Ladies of Northeast Arkansas will have chance to learn how to fight back on Saturday, thanks to a free women’s self-defense seminar by Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Jonesboro.
A social media post read “if you go to [Nettleton School] in Jonesboro ar y’all school will be getting shoot up tomorrow at 7:30 and I will be sitting outside the school waiting for doors to open … I will be wearing all black acting like a kid.”
A traffic stop around 10 a.m. on Saturday revealed drugs, a gun and cash.
A man was charged with second degree sexual assault Monday.
A man was charged with rape on Monday.
The man involved in the Philip Evans Parkway shooting this weekend was charged with 1st degree domestic battery on Monday.
Jonesboro police were dispatched to the Parker Rd/Woodsprings Road intersection Thursday around 6 p.m. in response to a domestic disturbance.
Jonesboro police are investigating a shooting that occurred around 3 a.m. Sunday morning at Philip Evans Parkway.
A man called the Walmart on Highland Drive and said he was “about to come to the store and start shooting people.”
The man said he was “trying to burn the building down with him in it to go to a better place.”