was a story on the Arkansas Carry board this morning, this fella in the story managed Black Oak Arkansas at one time.
By Bill Lawson / Staff Writer / blawson@maumellemonitor.com
Friday, September 4, 2009 9:03 AM CDT
North Little Rock police place Norman Millard “Butch” Stone Jr. of Maumelle under arrest Monday evening on the Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market parking lot after Maumelle police stopped him based upon a broadcast alert about a car involved in a gun incident at the Wal-Mart Supercenter on Maumelle Boulevard. (Bill Lawson)
Maumelle Family Fest promoter Norman Millard “Butch” Stone Jr., 63, of Maumelle was arrested Monday night in Maumelle by North Little Rock police after an alleged road rage incident involving a gun on Maumelle Boulevard that continued onto the Wal-Mart Supercenter on Maumelle Boulevard.
North Little Rock police said Stone was charged with four counts of aggravated assault.
Stone was handcuffed and placed in the back of a North Little Rock patrol car and the handgun he was carrying was confiscated as evidence.
Maumelle police Chief Sam Williams confirmed that Maumelle police stopped Stone in the Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market parking lot about 7 p.m. Monday night after North Little Rock Police broadcast an alert for a car fitting description of Jones’ car. The car allegedly had been involved in a gun incident at the Wal-Mart Supercenter on Maumelle Boulevard a few minutes earlier.
Four Maumelle patrol units and three North Little Rock patrol cars converged on the parking lot.
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Williams confirmed that Stone had a black 9 mm Smith & Wesson semi-automatic pistol in his car at the time he was stopped. He said Stone has a concealed-carry permit from the Arkansas State Police to carry the weapon but North Little Rock police officers arrested him based on the complaints from patrons at Wal-Mart about showing a gun.
The North Little Rock police report said three men were in a car westbound on Maumelle Boulevard when they encountered Stone’s black Chrysler PT Cruiser traveling below the speed limit in the outside lane.
The driver of the second car, Kenton David Byrd, 25, of 7333 River Pointe Drive in Maumelle, told police he “tailgated” Stone in an attempt to get him to pull over to the inside lane. He said a passenger in Stone’s vehicle, Ronald G. Stone of Maumelle stuck his arm out of the window and waived them around.
The three people in the car, Byrd, David Eric Adams, 20, of 66 Stoneledge Drive in Maumelle and Racheal Lowry, 23 of 7333 River Pointe Drive in Maumelle all said as they pulled alongside Stone’s vehicle, “The driver leaned over the front seat passenger and pointed a black pistol out of the front passenger side window at them.”
Byrd told police he quickly pulled into the Wal-Mart Supercenter parking lot on Maumelle Boulevard and Stone followed him in. He told police Stone and his passengers all exited their vehicle and came up to his.
Byrd said he got out to speak with Stone about “the problem.” He said Stone pointed the gun at him again.
Officer Brandon Bennett said in his report that all passengers in Byrd’s vehicle “recounted these events just as Byrd explained them.”
They said Stone then “pushed Byrd back into his vehicle while he held the gun on him.”
The report said Stone and his passengers yelled obscenities at them as they left in their vehicle.
Bennett also said in his report, “When told why he was being arrested, Stone spontaneously stated that he pointed the gun at them because he felt he was in danger and that he thought they had a gun.”
Bennett said he searched all victims and their vehicle and did not find a weapon.
The gun contained a clip with 16 9-mm Luger rounds, according to the report.
Stone, of 200 Millwood Circle, was accompanied in the vehicle by Justine M. Stone, 30, of the same address in Maumelle and by James D. Stone, 30, of Mandeville, La.
Stone, who has produced the Maumelle Family Fest since its inception, recently signed a multi-year contract with the city to conduct the festivals for several years. He has promoted concerts in Little Rock and elsewhere and managed several big-name musical groups, including a group of teenagers from Northeast Arkansas known as KnowBody Else. They later changed their name to Black Oak Arkansas. The group became a top-seller in the 1970s with its rendition of the Fats Domino 1950s hit, “Jim Dandy” that featured the group’s lead singer Jim Mangrum, of Black Oak, a small community north of Jonesboro.
Calls to Stone were not returned before press time.
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