A man from Calico Rock has been arrested on a rape charge in Jonesboro. Twenty-nine-year-old Terry Nicholas Mitchell was arrested last week and booked into the Craighead County Jail on the class Y felony.
According to the probable cause affidavit from the Jonesboro Police Department, detectives met with the victim at the hospital who said she had been communicating with Mitchell for about three weeks after meeting him online. She had been traveling near Calico Rock Dec. 20 and invited Mitchell to go back to Jonesboro with her.
That night Mitchell asked to sleep in the victim’s bed, which she agreed to, but she said there would be no sexual contact. She later awoke to Mitchell inappropriately touching her. She pushed him away, told him “no” and went back to sleep.
She was awakened a second time to the rape occurring. The victim pushed Mitchell away, yelled for him to leave and went into the living room. Mitchell followed her and apologized for his actions.
Video evidence from inside the victim’s home corroborated her story of Mitchell following her to the living room and apologizing.
As Mitchell left the house, he took the victim’s cell phone and a camera captured him saying “I guess I won’t be hearing from you again,” and then apologized one more time. He then fled the scene on foot.
Mitchell is free after posting $200,000 bond.
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