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James Jones Arrested In Fatal Hit And Run

James Jones is a man from Arkansas who hit a cyclist while driving and according to him the victim flew into the bed of his pick up truck. According to police reports they received a phone call that someone found a severed leg beside a road. The police would investigate and it would lead them back to James Jones who told them he had no idea how the body got into the bed of his pick up truck. The police theory is that James Jones struck the cyclist at such a high speed that the victim ended up in the truck however they also believe that Jones is fully aware of what took place. Surveillance cameras in the area show the cyclist being hit and James Jones has been charged with manslaughter and leaving the scene of an accident

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Fort Smith Police have arrested a man who they say struck a cyclist with his pickup truck, killing the victim, and fled the scene with their body in the back of his vehicle.

According to Aric Mitchell with the Fort Smith Police Department, at 8:00 p.m. Friday (Feb. 18), 42-year-old James Ray Jones hit the cyclist near Grand Avenue between N 14th and N 16th Streets.

Jones was arrested after police were alerted about a human body part located at the scene. Investigators reviewed nearby surveillance footage and named Jones as the suspect.

Police located Jones at his home, where the truck he allegedly struck the cyclist in was parked behind his house. Mitchell says the victim’s body was still in Jones’ truck.

The identification of the victim has not been released.

Jones faces multiple charges, including manslaughter and leaving the scene of a crash.

He has been booked into the Sebastian County Detention Center.

https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/crime/fort-smith-police-hit-and-run-arrest-body-found-in-pickup-truck/527-46d31542-a011-4b23-9ce7-7e8d5f95fad1

Noel Bonilla-Jimenez Charged With Rape Of 7 Year Old

Noel Bonilla-Jimenez is a teenager from Arkansas who filmed himself raping a seven year old child and sharing the images over Instagram. According to police Noel Bonilla-Jimenez was arrested on January 27, 2022 and charged with two counts of sexual assault involving a victim under the age of 14, one count of using a computer to exploit a child and two counts of possessing, distributing and viewing child pornography. Apparently Noel Bonilla-Jimenez told the arresting officers that he was not attracted to children however he was curious. It seems when Noel Bonilla-Jimenez shared the files on Instagram it alerted officials to the barbaric crime. Noel Bonilla-Jimenez remains behind bars in Arkansas praying that other inmates do not find out what crimes he has been charged with

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A Rogers man is accused of raping a boy and using social media to send videos of the act.

Noel Bonilla-Jimenez, 18, is charged with rape.

He was arrested Saturday in connection with two counts of rape, but prosecutors filed only one count Monday against him.

Bonilla-Jimenez was also arrested in connection with two counts of possessing, distributing and viewing of matter depicting sexually explicit conduct involving a child and computer exploitation of a child. Prosecutors have not filed formal charges in that arrest.

Rogers police investigated a report involving a video showing a young girl engaged in a sex act with a person believed to be a man, according to a probable cause affidavit. The person used Instagram and Snapchat to send the video to another person, the affidavit states.

Police were able to trace the video to Bonilla-Jimenez’s cellphone, according to the affidavit.

Police also received an anonymous report in November identifying Bonilla-Jimenez as a Snapchat user who sent videos of himself engaged in sex acts with 5- or 6-year-old children, according to the affidavit.

A woman told police Bonilla-Jimenez befriended her and they exchanged Snapchat contact information, according to the affidavit. She told police she observed his account and found several videos of him having sex with adult females and videos of a boy engaged in a sex act with a man, according to the affidavit. The woman said she saved the video to give to law enforcement, according to the affidavit.

Police believe the boy is between 7 and 9 years old and identified Bonilla-Jimenez as the man in the video, according to the affidavit.

Police were able to identify the 8-year-old boy, referred to as John Doe-8 in court documents. Police showed the boy’s mother a screen clipping of her son, and she reported her son was 7 years old at the time, according to the affidavit.

Noel Bonilla-Jimenez admitted to recording the incidents with the boy but claimed he deleted the videos, according to the affidavit. He admitted to engaging in sex acts with the boy two or three times at his home, according to the affidavit.

Police also found evidence Bonilla-Jimenez sent the video to a man with a text message that read “7-year-old boy,” according to the affidavit.

Police believe Bonilla-Jimenez was 17 years old when the boy was raped, according to the affidavit.

His arraignment is scheduled for March 7 in Benton County Circuit Judge Robin Green’s courtroom

https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2022/feb/02/rogers-man-accused-of-raping-young-boy/

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On January 25, the Rogers Police Department filed a request for an arrest warrant including child pornography charges for Noel Bonilla-Jimenez, 18.

A Rogers PD detective filed the eight page motion with details dating back over 18 months. The motion states that, on June 22, 2021, he received multiple Cyber Tips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).

The first Cyber Tip was submitted by Instagram on or about May 17, 2021. According to Instagram, a user uploaded a video file to an identified user with a hash value that had been previously viewed in other cases and categorized as Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM). The video involved a prepubescent female and an adult male.

Instagram identified the recepient of the video and also provided further information on the owner of the account, including a phone number, user ID and screen name.

Another report was submitted by Instagram the following day, when a user uploaded the same video file. Instagram again provided relevant information about both parties, including phone numbers and screen names of the uploader and recepient.

The next Cyber Tip was submitted by Snapchat, on or about May 15, 2021. According to Snapchat, a user uploaded a video with a hash value that corresponded with a video previously viewed in other cases and categorized as CSAM involving a prepubescent girl and an adult male.

Snapchat provided the user’s phone number, date of birth, email address and IP address.

In the court filing, the detective reported that he conducted a search of the phone number “and found that it possibly belonged to Noel Bonilla-Jimenez.” Police records showed that Bonilla-Jimenez had an address in Rogers and lived there.

On or about September 3, 2021, Instagram filed a report with NCMEC concerning a user that sent a video classified as a prepubescent minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct. They reported the sender and recepient, as well as the hash value of the video.

The phone number and date of birth associated with the sender’s account matched Bonilla-Jimenez.

On or about December 10, 2021, the Rogers detective received a Cyber Tip with a report titled Priority Level 2, which “indicates possible risk to an individual in the near future or is otherwise time-sensitive.”

That report was called in on November 24, 2021, by someone who wished to remain anonymous. That person reported that a Snapchat user had sent multiple videos of a prepubescent girl engaging in illicit activity with another user. That suspected user was identified as Bonilla-Jimenez.

The detective stated that he called the reporting party on December 20, 2021, and was told that she had met Noel Bonilla-Jimenez a few months ago, and that they exchanged Snapchat contact information. She said she observed his account and found “several videos of him having sex with believed to be adult females and videos of a prepubescent male” engaging in a sex act with an adult male.

She stated that she saved the videos to share with law enforcement, and the detective later received them. The caller reported that Noel Bonilla-Jimenez posted a comment with a child’s age on one of the videos. The detective identified him as the adult male depicted in the videos.

Later that day, the detective went to Noel Bonilla-Jimenez’s address and met a woman that confirmed he lived there. He showed her a clip from one of the reported videos and she was able to identify a child involved. She also identified Bonilla-Jimenez from a screen shot taken from one of the videos. The detective showed her another photo, with a background that matched the videos, and she confirmed that it was taken inside a bathroom at the residence.

Investigators left the area after learning that the suspect was not home. They later made contact with him and conducted an interview in which he admitted to being the owner of the accounts listed in all of the Cyber Tips, with the exception of one. He initially denied knowing the child shown in a screen shot.

He then replied “I’m going to be honest with you now since you basically know everything,” and admitted that he knew the child and that “they have already discussed and dealt with the incident.” He then said he was not comfortable discussing the incident and claimed that he had not seen the child in four or five years.

He stated that the incidents occurred two or three times, and that all of them happened at his residence. When informed that one of the videos appeared to take place inside a vehicle, Noel Bonilla-Jimenez replied that they were in his vehicle, parked in the driveway of the residence.

The child was later interviewed at the Children’s Advocacy Center and he did not disclose any sexual abuse. When the interviewer asked him about seeing a video with him in it, the child began to cry and said that he wanted to leave the room.

They also interviewed the child’s mother, who identified her son in a screen capture and said that the picture appeared to have been taken approximately one year ago, when he would have been seven years old.

On December 21, 2021, the detective received a search warrant for Noel Bonilla-Jimenez’s residence and executed it at approximately 4:20 p.m., with “several Detectives of the Rogers Police Department.” The suspect was home and was made to wait outside while the search was conducted.

Detectives located two iPhones, an iPad, a desktop computer, an 8GB flash drive and a 16GB flash drive. They received a warrant to search the seized devices on December 27, 2021.

The detective reported that he “conducted forensic extraction of both cell phones,” as well as the computer’s hard drive. During his investigation, he located one of the Snapchat videos, and also found that there were four copies of it in the “downloads” folder.

He also found a copy of the video on a seized iPhone 7, and noted that it was associated with a WhatsApp text conversation in which Noel Bonilla-Jimenez sent the video with a message reading “7 year old boy.”

Based on the above, on January 25 the detective filed an affidavit of probable cause to obtain an arrest warrant on the following charges:

Distributing, Possessing or Viewing of Matter Depicting Sexually Explicit Conduct Involving a Child, Class C Felony, two counts
Computer Exploitation of a Child, Class Y Felony

The court issued and filed an arrest warrant the next day.

https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/rogers-man-accused-of-raping-boy-sharing-child-porn/

Trevone Miller Teen Killer Murders Transgender Teen

Trevone Miller was an eighteen year old teen killer from Arkansas who would murder a transgender teen in order to cover up the relationship. According to court documents Trevone Miller and Brayla Stone were involved in a sexual relationship when he became paranoid his friends would find out so he would murder seventeen year old Brayla Stone and left her dead inside of a van. Trevone Miller who had previously been convicted of murder would plead guilty and was sentenced to forty years in prison plus an additional ten years for a gun enhancement

Trevone Miller 2023 Information

ADC Number178501

Name:Miller, Trevone H

Race BLACK

Sex MALE

Hair Color UNKNOWN

Initial Receipt Date 09/10/2021

Delta Regional Unit

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Six years after his involvement in the fatal robbery of one teenager, 20-year-old Trevone Hayse Miller of Sherwood is going to prison for killing another teen, a transgender girl whom prosecutors say Miller murdered to cover up their sexual relationship.

Friends and acquaintances told Sherwood police that Trevone Miller was afraid that people would think he was gay and that 17-year-old Brayla Stone of North Little Rock had told him she was going to make their relationship public.

Sentencing papers filed Thursday describe Miller’s motive for killing Stone in June 2020. Documents show Miller, who turned 20 last week, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in exchange for a 50-year sentence imposed by Pulaski County Circuit Judge Barry Sims.

Trevone Miller, jailed since his arrest about a week after the killing, will have to serve 35 years before he can apply for parole, which will make him 53 when he becomes eligible for early release given credit for time served. Under the conditions of his plea deal, negotiated by attorney Birc Morledge and chief deputy prosecutor John Johnson, the charge was reduced from capital murder.

Stone’s murder, three weeks after her 17th birthday, drew national attention from LGBT advocates, coming during what the Human Rights Campaign reported was a record year for fatal violence against transgender or gender non-confirming people. Stone was the 17th known victim in a year that ultimately had at least 44 such slayings.

“Brayla Stone was a child. A child, just beginning to live her life. A child of trans experience. A young Black girl who had hopes and dreams, plans and community,” said Tori Cooper with Transgender Justice Initiative at the time. “As a nation, we failed Brayla — as we have failed every transgender or gender non-conforming person killed in a country that embraces violence and upholds transphobia, racism, homophobia.”

Stone, born Braylen Stone, was found dead by a passerby inside a black Saturn Vue on a gravel walking trail closest to 7224 Vista Point Court, within view of Gap Creek Drive. She’d been reported missing to North Little Rock police shortly before her body was found.

Stone had been shot through the head with her body lying upside down on the front passenger floorboard with her legs resting on the seat’s backrest. The driver’s-side window had been broken out. Blood spattered the car’s interior, with investigators noting a strong smell of bleach inside, along with discoloration marks from the clearing agent inside the car and on some of the contents, according to police reports.

According to an arrest affidavit, Trevone Miller quickly became a person of interest for Sherwood police. The manager at the Arby’s restaurant where Miller worked, Lekeia Tutt, called to report that Miller had not shown up for work the day before the girl’s body was found. Miller had called her, saying “I f * * * * * up and I f * * * * * up big time,” and “I messed up and won’t be back for a very long time, if ever.”

Trevone Miller would not answer when Tutt asked him what he had done, only telling her to watch the news. Tutt called police as soon as she learned that a body had been found in Sherwood.

Audrey Jackson, a friend of Stone’s, said that the day before she was found dead, Stone had discovered that Miller was having a relationship with a 19-year-old woman.

That same evening, Miller texted Stone to meet him, and Jackson said Stone was talking to her over the phone while waiting in front of Miller’s home to meet with him, Jackson told police. The phone call ended with Stone telling her, “here he comes,” the affidavit states.

Five hours later — about 15 hours before Stone was found dead — Jackson told police that she received a text message from Stone saying that Stone was “not up for this.”

Jackson also told police that Stone had told other people about her relationship with Miller but that Miller had been paying Stone to keep quiet. Jackson said the location where Stone’s body was found was significant because Miller was known for using the location to have sex.

Tionne Foreman, the woman Trevone Miller had been seeing, told police that Miller had told her Stone was going to expose him. Foreman further told investigators that Miller was afraid of being considered homosexual and that he had said he planned to kill Stone, a threat Foreman and her friends did not take seriously.

A friend of Foreman’s, Angela Dean, told police that she had overheard a phone conversation between Foreman and a “stressed” Miller the day before Stone was found dead.

Dean told investigators that Miller made a suicidal comment during the conversation but then quickly dropped the idea of harming himself to say that he instead planned to kill Stone, despite her and Foreman’s efforts to calm him down.

A cousin of Foreman’s, Mhalik Coleman, also told police that he overheard Miller on the phone with Foreman telling her he was going to kill Stone, further describing a call to Foreman after Stone’s slaying in which Miller told Foreman that Stone was dead, according to the affidavit.

The affidavit also shows that investigators noted similarities between Stone’s killing and the April 2016 murder of 17-year-old Bryan Allen Thompson in the parking lot of the Bill Harmon Recreation Center in Sherwood. Thompson was found dead, shot in the throat, behind the wheel of his car by a worker at the center. Miller was one of three teenagers charged in his death.

In both cases, the shooter fired a weapon from the passenger’s seat, “which prevented a quick escape of the victim who was seated in the driver’s seat,” Sherwood detective Craig Grisham noted.

Both killings also took place in a location “very familiar” to Trevone Miller while also being close to his home, “which would allow an easily undetected escape from the scene,” Grisham stated in the arrest affidavit.

Miller did not kill Thompson but he did witness his murder close up, sitting in the back seat of Thompson’s vehicle, he told investigators at the time. His account of Thompson’s killing helped identify which of the three suspects shot the victim.

At 14, Miller was the youngest of the three teens arrested. Authorities said Thompson’s killing began as a robbery plot set up by Xavier Terrell Porter of North Little Rock, who lured Thompson to the recreation center with the promise of buying marijuana from Thompson. Porter knew Thompson because they had worked together at a restaurant.

Porter never got in the car. When Thompson arrived, Miller and the third teen, Quincy Parks of Sherwood, got into the car. Parks carried a pistol that Porter had given him and sat in the front, while Miller, carrying a broken BB gun in his pants, got in the back.

Miller told police that Thompson was measuring the marijuana when Parks suddenly got out of the car and fired a shot, which surprised Miller. Parks grabbed money from the vehicle, about $15, and they all left. Police found about a pound of marijuana in the car, and arrested all three within a day.

Six months later, in October 2016, Miller made a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to aggravated robbery in juvenile court and to testify against his co-defendants with the capital-murder charge against him dropped.

Miller never had to testify. Parks, now 20, and Porter, now 22, each went on to plead guilty. Porter accepted a 10-year sentence for aggravated robbery, while Parks received a 20-year sentence for aggravated robbery and first-degree murder.

Authorities identified Porter as the killer based on Miller’s statement to police and surveillance video from the Shelby Road recreation center.

https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2021/aug/14/man-says-he-killed-trans-girl-last-year/

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Colton Harvey Teen Killer Murders Sleeping Sister

Colton Harvey was fifteen years old from Arkansas when he would shoot and kill his sleeping sister. According to court documents Colton Harvey and sixteen year old Candace Harvey did not get along and it ended violently when Colton would shoot and kill Candace as she slept. Colton Harvey was sentenced to 45 years in prison after pleading guilty to second degree murder. This teen killer would receive an additional three years in prison for stabbing a correctional officer in the face. When Colton Harvey was twenty two years old he would be found dead in his prison cell from suicide

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An Arkansas teenager who admitted shooting and killing his sister as she slept never told police or prosecutors why he did it, but according to a childhood friend, the 15-year-old hated the straight-A student and athlete.

That friend described animosity between Colton Harvey and his 16-year-old sister, Candace, in an interview with authorities obtained Thursday by The Associated Press under a Freedom of Information Act request. Harvey pleaded guilty to second-degree murder this week in exchange for a 45-year prison sentence.

“He’s always said that he hated his sister, but he wasn’t ever saying nothing about he was gonna kill his sister,” the friend said in February, about a month after Harvey pointed his father’s rifle at his sister’s head and fired three shots.

Colton Harvey turned himself in the morning of the shooting, after heading to that friend’s home and telling him what happened.

Harvey never explained to authorities or the court why he killed his sister. While his friend’s answers hint at one possible explanation, his mother, in another interview with authorities, said her children didn’t really fight.

“If he tries to start something, Candace will just go to her room and shut the door,” Erica Harvey said the day of the shooting, according to a state police report. “When we leave them at home alone, Colton tries to be in charge and he will take over the remote to the TV and stuff and so Candace will just go to her room.”

Candace played basketball and did well in school. Her brother used to play football, his mother told an investigator, but his parents pulled him out when his grades fell.

The two teens had hardly seen each other the weekend Candace died, their mom told state police. Candace had a ballgame and work. Her brother, meanwhile, picked up rocks as punishment and stewed in his room after his parents grounded him for using chewing tobacco.

Then, on Jan. 15, the Harveys woke their son up to tend to some jerky from the deer he had shot the weekend before. While Erica Harvey and her husband were grocery shopping, Colton Harvey grabbed his father’s gun and pointed the barrel at his sister’s forehead and fired. She awoke with a scream, and he shot her in the head twice more.

“I think that he just wanted to hurt me and his father and he knew this would kill us,” their mother said, according to the state police report.

After the shooting, Harvey climbed in his father’s truck and took off with a bag of clothes, ammunition and deodorant. He started driving toward the hills, then changed his mind and headed to the sheriff’s office. He was scared, so he left and went to his friend’s house for some chewing tobacco. He confessed to his friend before returning to the sheriff’s office.

Harvey’s friend, whom the AP isn’t identifying because he is underage and would have likely been a witness had the case gone to trial, said he didn’t believe Harvey when he told him he shot his sister.

“I thought he was just messing with me,” the friend said in the interview with authorities.

Investigators found Candace’s body in the family’s home near Ozark, a town of about 3,600 roughly 120 miles northwest of Little Rock.

Prosecutors initially charged Harvey with first-degree murder, which carries a maximum penalty of life without parole, but they later worked out a plea bargain with his attorney.

That lawyer, Bill James, said there is a history of mental illness in Harvey’s family, but he said an expert wasn’t able to give his client a diagnosis because of his young age.

A state review of Harvey’s mental health noted he was depressed after being jailed and that he said he had lost consciousness playing football in junior high school. But it found nothing on which to blame the shooting.

Harvey’s attorney said there was some sibling rivalry, but nothing that could have foreshadowed what happened.

Harvey’s friend said Candace snitched on her brother even though he kept his mouth shut. He described Candace as the “golden child” who got whatever she wanted, while Harvey “just got kicked off to the side.”

“I guess he finally got tired of it one day and went off,” the friend said.

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/teen-colton-harvey-shot-sleeping-sister-hated-straight-a-student-athlete-article-1.1091878

Colton Harvey Death

Correctional officers found an inmate at Varner Supermax hanging in his cell Thursday evening in an apparent suicide, according to a Arkansas Department of Correction spokeswoman.

Colton Harvey, 22, was found hanging in his cell at 5:28 p.m. Thursday, department spokesman Dina Tyler said in a news release. He had tied a bed sheet to his neck and looped it through the cell bars, Tyler said.

Correctional staff had checked on him 40 minutes before his body was found, and Tyler said he “gave no indication of his intentions.”

Harvey was convicted of second-degree murder in June 2012 and was serving a 48-year sentence, Tyler said. In 2018, three years were added to his sentence after he used a metal shank to stab a Varner correctional officer in the head and face

https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2019/sep/26/arkansas-inmate-22-dead-apparent-suicide-officials/

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Arkansas Death Row Inmate List

Arkansas Death Row for men is at the Varner Supermax Unit and the Arkansas Death Row for women is at the McPherson Unit. The State of Arkansas uses lethal injection for their executions. Arkansas Department Of Corrections list their death row inmates by time spent on death row with the longest listed first.