Article: LR businessman pleads guilty to bank fraud.

BRYAN PITTS, 45, PLEADED guilty to one felony count of bank fraud last week in U.S. District Court in Little Rock.

After the plea, a routine drug test by the U.S. marshal's office found cocaine in his system, and he was whisked back into U.S. District Judge James Moody's court and ordered held until March 13, according to U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins.

Pitts had denied being under the influence of any substance, but the results of the drug test raise the question of whether he was competent when he made his plea.

Another hearing will be held Monday in which he'll be asked whether it is still his intention to plead guilty, Cummins said. The original ...

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