CAMDEN — Woman arrested after beating on her daughter
LITTLE ROCK - A Little Rock woman was arrested Tuesday night after, police say, she choked and hit her teen daughter, causing “visible injuries” to the 13-year-old, according to an arrest report.
Arkansas Online reports that Ivory Pearl Hilterbrand, 39, was arrested shortly before 10 p.m. at her apartment in the 5800 block of Baseline Road on charges of aggravated assault on a family or household member and third-degree domestic battery, the Little Rock Police Department report shows.
Hilterbrand was being held in the Pulaski County jail in lieu of a $7,500 bond Wednesday afternoon, according to an online inmate roster.
Arkansas’ first flu death of season is now reported
LITTLE ROCK - The first flu death of the season in Arkansas was reported Wednesday, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Health said.
Arkansas Online is reporting that the person who died was not vaccinated and was between the ages of 45 and 64, according to Meg Mirivel said. The spokeswoman said she did not know the date the person had died and did not release information about where the person lived in Arkansas.
During the previous flu season, the state had a total of 227 deaths attributed to the illness, the most on record for the last three decades, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette previously reported. Most of the people who died were 65 or older.
Mirivel said it isn’t “unheard of” for people in the younger age range to die from the disease. She said it was “hard to know ahead of time” how the coming season would compare, noting that the agency has seen more flu circulating this season than at the same time last year.
66-year-old woman has car robbed at apartment
LITTLE ROCK - A 66-year-old Little Rock woman was robbed of her car while she was unloading it Tuesday night, authorities said.
According to a report from the city’s Police Department, the carjacking took place in the parking lot of the Governor’s Park Apartments, 7820 W. Capitol Ave., shortly before 7:30 p.m.
When two male strangers wearing black approached, the 66-year-old sat in her gray 2016 Hyundai Elantra and tried to close the door, the report states. She told police that one of the robbers forced her out of the car, and the pair then drove off in the car, which has a license plate number of 797RIW.
The woman told authorities that her purse was in the car along with credit cards, a cellphone and her keys.
No arrests have been made.
HBO sets premiere date for ‘True Detective’ show
ARKANSAS - Mahershala Ali, the lead actor in Season 3 of HBO’s True Detective, said Monday during a media event at Tugboat’s Place in Madison County that the Ozark Mountains landscape will be a key part of conveying the series’ storyline to viewers, states Arkansas Online.
HBO has now announced the premiere date for the forthcoming season of True Detective that was filmed in Arkansas.
The network wrote on Twitter that the first episode of the third season, which stars Oscar-winning Mahershala Ali, will air Jan. 13.
The eight-episode season, set in the state in 1980, was filmed in Northwest Arkansas from February to August of this year, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette previously reported.
Ali will play an Arkansas State Police detective from the area, according to information from HBO’s website. Alongside Ali, Stephen Dorff will play a state police investigator, and Carmen Ejogo will play a teacher, the network said. Creator and executive producer Nic Pizzolato, who attended graduate school at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, will make his directorial debut on Season 3, according to information from HBO.
Man jailed for beating son, but pleads not guilty
LONSDALE - An Arkansan accused of beating his 5-month-old son last year, causing bleeding on his brain, pleaded not guilty Monday, states Arkansas Online.
Clayton William Rynders, 22, of Lonsdale faces a charge of first-degree domestic battery, which is punishable by up to 20 years in prison. His next court appearance is set for Dec. 10.
According to a probable cause affidavit, Garland County sheriff’s investigators received a report Nov. 13, 2017, regarding a 5-month-old boy being admitted to National Park Medical Center and diagnosed with bleeding on the brain.
The child was airlifted to Arkansas Children’s Hospital in Little Rock, where he was diagnosed with bilateral retinal hemorrhages and a subdural hematoma. The affidavit notes the exam found the injuries were consistent with “nonaccidental head trauma.”
Authorities said Rynders told hospital staff the child was “playing in his bouncy chair and threw his head back, became limp” and got sick.
On Nov. 15, 2017, Rynders was interviewed at the Garland County sheriff’s office. According to court documents, he told investigators he shook his son when he cried “because it aggravates him and frustrates him.”
He said the child had gone limp before, “but not as badly” as Nov. 13, the affidavit states.