Snarky Media Report

Back on June 12 th , we reported that the ABC refused to provide information about two ABC permit holders that according to statements made by ABC attorney Milton Lueken, were issued permits in violation of ABC regulations.  As of this date the ABC and DFA have refused to respond to any requests regarding Lueken’s statement and these two questionable permits. This information was “leaked” by Lueken in an administrative hearing regarding Louis A. Sheppard’s application for an ABC permit. Pay particular attention the word application . That word will be important later in this story. Louis Sheppard made an application for an ABC permit back in October 2011. Sheppard’s application for a permit was conditionally approved by the ABC Board.  It is important to note that the application for his permit was conditionally approved, there was no permit issued. ABC Regulation 1.35 requires that any conditions attached to the granting of a permit be met within 12 months or the application will be c

We posted on June 23rd that when Hamlet worked as an investigator for the Faulkner County Prosecuting Attorney, he left a pistol issued to him in a Faulkner County Sheriff's Department patrol car assigned to him, and it was allegedly stolen out of the patrol car sometime in April 2014 while parked at his residence.  Hang on to your hat, because that is not the first time a weapon was taken from a vehicle parked at Hamlet's residence. On November 1, 2011, Hamlet reported to the Conway Police Department that a Mossberg 12 gauge shotgun had been taken from his Chevorlet Avalanche. Hamlet did not know when it had been taken but thought it was sometime the previous week. CLICK TO VIEW NOVEMBER 2011 POLICE REPORT Only an idiot would leave a gun in a car parked in front of their home, or anywhere else.   Hamlet 's home has a two car garage... If he wants to leave weapons in his vehicles why not park them in the garage? Is Boyce a hoarder and his garage is full of crap and there is

Prior to landing the position as the Administrator of ABC Enforcement, Hamlet was an investigator for the 20th Judicial District Prosecuting Attorney's Office in Conway.  On April 16, 2014 Hamlet filed a report with the Conway Police Department to report the theft of a Glock .45 caliber pistol from a 2011 Chevrolet Impala (a vehicle owned by the Faulkner County Sheriff's Department) while parked at his residence almost a month before. The pistol was the property of the 20th Judicial District Prosecuting Attorney's Office. CLICK TO VIEW FULL POLICE REPORT It is interesting to note that Heath Edens, the Conway Police Office that took Hamlet's information, did not note in the report that he found that the vehicle had visible signs that someone had broken into it. OFFICER EDENS  Was the vehicle really broken into?  Was the pistol actually stolen or did Boyce misplace or leave it someplace and forget about it after too many beers? How he was ever able to get that position af

Startling and shocking information about the Little Rock Police Department was reported by the Arkansas Democrat Gazette and the Arkansas Times .  Only 174 or 34% of the 527 LRPD officers actually reside in Little Rock; Of the 160 black officers, 99 or 62% live in the city; Of the 354 white officers, only 75 or 21% live in the city. LRPD Chief Kenton Bucker has made public statements that his officers choose not to live in Little Rock because of the school systems and crime.   The city board of directors has tried twice to pass an ordinance to require police officers to reside in the city. Pulaski Cou nty Circuit Judge Reverend Wendell Griffen s peaking at th e Little Rock Board of Directors mee ting on June 16 th referred to LRPD Officers that were not residents of L i ttle Rock as " mercenaries".   WATCH VIDEO OF JUDGE GRIFFEN'S ADDRESSING THE LRBOD    

On May 13, 2015 we made a Freedom of Information request to obtain copies of cellphone records of the former ABC Deputy Director Rick Crisman.  We requested records from the last year of his employment. Crisman was allowed to resign in April 2015 during an internal investigation by DFA/ABC into criminal and ethical violations regarding his use of information obtained in his official capacity for his own gain or benefit. ABC has been less that cooperative in responding to the FOIA request and has only released a few months records.  But what they have released indicates a  lot of late night and early morning data usage by Crisman. What in the world was Crisman doing at those odd hours? Certainly it was not job related as the ABC has stated that Crisman never had any after hours work. Perhaps he was checking out his mobile application or surfing the web. Once the ABC has fully complied with the FOIA request and furnished the requested documents we will post an update.

SELETIA POWELL Seletia Lea (Smith) Powell is 30 years old and is an Enforcement Agent at ABC. Before coming to the ABC, Seletia was a police office in El Dorado. Seletia lives in Magnolia and went to high school there (Class of 2003). Seletia obtained a bachelor of science in criminal justice at Southern Arkansas University (Class of 2010).  SELETIA AND HER DAD LESTER SMITH That means Seletia is a Mulerider. Yee –haw! Seletia was married in June 2014.  And had a baby girl three months later. Did you notice how much Seletia’s husband resembles Dwight from the TV show The Office ? Seletia was a Smith before she became a Powell.  Seletia’s mom divorced and remarried when Seletia was a young child and she married a guy named Powell. While we can’t be sure that Seletia married her step-brother the whole last name thing is too much of a coincidence, but this is Arkansas after all. Seletia’s mom ran a failed campaign to be the Columbia County Circuit Clerk last year, but now she has time to h

In an administrative hearing held before the Arkansas Alcoholic Beverage Control Board on February 20, 2013 regarding an application made by Louis A. Sheppard, ABC attorney Milton Lueken stated that he had knowledge of two permit holders that maintained two residences in separate locals, one even being in another state. The hearing was about the Sheppard claiming duel residency. Charles Singleton, a former ABC director who represented a complainant  stated that those permits needed to be ”looked at”. Singleton knew that Arkansas laws did not allow duel residency, the permit holder has to reside where the permit is issued. Milton would be expected to know that too. A reasonable person would consider Singleton's utterance that the permit holders referenced by Lueken needed to be "looked at" as a complaint. CLICK TO VIEW EXCERPT FROM HEARING TRANSCRIPT On June 9, 2015 we sent a Freedom of Information request to the ABC for the following: 1. The files of the two ABC permit ho

CHIEF BUCKNER PONDERS ABOUT THE LOCATION OF HIS GUN Little Rock Police Chief Kenton Buckner says he was issued a written reprimand by the city manager after losing his city-issued handgun, a .40-caliber Glock 27. Buckner says he realized the gun was missing over Memorial Day weekend when he was moving from an apartment where he was living to a home he had purchased in an exclusive neighborhood off Chenal Valley Drive. The chief says he doesn't know whether the gun was stolen or misplaced but pointed out there were several movers, cable company workers and other strangers in his house during the move. During an interview Wednesday, Buckner called it a "regrettable moment." CLICK TO VIEW VIDEO OF INTERVIEW Buckner says the gun was valued at about $460 -- money the chief says he repaid the department. Buckner described the gun as a "back-up" weapon that he usually kept "close-by." "Because I don't know where it is or what happened , I can't b

MILTON LUEKEN Milton Raymond Lueken is 71 years old (DOB: 3/6/44) and has been an attorney for various state agencies in Arkansas since he passed the bar on August 18, 1969 (Attorney General’s Office [1969-73]; Office of Child Support Enforcement [1973-92] and Alcoholic Beverage Control [1992-present]. Lueken is a Little Rock native and attended Catholic High School (Class of 1962) and then the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (Class of 1966) and obtained a juris doctor from the University of Arkansas School of Law (Class of 1969). One of the cases Lueken was assigned to in his brief time at the AG’s office was the one that dealt with conditions at Arkansas Prisons that was the basis for the movie Brubaker . Lueken has been employed as a staff attorney by the ABC for over 20 years.  Lueken is a plain speaker who is not afraid to say exactly what is on his mind. Last year he stated that claims made about purposed changes in legislation concerning the sale of alcoholic beverages by