FORT SMITH JUDGE-ELECT INVOLVED IN SHENANIGANS AT SEEDY LITTLE ROCK HOTEL - POLICE FILE SHOWS DISCREPANCY IN STATEMENTS OF SUSPECTS AND VERY LITTLE DETECTIVE WORK
JUDGE -ELECT JIM O'HERN AND BRANDI GIBSON , A/K/A BRANDI CANNON On December 2nd, District Judge-elect James Edward O'Hern of Fort Smith and a female he described as his on and off " girlfriend " of several months were in Little Rock at the sketchy Extended Stay on Kanis Road. Hotel management was inspecti ng rooms (apparently that 's a thing at seedy motels/hotels) and when they entered O'Hern's room th ey smell cigarette smoke and saw a large massage table. Tammy Coleman, the general manager, and Rebecca Mills , the assistant general manager, notic ed a coke can with ashes on it that had apparently been used as an ash tray. Mill s notice d ashes on a nightstand and opened the drawer. She found a cigarette butt and small baggie with some white powder in it and a mirro r with w hite residue on it. T hey also no tice d a wallet with cash sticking out of it. Both C ol eman and Mills quickly left the room and when they returned to the fron t desk