A Little Rock man accused in 2019 of federal drug and firearms crimes while he was on parole from the Arkansas Department of Corrections for a 2002 murder conviction was sentenced to seven years in federal prison this week on one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
A Little Rock man arrested in 2019, who successfully argued that drugs and seven firearms seized as evidence in a no-warrant search should be excluded from his trial, reversed course Tuesday and pleaded guilty to one count of being a felon in possession of firearms.
A Little Rock man scheduled to go to trial this month on federal drug and firearms charges was arraigned Thursday on a superseding federal indictment after a court ruling tossing evidence in the case prompted the U.S. attorney s office to dismiss two of the federal gun charges he was facing.
A Little Rock man accused of federal drug and firearms crimes while on parole from the Arkansas Department of Corrections for a 2002 murder conviction is scheduled to go to trial at the end of the month after attorneys and the trial judge met Friday to iron out some pre-trial issues.
When he was released on parole in 2019, convicted murderer Justin Thabit signed a waiver allowing law enforcement to conduct warrantless searches of his residence, vehicle or person.