Jonesboro, AR — (JonesboroRightNow.com) — March 6, 2025 — A Jonesboro man is being held on a $100,000 bond after being charged with four counts of interference with custody.
Judge David Boling found probable cause on Wednesday to charge 34-year-old David Waldrop with four counts of interference with custody, a Class C felony. This carries a fine of up to $10,000 and/or three to 10 years in prison.
On Feb. 26, Jonesboro police officers responded to a home on Medallion Drive about a missing child. The child’s mother told officers she noticed her son was missing when she noticed a message from her phone from Waldrop.
Waldrop is the child’s biological father but does not live at the home or have legal rights to him, according to the probable cause affidavit.
Waldrop’s messages reportedly told the mother that he’d entered her home in the night and took her son, and that if she did not call police, he would be returned Sunday afternoon. They added that if the mother did contact police, Waldrop would “take the child so far away that it would take years to find them,” the affidavit said.
Waldrop and the child were located in Tennessee by U.S. Marshals, in which Waldrop was arrested and the child returned to his mother. Waldrop was arrested March 4 at 12:30 p.m., according to online jail records.
According to the probable cause affidavit, this follows a similar incident on Feb. 23, in which Waldrop took three of the mother’s children. During this incident, when Waldrop learned the mother contacted police, he dropped the children off at a gas station with a family member to be returned to their mother, the affidavit said.
Waldrop was given a $100,000 cash or surety bond and a court date of April 24. He’s being held in the Craighead County Detention Center.
