3 teens detained in sexting inquiry
Police reported that three Jacksonville teenagers were arrested Tuesday after purportedly exchanging sexual videos of themselves via cellphone, commonly known as sexting.
A 14-year-old boy and two girls, ages 13 and 14, were charged with distributing, possessing or viewing matter depicting sexually explicit conduct involving a child. Police had been investigating the teenagers’ cellphone activity since April 3. The videos were distributed to “several other juveniles,” according to a news release.
The exchange of sexually explicit material involving anyone under the age of 17 is a felony, for which the teens were cited in Pulaski County Juvenile Court before being released to their parents.
In the news release, Jacksonville police encouraged parents to monitor the cellphone activity of their children. Instagram, Snapchat and KIK Messenger are among the most popular cellphone apps used by children for sexting, according to police.
LR man said to rob hospitalized sister
A Little Rock man burglarized his sister’s home while she was hospitalized earlier this month and threatened to kill her and her children, police reported.
Gregory Fisher, 25, was arrested Monday. He’s accused of breaking into a home in the 3900 block of Potter Street and stealing more than $1,000worth of electronics, clothing, jewelry, prescription medication and clothing.
Christiney Harvey told investigators, according to a court affidavit, that when she returned home April 9 after being hospitalized for several days, various items had been stolen from the residence. A window had been broken and a door had been left open.
A neighbor told police that she’d seen Harvey’s brother, Fisher, outside the home with two other men on the day it was burglarized.
Harvey told investigators that when she called her brother to ask about the burglary, he purportedly admitted to the break-in and told her that if she contacted police, he would “kill her and her kids and shoot up her home,” the affidavit says.
Police later found that Fisher had pawned two diamond rings belonging to his sister. The rings had been taken from a safe in Harvey’s home during the burglary.
Fisher was charged with residential burglary, second-degree terroristic threatening, breaking or entering, first-degree criminal mischief and two counts of theft of property. He was being held in lieu of a $20,000 bond at the Pulaski County jail late Tuesday.
No other arrests had been made in the case.
Arkansas, Pages 11 on 04/23/2014