Charged in 2 deaths, Jonesboro man due in court

— A 28-year-old man accused of killing two people who were found dead in a mobile home in northeast Arkansas is due in court for a pretrial hearing.

John Anthony Arnoult is to go before a judge in Harrisburg on Friday.

Arnoult, of Jonesboro, has pleaded innocent to two counts of capital murder in the September deaths of 56-year-old Constance Cole and 57-year-old John Poff.

He has also pleaded innocent to a burglary charge.

Authorities arrested Arnoult after a maintenance worker found Cole and Poff dead in Poff’s mobile home in Trumann.

Police said neighbors reported hearing gunshots the morning their bodies were found, but dismissed it as noise from dove hunters.

Arnoult is to go on trial later this month.

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