$1 Million Bond Set for Pocahontas 19-Year-Old Held for Allegedly Threatening Brookland School

BROOKLAND, Ark. — A young man accused of threatening Brookland School District was in court, and tears, for his probable cause hearing on Friday.

Logan Cody Jones, 19, of Pocahontas, appeared before Judge David Boling for a probable cause hearing on Sept. 27. He faces several charges including Making a Terroristic Threat (to a school), a Class A felony; Threatening to Commit Acts of Mass Violence on School Property, a Class C felony; Stalking, a Class C felony; Five counts of first-degree terroristic threatening, Class D felonies; and harassing communications, a Class A misdemeanor.

Judge David Boling followed the request by Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Katie Calaway, setting a $1 million cash or surety bond. Additional conditions of bail included a GPS ankle monitor, no weapons or firearms, no contact orders with all the victims, and being banned from Brookland Public School property.

At 10 a.m. on Sept. 25, the probable cause affidavit states that Detective Dustin Norwood of the Brookland Police Department was contacted by a school resource officer (SRO) and advised of a threat at Brookland High School. As Norwood was en route, the entire school district was put on lockdown.

The detective met with the SRO, who said a male subject had made threats to “shoot up” Brookland school, along with threats to kill one of the students at the school. Two victims were in the high school office and told police more. One of the alleged victims, a juvenile, said she was in a dating relationship with Jones for approximately nine months. She said Jones was a senior at Pocahontas High School, but he was 19 years old. She explained that the suspect became “toxic” and “controlling” and would accuse her of cheating on him, repeatedly calling and texting her to the point where she would block his number. When she would block him, she said he would generate a new phone number and continue to call and text from that new number. The alleged victim said during these exchanges, that he would call her names and even threaten her. Her mother, also listed as a victim in the affidavit, corroborated the description of events by the juvenile.

The young woman said that on or about Sept. 17, while she was at school, the suspect came and dropped off a “break-up” note, attaching it to her vehicle. In the days that followed, the alleged victim also ended the relationship with the suspect. But after this, the suspect allegedly called her between 300 and 400 times. The affidavit says he sent too many text messages to count.

On Sept. 24, the alleged victim said the suspect began texting her from a new number, attempting to get her to communicate with him. She explained she would not respond to the communications, which apparently enraged the suspect. The affidavit alleges he called her names such as “whore” and accused her of “already moving on.” She continued to not respond.

Then, the situation took an even more alarming turn. According to the affidavit, at about 1:45 p.m., the suspect stated he was outside of Brookland schools and began sending her photos of the Brookland Junior High School building and parking lot. At about 4:16 p.m., the suspect sent a text that said “Answer.” It was followed by another text saying “Or I’ll kill you.” After she didn’t respond, at 4:29 p.m., the suspect allegedly texted “Answer the fuc*ing phone or I’ll come shoot up your school,” followed by another text message saying, “And I’ll kill your fucking family.”

The detective reviewed the text messages and phone logs and reported they appeared exactly as the victim described.

The mother of the juvenile told police when she learned of the threats, she immediately came to the school and made them aware. She added that in the past week, she had filed an affidavit in Craighead County seeking an order of protection for her daughter. Even the suspect’s foster mother had suggested they obtain the order. That hearing was originally scheduled for Sept. 30.

As police worked at Brookland schools, the Pocahontas Police Department responded to Pocahontas Public Schools and took the suspect into custody. Police reported collecting evidence from the suspect at the time of his arrest, although the affidavit did not specify what.

Pocahontas investigators reported the suspect made incriminating statements to Pocahontas school officials regarding his communications with the juvenile. Detective Norwood wrote that the suspect told school officials he did threaten the alleged victim along with Brookland School District. The suspect went on to allegedly confess to using the application called ‘TextNow’ to change his phone number. He had since deleted the application.

The Pocahontas Police Department applied for a search warrant for the phone of the suspect. Officers reportedly confirmed the threats were made to both the Brookland schools and the juvenile victim. Officers also confirmed that the suspect had called the victim 250 times and three times by TextFree audio.

Jones appeared in Craighead County District Court on Friday, Sept. 27. He appeared to be crying during the entire probable cause hearing. At several points, including when the $1 million bond was mentioned, he buried his face into his hands.

The suspect was reportedly screened for homicidal or suicidal tendencies. A relative of Jones commented to the court that he had recently become more volatile after a prescription for an anti-depressant was issued.

Detective Dustin Norwood told NEA Report on Friday the case was still under investigation and more charges could be filed.

On the charges that have already been filed, Jones faces serious potential prison time if convicted: up to 30 years for the Class A felony, up to 6 years on each of the five Class D felonies, up to 10 years on both of the Class C felonies and up to 1 year on the misdemeanor. If served consecutively, it could mean 81 years of incarceration.

All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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