CAMDEN — Stalker of video gamer is
caught, jailed in Rogers
ROGERS - A man was arrested on stalking charges after he traveled across the country to the Arkansas home of a woman who is a video game streamer, according to a probable cause affidavit.
Arkansas Online reports that Joshua John Moore, 30, of Lynnwood, Wash., was taken into custody around 3:30 a.m. Saturday in Rogers on stalking charges and a misdemeanor charge of obstructing governmental operations, the affidavit states. Police said Moore, who wore a yellow raincoat and a blue suit and held flowers, was sitting outside the home of a woman that he had been stalking for a year. She told authorities that Moore had sent “countless” emails threatening to rape her and kill her boyfriend.
When officers asked for his name, he called himself “one love” and said that the Rogers woman invited him, the affidavit states. Police found a Washington ID in his wallet and photos of the woman and a Greyhound bus ticket from Washington in his backpack, according to court documents. The woman told authorities that Moore had said he “was coming to Arkansas via bus to marry her” and that he had sent her a photo from the Fayetteville station where he arrived. According to court documents, he then walked to her home.
The victim posts videos on Twitch, a video game streaming site, and has more than 500,000 followers, police said.
Moore has been sending her messages for the past year, some of which were threatening, authorities said. She gave police some of the letters, lingerie and gifts the 30-year-old had sent. The woman has never “spoken to or messaged Moore” according to the affidavit.
In one email, Moore wrote that he would put the woman and her family in a garbage bin and light them on fire and that he would “blow her face” with a homemade hydrogen bomb.
Facebook helps in return
of century-old gravestone
ARKANSAS - The day after an Arkansas sheriff’s office asked for help regarding a gravestone more than a century old, the marker has been returned to the family plot where it belongs, states Arkansas Online.
The Greene County agency wrote about the headstone on social media on Monday. Sheriff David Carter said that within an hour of asking for help in returning W. W. Warner’s 113-year-old headstone, authorities were headed to the home of Beliew Cemetery’s groundskeeper. Deputies found the grave marker on a gravel road about a year ago, and the agency held onto it, not sure of where it belonged, Carter said. The sheriff’s office posted about it on Facebook and commenters responded with information about the grave and the groundskeeper, Bill Reinhart. On Facebook, authorities said they had gone out to the cemetery in Lafe and looked for the grave site for “several hours” in the past.
Reinhart will let the headstone dry and then reattach it to its base, Carter said.
Carter suspected the marker was taken by vandals, who then left it in the road. The cemetery has been a target previously, he added.
The sheriff said neither he nor the groundskeeper knew the family of Warner, who was born in 1826 and died in 1905.
Eval ordered for woman who wanted to kill judge
BENTONVILLE — A judge Monday ordered a mental evaluation for a woman accused of soliciting someone to kill a judge, according to Arkansas Online.
Dorris Renee Jenkins, 36, and her 21-year-old fiancé, Adan Taylor, both of Springdale, are each being held on $1 million bond in the Benton County jail. Each have pleaded not guilty to solicitation to commit capital murder.
Jenkins appeared in court Monday. Jay Saxton, her attorney, requested the mental evaluation. Benton County Circuit Judge Robin Green granted Saxton’s motion and suspended legal proceedings pending the outcome of the evaluation.
A mental status hearing is scheduled for Jan. 7. Jenkins was in the Benton County jail when she asked a fellow inmate, who was a confidential informant, if she knew someone who would “take out a judge,” according to an affidavit filed in the case. Jenkins told the informant she wanted Benton County Circuit Judge Brad Karren killed and agreed to meet the informant after getting out of jail, according to court documents. The informant planned to introduce Jenkins to an undercover sheriff’s detective. The informant and detective met with Jenkins and Taylor. Jenkins claimed Karren has arrested members of her family since 1997 and she feels he is unfair. Jenkins said she had a list of 15 people she wanted killed. The deputy told her it was expensive, and Jenkins trimmed the list to two people.