“We was just playing”
Drunken lovers ’ quarrel lands couple in court
By the Evening Times News Staff
news@theeveningtimes.com
Three men and a woman were called up in the jail during Judge Fred Thome’s court each with felony charges.
“You are charged with possession of meth or cocaine greater than 10 grams.”
Judge Thome asked each one where they lived.
“Marion.”
“Marion.”
“Marion.”
“West Memphis.”
He then asked if they worked and where.
“Yes, sir.”
“How much do you make a week?”
“$400.”
“Who do you work for?”
“A landscaping company.” To the next man he asked the same question.
“I am a stay at home dad.”
“How old are you?”
“ 22.”
He asked the woman the same question.
“I was to start working at the dog track.”
And to the last man, “Where do you work?”
“For a maintenance service.”
“Is one of these man your boyfriend?” He asked the woman.
“No!”
“All of you go talk to the public defender.”
A man charged with aggravated robbery was asked where he lived.
“West Memphis.”
“Are you employed?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Where.”
“A landscaping company.” “How much do you make a week.”
“$400.”
“Talk to the public defender.”
A woman charged with a theft by receiving felony was asked if she was employed.
“Yes at a rental property office.”
“How long?”
“Three years.”
“Where do you live?”
“West Memphis.”
“You can talk to the public defender too.’’The next man had felony charges of possession of drugs and possession of a firearm.
“Where do you live?”
“Harvard Yard.”
“Are you employed?”
“I help out with my folks.” “How long have you been doing that?”
“Six or seven months.”
“How much do you make?”
“$400 to $500 a week.”
“Who do you have to support?”
“My kids.”
“Do they live with you?”
“They go back and forth between me and their momma.”
“See the public defender.”
A man in jail was charged with criminal trespass at the dog track. He pled no contest.
“You know you have to write a letter to the dog track before you can go back there?”
“I did and they sent me a letter back so I thought it was okay for me to go there. I was there with my auntie just to eat.”
“You stole a purse at the track in 2016.”
“It wasn’t a purse it was a receipt.”
“$100 plus court costs.
Don’t go back to the track.”
Another man in jail was also charged with criminal trespass at the track. He also pled no contest to that charge and his charge of failure to appear.
“Why didn’t you come to court?”
“I was incarcerated in Mississippi county.”
“He just went to court on Friday on other charges,” said the court clerk.
“So, you are a habitual criminal?”
“No, just bad luck.”
“$250 plus court costs on the criminal trespass.
I’ll dismiss the failure to appear.”
A man charged with possession of controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia pled no contest to both charges.
“What do you have to say?”
“I’m from Colorado and it is recreational there.”
“But not here. You told the police officer ‘f— you, b—, I don’t have to let you do that’ when he went to search your car.”
“I was military police and they didn’t do proper procedure.”
“I’ll change your plea to not guilty and we can have trial on that. Be back here on August 27th.”
A woman in jail pled no contest to her charge of public intoxication.
“Me and my boyfriend were walking from one hotel that was too expensive to go to another hotel.”
“The police said you two were arguing.”
“We was just playing.”
The man came forward and was asked how he pled to public intoxication.
“No contest.”
“When did you two go to jail?”
“Friday morning.”
“Let them both out at noon tomorrow.”
A man charged with loitering pled guilty.
“What would you like to tell me?”
“I wasn’t lying. I went to get a cup of coffee and they called the police on me.”
“Let him out at noon today for time served.”
The next man was charged with driving on suspended.
“I honestly didn’t know my license was suspended.”
“It was suspended out of Osceola. You probably didn’t pay a ticket. When did you go to jail this time.”
“Friday.”
“$265 plus court costs and two days jail which will probably be time served.”
A man in the court room was charged with theft by receiving and pled no contest.
“Are you on a parole hold?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Why did you have a stolen plate on your car?”
“We found it.”
“That’s illegal! $500 plus court costs.”
A man who had charges of criminal trespass pled guilty.
“Why did they ask you to leave the property at Kroger?”
“I don’t know. I was too drunk. I was going to hitch a ride to Little Rock but it was too hot outside so I came back.”
“$250 plus court costs.”
A young man in the courtroom was charged with no driver’s license, no insurance and disregarding traffic device. He pled no contest.
“What grade are you in?” “I’ll be going in the 9th grade.”
“Are you going to go back to school?”
“Yes.”
His mother was in the courtroom with him.
“Mom, is he out of control?”
“Yes.”
“Whose car were you driving?”
“I don’t know.”
“You do know! Now whose car was it?”
The man named a girl.
“Tell him whose car it was,” said the mother.
“He is not honest. You know if you had come in here and told the truth I would have given him community service but since he can’t be honest the fines will be $55 plus court costs on the driver’s license. $265 plus court costs on the insurance and $65 plus court costs on the disregarding the traffic device.”
Fred Thorne
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