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Arrest Warrant Issued for John Rogers

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Remember two weeks ago when we told you about the latest misadventure involving John Rogers, law enforcement and the courts?

We have more details.

The alleged serial fraudster didn’t make a mandatory appearance at a May 4 hearing in Little Rock Traffic Court.

An arrest warrant was issued for Rogers on May 10.

The once high-flying sports memorabilia and photo dealer shouldn’t be a hard guy to track down since he’s wearing an ankle bracelet from an earlier criminal court appearance in North Little Rock.

That bit of judicially mandated jewelry, which monitors his whereabouts, was bestowed on Rogers nearly six months ago.

It was tied to his release on $50,000 bond following a Dec. 3 arrest on charges of commercial burglary and theft of property.

Rogers allegedly stole three hard drives containing digital images valued at $364,167 from his former Sport Cards Plus offices back in August.

Two of those hard drives, purchased last year by the court-appointed receiver of Sports Card Plus et al, were recovered from Rogers during his arrest by North Little Rock Police.

At last check, that felony case in North Little Rock District Court was still in prosecutorial limbo referred to as the “file decision stage.”

And then of course there’s the ongoing, more-than-two-years-and-counting federal investigation of Rogers for bank fraud, counterfeit sports memorabilia and more.

Locally, Pulaski County Circuit Court is home to a string of civil cases with total creditor-investor claims of $50 million against him and/or his various business entities.

Alleged fraud is a common theme among many of the Rogers lawsuits.

You might recall his problems with Little Rock Traffic Court stem from an ill-fated, mid-afternoon drive in the Capitol View-Stifft Station neighborhood. Rogers was ticketed on March 29 for cruising the wrong way on Brown Street.

That traffic stop led to the discovery that Rogers was operating a motor vehicle with a suspended driver’s license.

Still don’t know why Rogers driver’s license was suspended. That’s something of a state secret.

However, we’re told that Rogers hasn’t had a license for awhile.

We’re also told that’s why he had a passport with him when he was arrested in North Little Rock: as a form of identification.

If all of that is so, Rogers was lucky he didn’t get a ticket for driving on a suspended license from the NLR po-po when he was arrested in December.

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