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From Conway Police Department reports

A note on the proceedings

Sunday, Aug. 13 at 10 minutes after 2 p.m., police were called to a business on Main Street. Police arrived and found a sticky note on the business’s window upon which was written “[Redacted] Trump.”

The note-writer, the officer noted, referred to himself or herself as the “Alt-right” on the same note.

On another business, officers spotted another note, and with further investigation found about 10 to 15 notes attached to various local businesses. The notes were not limited to the statement of the first note, but instead included such statements as: “Justice for Muslims, Avenge Cuille,” “Make Racists afraid again” and “Protect LGBTQ rights.”

Pictures were taken and the specifics on location were recorded.

(Post-it notes, as they are labeled by the manufacturer, 3M, are based in the 1968 creation by a 3M researcher who was trying to come up with an especially strong adhesive. In one experiment it was a failure, and the adhesive was very easy to peel away. A colleague of the original researcher, in 1974, recalled the adhesive and thought of it as a way to construct on-the-fly bookmarks for use by his church choir. It worked well in this application. In 1980 the product, after some refinement, was brought to market. The original yellow color was due to 3M having a large quantity of scrap yellow paper.)

People and cars

It was 1:19 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 13 when an officer on patrol came upon the scene of an accident where a car had run into a pole on Tyler Street.

The officer got out and checked and nobody was around. He spoke with some people nearby who described the man who had been driving — noting he wore a red shirt — then got out of the car and ran off after the pole interrupted his transit. The officer thought he saw someone who matched the description crossing a nearby parking lot. He shouted to him but the man kept moving and was soon out of sight.

The officer turned his attention to the car and was soon joined by other officers. The license plate for the car was called in and officers got the name of the registered owner. Searching the car, police found the paperwork for the car, confirming the registered owner, and a wallet, in it a driver’s license, with the same name upon it.

And it was right about then that two men walked up. One of the men said it was his car, that he had just gotten a text that his car had been in an accident. The officer asked who sent the text and the man said he didn’t know, that his phone was dead and had no battery.

Meanwhile the initially responding officer spoke with the witnesses again, who said the man who just walked up could be the same man they saw leaving the accident site earlier. Attention returned to that man.

He continued to speak with officers, telling them he had been drinking at a friend’s house when he got word about his car being in an accident.

Meanwhile an officer spoke with the second man who arrived with the car owner. He told police he was the man’s roommate, that the man came home, changed clothes, then went back out to check on the car. He wasn’t sure what his roommate was wearing when he first came home, the man told the officer.

Officers were wrapping up at the scene when one found a phone battery in the car. The car owner asked if he could get some things out of the car and the police told him he could not, that the car was in a dangerous place. At this point the man got angry and, as the officer recorded it, “Got in my face,” cursing and otherwise acting out. The officer noted the man’s “odor of intoxicants” along with bloodshot and watery eyes.

Officers told the man to quiet down. The man, 23, responded by getting louder, and he was put in handcuffs, arrested for disorderly conduct and public intoxication. He was taken to jail.

Trying prying

Police were called to an apartment Sunday, Aug. 13 at 9:54 a.m. after an apparent burglary attempt was interrupted. They were met at the apartment by a man who lived there, the same person who had called police.

He told them he was at home when he heard a sound. He checked on the sound and found it was coming from his back door, where a man was prying on the door using a crowbar. A second man, whom he recognized, was standing behind the prying man.

He told the officer he knocked on the window and, having done so, the two men jumped over the back porch rail and ran toward the street, both getting in a Honda and driving off. He gave police the car’s license number.

His roommate, he told the officer, had recently posted on social media that he would be out of town Sunday.

Police were able to get fingerprints from the door. The Honda was found, parked near another apartment, but police were “unable to make contact with the occupants,” the report stated.