Marine Patrol assists in arrests

Two area men were arrested Saturday night in Garland County after allegedly stealing a local man’s boat, and items from another boat owned by a Little Rock man, on Lake Hamilton.
Timothy Frey Madison, 23, who lists an address of 240 Nickens St. in Hot Springs, and Frank Allen Madison, 23, of Bismarck, were both taken into custody shortly after 7 p.m. and charged with two felony counts of theft by receiving, one punishable by up to 20 years in prison, and one by up to six years in prison.

Frank Madison, who was also wanted on a warrant for three counts of failure to appear, was being held on $15,000 bond, while Timothy Madison, who is on probation from a felony conviction earlier this year, was being held on $7,500 bond.
Both are set to appear Sept. 6 in Hot Springs District Court.

According to Garland County Sheriff’s Department reports, deputies John Schroeder and Joshua Cannon received a call shortly before 6:30 p.m. to advise a local resident, 50, who lives on Bayside Road, that his 2010 Bennington party barge was illegally docked in the 100 block of Woodstock Drive, located off Bayside Road.
The deputies made contact with the resident, who stated his boat should be in a locked garage boat shed at his residence. The resident and deputies looked and discovered the boat was missing and the stall door was “torn up.”

The deputies went to the area where the boat had reportedly been docked on Woodstock and spoke to a resident, 55, who stated he had seen two unknown white males who had driven the boat away after walking up on his property.

Marine patrol deputies later located the stolen boat and the two suspects, identified as Frank and Timothy Madison, in the 200 block of Overview Circle, off Woodstock, and detained them until Schroeder and Cannon arrived and took them both into custody without incident.

The boat was later returned to its owner. A CD player and radio were located in the boat which were found to have been stolen from a boat at a lake house on Timberlake Drive in Royal.

The homeowner, 62, who lives in Little Rock, later positively identified the stolen items, resulting in the second theft by receiving charge against the suspects.