Summit man charged with rape being held on $100,000 bond

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     A Summit man, who was arrested Wednesday on felony charges of rape, is being held in the Marion County jail with bond set at $100,000. Marion County Sheriff Clinton Evans says 19 year old Thomas Dean Rudder is charged with five counts of rape and a misdemeanor charge of criminal impersonation.

     Rudder’s arrest on the rape charge follows an investigation by the Marion County Sheriff’s Department and Arkansas State Police into a report Rudder raped a 13 year old girl from a family with whom he was well acquainted.   

     In an incident unrelated to the rape, the sheriff says Rudder, who was a volunteer with the Summit Fire Department, is accused of using his red emergency lights to stop a woman north of town to enforce a state traffic law.




    

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