Craighead County

🚨 “You gone drop the charges or not?”

Jonesboro police say Charles Edward Beare went to a witness’s apartment after his brother was arrested in an alleged firearm theft and pressured the man to drop the charges. As the confrontation escalated, Beare allegedly told the witness to come around the corner to “shoot it out.”

Beare now faces a Class B felony carrying up to 20 years in prison. His bond was set at $50,000 cash or surety. The court noted he was on probation and had been arrested on firearm-possession charges three days before the alleged confrontation. [read more…]

JONESBORO, Ark. — William Craig Lanier, 22, was placed on 18 months of probation after entering a negotiated guilty plea to felony breaking or entering in a case involving two leaf blowers that police said were stolen from a truck bed. Lanier appeared Aug. 14 before Circuit Judge Randy Philhours, [read more…]

JONESBORO, Ark. — A Tyronza man pleaded guilty in a case in which Jonesboro police said he stalked his 20-year-old daughter and threatened to shoot people if she did not contact him. Robert L. McClain, 52, entered a negotiated guilty plea Aug. 14 in Craighead County Circuit Court to first-degree [read more…]

JONESBORO, Ark. — An Uber driver is accused of attacking a 65-year-old man who intervened after a woman spilled a drink inside the driver’s vehicle, police said. Stanford Wayne Wilkerson is charged with second-degree battery, a Class D felony. His bond was set at $35,000 cash or surety. Jonesboro police [read more…]

JONESBORO, Ark. — A man accused of pretending he had a gun while trying to enter a Jonesboro home later broke into the residence and stole an Xbox, police said. Michael J. Trotter is charged with criminal attempt to commit aggravated residential burglary and residential burglary, both Class B felonies. [read more…]

JONESBORO, Ark. — A woman faces a felony charge after police said traffic-camera footage showed her intentionally striking a man she was dating with a car before pursuing him in the vehicle and on foot. Anteunna Smith is charged with aggravated assault on a family or household member, a Class [read more…]