Photo: Jimmy Jay Bonds
A Stone County man, 35-year-old Jimmy Jay Bonds, is being held on felony charges of criminal mischief and breaking or entering in connection with an incident last Thursday shortly after midnight.
According to the probable cause affidavit, a Stone County man awoke to a loud thud and looked outside his residence to see the door open to his shed and a man he did not know. The resident of the home retrieved his 1911 handgun, went outside as a vehicle was exiting his driveway and fired two rounds into the air. He then fired an additional round into the woods. It was at this point he saw the loud noise was a result of the unknown male’s vehicle backing into the passenger door of the victim’s pickup truck.
Deputies from the Stone County Sheriff’s Office responded to the incident along Locust Point Lane in Mountain View, the fifth call of a breaking or entering in that area of the county within a two-week period.
A neighbor of the victim told law enforcement he had seen the suspect’s vehicle going down Locust Point Lane earlier and thought nothing of it, until he heard approximately four gun shots.
He exited his home to see a car coming from his neighbor’s yard and pull in the yard around his own home. When the driver of the vehicle discovered he could not get around the man’s house, he turned around. The vehicle then came around his house and exited via the driveway.
Later that day, the sheriff’s office received a call of a vehicle matching the one at the break-in at the intersection of Arkansas Highway 9 South and Monahan Road. The vehicle was found unoccupied in the road.
Officers spoke to a woman who lived across the road from where the vehicle was left. She told them an intoxicated man came to her house and asked for a ride. She said the man told her his name was “Bonds,” and his vehicle had run out of gasoline. She said she had given the man a ride home.
The vehicle had damage to the passenger rear, with white paint matching the damage to the victim’s truck on the bumper.
Bonds is being held in the Stone County jail. His charges also include a misdemeanor count of criminal trespass with possession of a prohibited device or tool and a penalty enhancement of being a habitual offender. His bond was set at $20,000.
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