Snarky Media Report

ABC Director Bud Roberts made an appearance on THV11 and tried to claim credit for a Benton police undercover operation that found four area retailers that sold alcohol to a minor. The Benton Police Department recently carried out an undercover operation that resulted in the issuance of four citations to Benton area businesses for selling alcohol to a minor. Two of the violators were Applebee's and RibCrib.  Applebee's claimed that their server misread the ID and that the server was fired.  RibCrib's only comment was that it has happened before. No record of a recent violation was found on the ABC's website. ABC Director Bud Roberts rushed home to Benton to make an appearance on KTHV. Bud started off the interview stating that "our legislators make good laws and we should obey them". Funny that Bud only wants to obey some of the Arkansas laws himself.  Bud should practice what he preaches and turn himself in for violating our laws regarding illegal weapons (se

In a recent meeting, the ABC Director and board granted conditional approval to Moe's Southwest Grill at 2600 West Plains Crossing Drive in Rogers.   One of the items was that the manager, Josh Friddle, obtain a valid Arkansas [sic].    We can only assume that Judy Chwalinski, the ABC secretary that types up the decisions, made a typo and forgot to add "license'. Another thing the ABC Enforcement officer, Bud and the Board overlooked is that Friddle is an Arkansas native that according to his Facebook page has never lived in Ohio. Maybe someone at ABC will walk across the street to the DFA Driver Services office and check to see why Friddle does not have a valid Arkansas driver's license.  There may be a valid reason or maybe Friddle is hiding something.

Brandye is 34 years old, lives in the Oak Grove area of North Little Rock and has worked at ABC as an Administrative Specialist (a.k.a. secretary) since October 3, 2010. Just a few weeks after starting at ABC,  Brandye was divorced by her husband. But now she is engaged to her baby-to-be daddy. Yep, she has a bun in the oven. Brandye was born here in Little Rock and went to Mount Saint Mary's (Class of 1999). Back then she was Brandye Faye Tucker. Brandye likes liquor, scary movies, getting tattoos and growing her own food. Brandye has a lot of free time at work to post about wanting to drink beer and kill stuff.   Brandy also like to take selfies and share them. Let's hope that Brandye is laying off the booze (being knocked up and drinking is not a good idea). Little known facts about Brandye : Brandye's nickname is "goober". Brandye like to paint. We can't verify this but a source said that Brandye might once have worked at Cajun's Wharf as a server in t

In December 2009 the ABC purchased a new 2010 Dodge Charger for $16,378.00 (Capital Outlay).  In July 2010 state  vehicle use was raised in articles in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette regarding the number of state vehicles, the cost of acquiring and operating them, and how many were used for commuting. At that time, about 2,000, including law enforcement employees, were commuter vehicles.  CLICK TO VIEW PURCHASE DOCUMENT In addition to the news coverage, there were several law suits filed.  One, by Little Rock attorney Eugene Sayre, that wanted state vehicles may be used only for official business and seeks to force employees to pay money back to the state for nonofficial use of the vehicles. The second, by the state Republican Party, that wanted that personal use of state vehicles by state elected officials violates the salary-limiting provision of Amendment 70 of the state constitution. As a result of all the hoopla Gov. Mike Beebe issued an Executive Order on October 5, 2010 that  sta

Trent Anthony Vollmer is 44 years old and has worked for the ABC since 2007 as an Enforcement Officer. Trent is a transplant to Arkansas from Ohio and currently lives in Monticello.  Tent was a sailor on the  USS  John Hancock  (DD-981) and an officer with the T enth Judicial District Task Force before his employment with the ABC.  Trent got himself a much younger local girl (she graduated from high school in 2003) and they have one child. Trent is a Scorpio and likes adult humor, street fighting and hunting.  A little known fact about Trent is that one of his favorite movies is The Pregnancy Pact.

ABC DEPUTY DIRECTOR RICK CRISMAN Rick Crisman, Deputy Director and Education & Instruction Analyst for the DFA/ Alcoholic Beverage Control, has used information obtained in his positions as a police officer and with the ABC to develop a smartphone application that is being sold on the Apple App Store and Google Play. When Crisman was an officer with the Fayetteville Police Department he began collecting fake and altered id’s.  Using FPD stationary Crisman wrote to authorities in the states that were being used most frequently for fake id’s and asked for authentic “over 21” id’s.  Crisman scanned the real and fake id’s and using information from publications like the I.D. Checking Guide , he put information about each id’s security features and photos in a spreadsheet and transferred the document to his smartphone.  Crisman would pull up the document on his phone when he was checking id’s of bar patrons in the bars on Dickson Street. Fellow officers and bar staff saw the information

LARRY WALTHER A Freedom of Information Request was made to Larry Walther, the recently appointed Director of the Department of Finance and Administration, on March 27, 2013. The FOIA request sought information about the ABC's operations. When no response nor notification of delayed response was received within the mandatory three day period that is specified in the Arkansas Freedom of information Act  § 25-19-101 et seq., a follow up inquiry was sent on April 7, 2015. The  explaination from DFA was that the request was "overlooked". The next day one of the attorney's for ABC had his secretary send an email seeking a point of clarification regarding a requested item. A quick response suggested that the attorney or secretary ask the ABC Asst. Director what "Community Outreach Programs" meant as it was a listed fuction of his job on the DFA/ABC webpage. Readers of this blog will be glad to know that ABC advises that no funds whatsoever have been spent on Commu

Boyce Ashley Hamlet, the newly appointed ABC Enforcement Director is excited about his new job and the $65,000.00 salary.                                                 Boyce Hamlet is 40 years old and lives in Conway. Boyce is from Warren and graduated from Warren High School (Class of 1993). Boyce then attended the University of Arkansas at Monticello... and then the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff where he claims he was able to obtain a Bachelor's Degree in Criminal Justice. If true, that is an accomplishment as UAPB's graduation rate is only 24%.  UAPB is a historically black university that was founded in 1873 with the primary objective to educate black students to become teachers to teach in the state's black schools... and it's student body is predominately black... CLICK TO LEARN MORE ABOUT UAPB After college Boyce applied and was appointed as an Arkansas State Trooper in the summer of 2000. Boyce, not being blessed with a high IQ, was caught cheating.  Bo