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THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 2011
VOL. 23 NO. 68
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Dittmeyer’s body found
20-year-old Portland woman had been missing since Friday; death being treated as ‘suspicious’ BY ERIK EISELE THE CONWAY DAILY SUN
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CONWAY — Police found the body of the missing 20-year-old Portland woman they’d been searching for since Saturday in a pond at the base of Cranmore early Wednesday. “It is with great sorrow that I tell you we located the body of Krista Ditt m e y e r, ” Krista Dittmeyer assistant attorney general Jane Young said at a late-afternoon press conference. “She was located in what is known in this area as Duck Pond.” Young spoke before a pack of television reporters from stations around the Northeast. She said she would be unwilling to answer any questions, but she did take a few without releasing many details. The Cranmore snowmaking pond where the body of Krista Dittmeyer was found Wednesday morning. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
Suspect still at large in armed robbery at Jonathon’s Seafood Nobody hurt; employee says robbery ‘felt like a lifetime but was less than a minute’ BY DAYMOND STEER THE CONWAY DAILY SUN
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Police search the area around Jonathon’s Seafood Tuesday night after a man with a handgun demanded money from an employee and then fled into the woods across the street. (JAMIE GEMMITI PHOTO)
CONWAY — Jonathon’s Seafood restaurant was robbed at gunpoint at about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Nobody was hurt. A waitress, who asked that her name not be used, was the employee who was held up. The robbery occurred a half hour before the restaurant was to close. She described the suspect as a white male perhaps 20 to 30 years old who is about 6 feet tall and approximately 130
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to 140 pounds. He was wearing a light blue sweatshirt, a gray hood, a half ski mask over the bottom of his face, and sunglasses. “All you could see was his nose,” said the waitress. The suspect fled with a small amount of money. As of 1:45 p.m. Wednesday, the suspect was still at large, according to Conway police chief Ed Wagner, who confirmed the suspect ran across the street into the woods. see ROBBERY page 16