A man who escaped yesterday from the Stone County jail has been caught overnight in Independence County. KAIT television reports 37 year old Shane Mitchell escaped from the jail around 4:15 yesterday afternoon and was believed to be headed to Jonesboro. Early this morning, the Stone County Sheriff’s Department reportedly received a call saying Mitchell had been caught in Independence County and was in custody. Stone County jail records indicate Mitchell was being held for a probation violation and he is expected to be charged with fleeing. Officials are investigating how Mitchell escaped from the jail.
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.