A Jonesboro man has been arrested for allegedly breaking into Arkansas State University’s College of Media and Communication in December. The Sun Newspaper reports 42 year old Kevin Sullivan reportedly turned himself into police over the weekend and admitted to the crime. Officials stated Sullivan reportedly entered the building through an unlocked second story window and went through several offices. About one thousand dollars of property was stolen during the burglary, and police say Sullivan provided them with a list of items taken which matched the property reported stolen. Sullivan is in the Craighead County Detention Center facing a commercial burglary charge. He is being held on a 10-thousand –dollars bond. Sullivan is also facing a parole violation. Conviction of commercial burglary carries a penalty of up to 30 years in prison. His next court appearance is scheduled for May 29th.
Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.