Prairie Grove police arrested Ashley Jones, 21, of Prairie Grove, on Sept. 7 in connection with two felony counts of filing a false police report by claiming that an order of protection had been violated on several occasions.
Prairie Grove and Fayetteville police had been investigating reports by Jones that a Prairie Grove man had sent threatening messages through Facebook to her in violation of the protection order.
A separate investigation was ongoing by Fayetteville police that Jones had used the Prairie Grove man's credit card to make fraudulent purchases.
Through the two investigations and subsequent interviews with Jones and her mother, Jones admitted to creating a false Facebook account with the man's name and photo and using it to send the threatening messages to her personal Facebook account, according to the police reports.
The report notes that the incidents reported by the suspect accrued more than $500 in costs for investigations by both departments. The incidents caused the victim, the man from Prairie Grove, to be arrested two times from his business, costing him earnings and public embarrassment. The victim also lost $370 in bond money, the report states.
General News on 09/20/2017