Snarky Media Report

The Arkansas State Police has confirmed that Trooper Lincoln Smith from Troop E (based in Pine Bluff) was fired on April 11th for illegal conduct.    False reports of his arrest went viral on social media.   As the ASP criminal investigation is on-going, they will not release any further details of his criminal actions.   As the termination letter states, Smith admitted to criminal conduct and was immediately fired.  Smith was hired by the ASP on October 2023. Smith was employed by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission as a Game Warden prior to his hiring by the ASP.   Records obtained from CLEST do not indicate that the ASP requested decertification.     Jacksonville 911 was contacted about Smith and they advised he last worked for them in 2022.   At the time of publication, Smith's Facebook page is still open and up.    Stay tuned for updates.  

Lela Chism, failed "Democratic" candidate and CLR payroll clerk Lela Chism, a failed candidate for the Saline County  Quorum Court and a payroll clerk is being investigated by the Arkansas Ethics Commission for campaign finance law violations. A complaint was filed after we found that Chism had violated the law.   Chism was only able to get one resident of Saline County to make a campaign contribution in her failed campaign for office. Chism received most all her campaign contributions from a political action committee and one of its officers and from the Saline County Democratic Party (guess they didn't know she was a Magamole).   Chism, a resident of Saline County has been employed by the city of Little Rock since 2017. Chism is messy. Court records reveal that Chism defaulted on credit card payments and her debtors obtained default judgments against her.   Chism paid off the 2023 judgment amount of $3,500.14 in March of 2024.     The 2024 judgment in th...

  A little before 1:00 p.m. on Monday March 31st, 87 year old Donald Goens pulled into the Kinder parking lot on the western side of Don Roberts Elementary School at 16601 Lamarche Drive. Kinder parking lot at Don Roberts Elementary School After parking in the lot, Goens called his daughter, Paula Caruthers, and had a brief conversation. He had been to a doctor's appointment earlier, in the day and must have received some bad news. By the time his daughter and her husband, Scott,  arrived at the school at 12:56 p.m., Goens had already gotten out of his vehicle and shot himself in the head.  Goens lived a short distance from the school. The police report indicates that Scott Caruthers called LRPD to report the suicide in the school parking lot at 1:05 p.m. The report states that it was a "horrific scene". At 1:59 p.m., almost an hour after Goens shot and killed himself in a parking lot at the school, the school sent out a text message to parents. They stated that an incide...