Police arrested a Fort Smith man in connection with an aggravated robbery with a firearm that occurred Thursday.
Zion Sincere Releford was arrested Thursday on suspicion of felony aggravated robbery and misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia. He remained in custody Friday and is set to appear in Sebastian County District Court on Monday.
According to an arrest report, a Fort Smith man and woman told Fort Smith police Cpl. Andrew Adams that Releford and another man tried to rob them them at around 1 p.m. Thursday at an unspecified location.
The man and woman said Releford and another man initially pulled up beside them in a Volkswagen Jetta with two other occupants and demanded they give them money. The man and woman told Releford and the other man that they did not have any money, the report states.
The man who was with Releford produced a hand gun and continued to demand they give them money. Releford grabbed the gun from the man and pointed it at them while "acting like he was racking the slide," the report states.
The man and woman ran to a shop at North Greenwood Avenue and North I Street and called the police. They identified the vehicle to Adams when he arrived, who told detective Cpl. Joseph Triplett that the suspects were at the intersection of Lecta and Tilles avenues, the report states.
Triplett stopped the vehicle at the given intersection and arrested Releford. Officers located suspected marijuana on Releford and a metal marijuana grinder inside the vehicle, the report states.