WEST MEMPHIS – Police have arrested two people for allegedly using a debit card belonging to a former Arkansas town mayor who has been missing for nearly a week.

Mario Dawson, 21, and his wife, Jasmine Dawson, 20, were arrested Thursday night at a West Memphis apartment complex, police said. They were held Friday at the Crittenden County jail but had not yet been formally charged. The two have not yet hired attorneys, jailers said.

Officials said the two used a debit card owned by former Waldron Mayor Troy Anderson, 75. Anderson, who now lives in Fort Smith, was reported missing June 27 and likely hasn’t been seen since June 21.

“Through the reliable information, we tracked them to West Memphis, Ark., (and) made contact with the West Memphis Police Department,” Fort Smith police Cpl. Ronald Scamardo told television station KFSM. “In cooperation with them, (we) located them at the location and they made the arrest.”

Scamardo said police still are handling Anderson’s disappearance as a missing person investigation. Fort Smith police planned to travel Friday to West Memphis to interview the two arrested.

Officers have largely been quiet about their investigation. Police executed a search warrant on Anderson’s apartment and recovered areas of carpet that look as if bleach was poured on them, officers told the Times Record newspaper of Fort Smith. The carpet pieces have been sent to the state Crime Laboratory in Little Rock for analysis.

While there were no signs of a struggle in the apartment, authorities said the sheets from Anderson’s bed were missing and leaves and twigs were found on the bedroom floor near an unlocked window.

Police released video this week of a man using Anderson’s debit card at a Price Cutter store in Fort Smith. They say the card had been used at several stores in Fort Smith and Little Rock. Officers recovered Anderson’s pickup truck outside Little Rock in rural Pulaski County – about 150 miles away from Fort Smith.

Anderson resigned as mayor of Waldron, a town of 3,500 in western Arkansas, in 2006 after pleading no contest to misdemeanor charges of abuse of office and indecent exposure. An Arkansas State Police investigation uncovered allegations that Anderson offered women city water service in exchange for sex.