By Ray King
A mother and her son were arrested Sunday after the son led police and sheriff’s deputies on a high-speed chase and the mother attempted to interfere in his arrest.
Chauncen Williams, 23, was driving a black Chevrolet that police had been involved in a chase earlier but lost sight of the vehicle when Detective Charles Clark saw it run a stop sign at Harding Avenue and Commerce Road.
Deputy Prosecutor Caleb Conrad described what Clark reported in a probable cause affidavit.
The driver of the car, later identified as Williams resisted and fought Clark and his K-9 Brandy and then other officers while refusing to put his hands behind his back. While police were forcefully handcuffing Williams, a female later identified as Lacrystal Poindexter, 38, got out of a red Cadillac with a phone in her hand and said officers were beating her baby and she had it on video. A minor child was also in the vehicle.
Sheriff’s Lt. Kaylon McDaniel was also involved in the pursuit and Conrad told the court what McDaniel reported.
Clark reported that officers found a loaded handgun in the car Williams was driving and a loaded handgun under the seat of the car Poindexter was driving.
On Monday, Pine Bluff District Judge John Kearney set a $7,500 bond for Williams after ruling prosecutors have probable cause to charge him with felony fleeing. A $2,500 bond was set for Poindexter on probable cause of endangering the welfare of a minor. Both said they would hire their own attorney.
