 

 

In 2016, Mears, Jr. was involved in a divorce proceeding (it was granted on. He made allegations that his estranged wife was an abuser of illegal prescription drugs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Office of Child Support Enforcement opened a child support case on him in September 2020.

 

 

 

 

Apparently, Mears, Jr. was not paying his child support obligation as evidenced by the past due amounts.

 

 Mears Jr. failed to respond and a motion for a default judgment has been filed.

Mears Jr. lost his home in Conway County in 2018 due to his failure to make the mortgage payments.

 

Failure to pay debts can get you into hot water and possibly fired from LRPD.  

 

❖ Donald Keith Williams, DOB: 3/11/1960,  is a resident of Alexander in Saline County.  He used his Alexander residence address on his Covid Bailout application.

Williams was hired by LRPD on 10/28/85. He has a lengthy disciplinary history (see below). 

 

 

 

Williams has a lengthy disciplinary history at LRPD.

 

Perhaps LRPD Internal Affairs and the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas will open investigations into these six LRPD cops getting the Covid Bailout funds. 

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Here is a link to an informative article about how participating in the Coivd Bailout program expose borrowers to liability under the under the False Claims Act (“FCA”), a Civil War era statute, that the government has continued to use to combat both government contract and health care fraud.  Borrowers must, therefore, remain mindful of the key aspects of the FCA as they use PPP funds and as they apply for loan forgiveness.

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/unwary-paycheck-protection-program-may-create-false-claims-act-liability

911 doesn't answer? Try the LRPD Chief's cellphones

CLR/LRPD issued cellphone number: 501-353-9867

Personal cellphone number: 405-343-8756

Disgraced LRPD cop Corey Hall refused to help stranded hospital staff

Tainted cops like Corey Dion Hall have shattered the reputation of LRPD

 

Russ Racop - February 19, 2021


The Little Rock Police Department has made a big deal of allegedly helping citizens during the winter storm.

They have made copaganda posts on social media sites bragging of their actions.

I drove around several days live streaming road conditions all over Little Rock on Facebook and only saw one LRPD vehicle while out and about.

Once citizen went live on Facebook to detail their contact with a LRPD cop on February 17th. Note: The video was altered to protect their identity.

The citizen, a hospital employee, was trying to a neighbor, also a hospital employee, get their vehicle out of a ditch.

The citizen observed LRPD vehicles drive by twice.

One LRPD vehicle stopped and the Good Samaritan asked the cop for assistance.

He said no.

The citizen, a POC,  noted the number of the LRPD patrol vehicle - 470, an the race of the cop , also a POC.

So we sent a FOI request to LRPD for the name of the cop that refused to help get a hospital employee's vehicle out of a ditch so they could get to work.

Initially the cRaCkeRjACk LRPD FOI Unit provided the name Christopher Johannes.

 

 Well, that was a surprise as Christopher Johannes is white.

Christopher Johannes - another shit LRPD cop

 

Johannes is another one of those LRPD cops that causes folks to have little faith in the cops that work for the sketchy department.

Oddly, Johannes disciplinary record revels he has been suspended at least 20 days for infractions involving city owned vehicles. 

So we fired of another email to the LRPD FOI Unit apprising them that the individual in the video stated that the cop was Black.

The LRPD FOI Unit responded and said that the cop was Corey Hall and blamed the mistake on a shift change.

We certainly recognized Hall. 

✦ He's No.11 on our LRPD Liars List.

✦  He had and possibly still has substance abuse issues.

✦  He got into an argument at a residence in Oklahoma and pointed his LRPD pistol in a man's face.

✦  He got tossed out of a Little Rock bar for being a belligerent, fighting drunk.

✦  He's been fired by LRPD twice and the city has been forced to rehire him due agreements the city has established with the Little Rock Fraternal Order of Police.

 Hall has a lengthy disciplinary history at LRPD dated back to the 1990's.

 

 

 

Hall was hired on at LRPD back in  1995 when LRPD had a residency requirement.

 

 

 

Not too long after he was hired, LRPD found out what a fuck-up he was.

 

This is evidenced by two memorandums found in his personnel file. 

 

 

As no other details about these Internal Investigation files were found in his personnel file, we assume that he was not suspended as a result of either investigation (but some information about these investigations came out in a lawsuit and are detailed later in this post - one case involved an allegation of theft of money from a suspect and Hall striking the suspect over the allegation).

Then in 1997 Hall got his sorry ass fired for the first time.

 

Hall was off-duty and was in Bartlesville, OK. Hall got into an argument with his ex-wife's new man and pulled his LRPD service pistol out and pointed it in the man's face.  Hall got arrested and fired.

 

Hall's arrest and firing made national news at the time.

 

Hall appealed his firing to the pro-police Little Rock Civil Service Commission and he was reinstated and simply suspended for 30 days.

 

In spite of all his fuck-ups, Hall was able to get a promotion to sergeant 

in 2008.

 

 

Hall started seeing another LRPD fuck-up, Lisa Hernandez. At the time, Hernandez was married to Jose Hernandez. The Hernandez's did not divorce until December 2013.

 

 

 

 

Lisa Marie (Smith) Hernandez was hired by LRPD in April 2007.

 

 

 

We are not sure of the exact period of time Hall and Hernandez began seeing each other but on January 7, 2009 the couple was involved in a domestic disturbance that resulted in Hall being suspended for 30 days.

Hernandez caught a 5 day suspension.

 

 

Also in 2009, Hernandez was suspended after she "misplaced" a bag of marijuana that was evidence in an arrest she made.

They continued their dysfunctional relationship and in 2011 it exploded.

In January 2011, the couple was intoxicated and had a fight at a bar in the Little Rock Rivermarket district.

 

Then in July 2011, they got into it at another bar in North Little Rock.

 

It got both of them fired. Hall for his second time and Hernandez for her first. 

Both appealed their terminations and as expected with a corrupt system, both of these fuck-ups were reinstated.

 

Hernandez and Hall each were suspended for 30 days.

 

Word is that one of them was getting some strange on the side and the other found out.

The couple cooled down and then got married in 2014, just a year after Hernandez got her divorce.

In 2015 Corey Hall was back in the spotlight as he had been the supervisor of another shit LRPD killer cop, Josh Hastings.

Pleadings in a lawsuit brought up Corey Hall's terrible records at LRPD.

Corey Hall's personnel file.

 

This part of the court record detailed some missing information from his personnel file we referenced earlier in the post.

Corey Hall was involved in another lawsuit in 2017.  He was ordered to write an apology to a women he used to supervise for using obscene language directed at her and to post that apology at LRPD buildings.

 

In March 2016 Lisa had her name modified to Lisa Nava-Hall. Nava was her mother's maiden last name.

 

In April 2017 Corey Hall filed divorce action against Lisa Nava-Hall and it was finalized in June of 2018.

 

Both of these shit cops remain employed at LRPD and it's no wonder a majority of citizens in Little Rock have little respect for the police department. 

 

It's clear Hall has anger management issues which can be extremely problematic for his law enforcement career and any agency that employs him.

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In keeping with our transparency policy, here are public records readily available about Hall and Nava (yep, another name change).

 

 

Cops like Hall and Nava that have or had substance abuse issues often used cups of ice from convenience store to use for beverages they call "Road Pop".

Looks like Gonzalez takes after his mom.

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***UPDATE - 02/23/21***

 

 A follower reminded us that Gonzalez is one of the LRPD Killer Kop Krew.