JACKSONVILLE, Ark. (KATV) \u2014 Jacksonville police have charged 5 people following a cable theft investigation.<\/p>\n
The department, in a social media post, said that officers were called to a reported theft near area of South First Street just before 7 Thursday morning. After arriving on scene, authorities found cut cable and a damaged utility poll.<\/p>\n
Officers then saw fresh drag marks that led them into a nearby wooded area where they found a campsite and detained 5 people, the post reveals. <\/p>\n
Law enforcement recovered burnt wire, exposed wire and discarded cable casing from the campsite and surrounding area. A Brightspeed employee identified the recovered cable as company property, and estimated the damage to the cable and utility poll at around $35,000. <\/p>\n
Michael Shrubs, Jerry Rogers and Christina Parnell are all facing multiple charges including: <\/p>\n
Theft of Scrap MetalUnauthorized Use of Another\u2019s Property to Facilitate Certain CrimesCriminal MischiefDamaging Wires and Other Fixtures of Telephone, Cable, and Electric CompaniesTampering with EvidencePossessing Instruments of a Crime<\/p>\n
Shrubs was also charged with possession of a schedule I or II substance. All three are being held at the Pulaski County Jail. <\/p>\n
Kevin Johnson and Bryan George were both cited for criminal trespass and possession of drug paraphernalia and released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Ark. (KATV) \u2014 Jacksonville police have charged 5 people following a cable theft investigation. The department, in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-423607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}