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BOND SET FOR THREE PINE BLUFF MEN OVER DRUG-RELATED CHARGES

By Ray King/OF THE COMMERCIAL STAFF
Friday, March 13, 2009 10:08 PM CDT

Three Pine Bluff men arrested in two separate incidents Thursday will have to post bonds to be released from the county detention center while prosecutors prepare drug related charges against them.

During court hearings Friday, Circuit Judge Rob Wyatt Jr., ruled prosecutors had probable cause to charge Jeremiah Robinson, 20, and Roderick Dolls, 23, with possession of marijuana with intent to deliver, possession of drug paraphernalia, and fleeing; and Carl McBride, 25, with possession of ecstasy with intent to deliver, and simultaneous possession of drugs and firearms.

Deputy Prosecutor Cymber Gieringer said Robinson and Dolls were arrested Thursday after vice and narcotics officers Brett Talley and John Hughes checked a car they were in and determined that the license plate was fictitious.

Gieringer said the investigators saw the white Mazda turn south from Eighth Avenue and Ohio Street and a check of the license plate showed it should have been on a Toyota.

In an affidavit, Talley reported that they tried to stop the car on Indiana Street and pursued it until the car pulled in behind a house at Martin and Kentucky streets, where two men jumped out and ran.

Gieringer said Talley caught Dolls, and Robinson was arrested a short time later, and investigators recovered digital scales and three plastic bags containing a total of 7.3 grams of marijuana in the vehicle.

Wyatt set bond for Dolls and Robinson at $50,000 each after Gieringer said both men were out on bonds because of pending cases.

She said Dolls has two pending drug related cases, while Robinson’s pending cases include aggravated robbery, rape, theft of property and felony fleeing.

The judge told both men he anticipated that prosecutors would file motions to revoke the bonds in the pending cases.

In the case of McBride, Gieringer said sheriff’s Cpl. Thaddeus Arnold stopped a car driven by McBride Thursday at Martin Avenue and Main Street and arrested him on an outstanding warrant for failure to appear for a court hearing in 2007.

Gieringer said when Arnold patted down McBride for weapons, he felt a bulge in McBride’s jacket and recovered a bag containing 20 multi-colored pills that field tested positive for MDMA, the active ingredient in ecstasy.

When the vehicle was searched, Gieringer said deputies located a .45-caliber Ruger handgun that was loaded, but “did not come back stolen.”

Wyatt set a $25,000 bond for McBride, but told him that he would be held without bond on the outstanding warrant until he could see Judge Jodi Dennis, who issued the warrant.

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