Snarky Media Report

LRPD OFFICERS FALLS & WATSON - Photos courtesy of the Bordeaux/Racop Transparency Project At approximately 3:53 a.m. on Sunday December 16th, two LRPD SUV's were observed drifting in the parking lot of 10 Fitness at University and Col. Glenn. Their hijinks was caught on video by a Little Rock citizen. LRPD has identified the two officers as Quinton Falls and Brooke Watson. These buffons violated LRPD Rules and Regulations. They also violated some LRPD General Orders as well.  We will post updates as information becomes available.

Read the story on our Bad Arkansas Department of Human Services blog by clicking here.

We posted back on November 9th that last term mayor Mark Stodola was seeking a bump in salary during his last weeks in office to reap higher retirement benefits. You can read that post by clicking here . Thanks to the Arkansas Times and Max Brantley's Arkansas blog, we learned late yesterday that a proposed ordinance is to be voted on at tonight's reconvened board meeting that would do just what we said and more.   In addition to the salary bump during Stodola's last weeks in office, if he kicks the bucket before his ailing wife, she will get widows benefits. We have sent a request for records about the proposed ordinance and which board members have proposed it. You do not want to miss watching the live stream of the reconvened board meeting on the city's YouTube channel tonight.  It should prove painful for last term mayor Stodola. By the way, chicken-shit last term mayor Stodola never followed up on that email request for all the times our publisher has been wrong. 

DIRTY DEA AGENT NATHAN KOEN Drug Enforcement Agent Nathan Koen was arrested on December 4, 2018 and charged with federal bribery and drug conspiracy charges following allegations that he accepted payment from a drug dealer in exchange for information. U.S. Attorney Cody Hiland said Nathan Koen was arrested Tuesday on a federal complaint that alleged he accepted bribes and helped a drug dealer’s criminal activities for two years. Koen was detained following an appearance before a U.S. magistrate judge. Apparently he did not stow away any of that bribery cash for a rainy day or an emergency like obtaining an attorney if he got caught. Koen had worked at the DEA’s Little Rock office since September 2016.  If convicted, he faces up to 15 years in prison for the bribery count and up to life in prison for the conspiracy count. Oddly, there is no mention of this major arrest on the website of the U.S. Attorney's office for the Eastern District of Arkansas. Hiland is a fine one to be