BROOKLAND, Ark. (KAIT) – A Pocahontas man is behind bars after police say he threatened to shoot up a school.
Detective Dustin Norwood of the Brookland Police Department received word of a threat complaint at the Brookland High School on Sept. 25 at 10 a.m.
While on his way to the school, Norwood learned that the school had been placed on lockdown due to the threat, according to the affidavit.
Norwood met with the Student Resource Officer, who originally told Norwood of the threat, advising him that a male “made threats to shoot up Brookland school” as well as threatened to kill one of the students.
One of the victims told Norwood that they and the suspect, 19-year-old Logan Cody Jones of Pocahontas, had been dating and described him as “toxic and controlling.” The victim said Jones would accuse her of cheating, repeatedly calling and texting her to the point she would block his number.
During these exchanges, Jones would “call her names and even threaten her.”
According to the affidavit, the victim said days after ending the relationship, Jones attempted to contact her from blocked and/or different numbers “300-400 times, as well as texting her too many times to count.”
Norwood spoke to the victim’s mother, who echoed what her daughter had told him.
The affidavit said on or about Sept. 17, the victim said Jones dropped off a “breakup” note on her car while she was in school.
Norwood said in the affidavit that Jones began texting the victim on Sept. 24 from a new number, which she did not respond to.
phone or I’ll come to shoot up your school,” followed by a threat to her family.
After finding out about the threats, the victim’s mother immediately alerted the school. She said she spent the last few months “looking over her shoulder and worried for the safety of her family” and going as far as to seek an Order of Protection against Jones.
Detective Norwood reached out to Officer Jeremiah Winslow with the Pocahontas Police Department after learning that Jones was at the Pocahontas School District.
Police apprehended Jones and took him to the Craighead County Detention Center after briefly holding him at the Randolph County Detention Center.
During an interview with Investigator Winslow, Norwood learned that Jones made “incriminating statements to Pocahontas school officials regarding the communication he had sent to the victim.”
Craighead County Judge David Boling found probable cause to charge Jones with the following:
-One count of making a terroristic threat in the 1st degree, a Class D felony
-Five counts of terroristic threatening in the 1st degree, a Class D felony
-One count of threatening to commit acts of mass violence on school property, a Class C felony
-One count of stalking, a Class C felony
-One count of harassing, a Class A misdemeanor
Jones is held on a $1 million cash surety bond. Should Jones make bond, the Brookland Police Department and Brookland Public School Administration request that he be ordered to wear a GPS ankle monitor and be barred from all Brookland Public School property and a no-contact order be issued.
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