Today’s installment of Real World Police take us to Cotter, Arkansas where an officer has just attempted a traffic stop only to have the vehicle take off on him. Speeds during the pursuit were reported as hitting 140+ miles per hour and the officer’s siren bizarrely stopped working mid-pursuit. Fortunately for Sergeant Joel Richardson, the car's occupants caught themselves by wrecking their car... and taking off into the woods. Watch as Chase and Chad Pollard, both on felony probation out of Crosby, Texas, get arrested in The Natural State. The twins were each sentenced to two 30-day jail terms which ran concurrently, and to three years in jail, to be suspended upon successful completion of their probation. They were also each assessed fines and fees of $2,670. Select court records from the twins' prosecution are shown on screen at the end of the video.
Note: The original audio was painfully loud & distorted. This is a huge improvement.
A less-expected update: Sergeant Joel Richardson resigned from the Cotter Police Department on Tuesday, August 20, 2019 following a verbal confrontation with deputies from the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office.
In an incident report filed the preceding Saturday (8/17) Deputy Austin Morrison wrote that he arrived at Combs Avenue in Cotter at 9:47 p.m. on 8/17 in response to two calls about fireworks being discharged in the area. Upon arrival, the deputy reported that he found a large group of people standing outside, with music coming from a side-by-side utility vehicle.
While speaking to the group about fireworks and the noise, Morrison alleged that Richardson identified himself as a sergeant with the Cotter Police Department. (Richardson was one of the people in the group.) Morrison wrote that Richardson had his portable police radio on and monitoring dispatch. Richardson told Morrison that there were no noise ordinances for commercial properties inside Cotter city limits, and that “they had every right to play loud music there because it is commercial property.”
Morrison took notice of the fact that Richardson had a baseball bat next to him, then advised the group to keep the noise down and left the property to meet with his supervisor, Sgt. Doug Meurer.
Sgt. Meurer wrote in a supplemental report that after discussing the situation, both officers returned to the property. On their return, the officers noticed no loud music being played and the side-by-side was no longer at the scene.
Meurer's report continues with the following: “I asked how everyone was doing and asked if there had been a misunderstanding about loud music. Immediately a male stood up holding a baseball bat and told me that we were harassing them and that we needed to leave them alone.” The male was Richardson.
Meurer states that he explained to the property owner that while the Sheriff’s Office doesn't enforce city ordinances, it does enforce state laws and that if they received complaints they could issue a disorderly conduct citation.
“At that time, Joel, who was still holding the baseball bat (and) tossing it between his hands back and forth, started arguing with me stating that I could not write a ticket for disorderly conduct on commercial property in the city limits. I informed him that Cotter did not have an officer working, so when we are covering calls, we are going to play by my rules, and that they were the same set of rules for anywhere else in the county,” Meurer wrote in his report. "While speaking with Joel, I noticed a portable radio that was monitoring the Sheriff's Office channel laying on the bench where they were gathered."
As Meurer and Morrison left the area, Richardson "began speaking in an argumentative manner."
The City of Cotter reportedly does have an ordinance in place addressing public nuisances inside the city limits, and that ordinance makes no distinction between residential and commercial properties. It specifically mentions "loud music" as being a violation.
Shifting from factual reporting to opinion, that doesn't sound resignation-worthy. Either something else happened, or the report's language is an exceptionally-toned-down recitation of events. I am looking into this and will let you know what I find.
Music: "Enjoy Yourself" by Steven O'Brien
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