Mitchell Johnson
Posted on 02/04/2008 2:38:59 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Jonesboro school shooter Mitchell Johnson, already facing sentencing on a federal weapons charge, was arrested on a charge of misdemeanor drug possession, police said Monday.
Johnson, 23, was arrested Saturday night at a convenience store where he worked as a clerk, Bentonville police Lt. Jon Simpson said. Officers went to the store just before 8 p.m. after receiving a call that someone lost their credit card there and the card had been used at the store by someone else, Simpson said.
An officer suspected Johnson, and he consented to a search, police said. Authorities found a bag containing marijuana in his pocket, but he was not charged with using the stolen credit card, Simpson said.
Johnson could face a year in jail and a $1,000 fine if convicted of misdemeanor drug possession. No bond had been set, a jailer at the Benton County Jail said Monday.
John B. Schisler, Johnson's federal public defender in the weapons case, said Monday he was aware of Johnson's arrest and had no comment.
A federal jury convicted Johnson last week of possessing a gun while being a user of or addicted to a controlled substance stemming from a New Year's Day 2007 arrest in northwest Arkansas. He faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Testimony at Johnson's two-day trial last month showed the convicted killer got a job at a Wal-Mart store and routinely smoked marijuana with friends after his release. The night of his 2007 arrest, Johnson told officers of his plans to move to California and begin life again.
In 1998, Johnson, then 13, and Andrew Golden, then 11, shot at students and teachers at Jonesboro Westside Middle School in northeastern Arkansas after Golden pulled a fire alarm. The boys killed English teacher Shannon Wright and students Natalie Brooks, 11; Paige Herring, 12; Stephanie Johnson, 12; and Britthney Varner, 11. They wounded 10 others.
At the time of the schoolyard massacre, Arkansas had the means only to hold Johnson and Golden until age 18. Federal prosecutors acted before the boys' birthdays, securing convictions on weapons charges that kept them in prison until age 21.
Johnson's arrest Saturday should influence his federal pre-sentencing report, said Jeffery T. Walker, a criminology professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Walker said that arrest would be included in the report's narrative about Johnson, but wouldn't count as part of an overall score that offers guidance to a judge during sentencing.
Simpson said police continue to investigate who used the missing credit card at the store and Johnson remained a suspect in the case.
Are authorities waiting for him to murder again?
No problemo...the huckster will pardon him.....
~excerpt~FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas (AP) -- A federal jury convicted a 23-year-old man on an obscure weapons charge Tuesday, apparently unaware that 10 years ago he and another boy killed four classmates and a teacher in a schoolyard ambush. Mitchell Johnson, who killed classmates and a teacher 10 years ago, was convicted of a gun charge Tuesday. Mitchell Johnson faces 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine when he is sentenced in the next 45 days on a count of possessing a firearm while being a drug user. Through his attorney, Johnson declined to comment Tuesday. Johnson was arrested on New...
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RE: Your post from the other day
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1961771/posts
This loser is wasting no time as he commits even more crimes.
It doesn’t exactly look like this ‘yoot’ has been rehabilated.
Can’t top your question.
Oh my....not good!
It's worse than that, he's taking a convenience store job away from an illegal alien.
He must have a very low IQ indeed if he agreed to let police search him when he had a bag of marijuana in his pocket. Duh. (Unless they planted it on him?)
*shrug* They don’t call it “dope” for nuthin’!
Low IQ???
I don’t see how that’s possible since the article did say he got a job at Wal-Mart.
(lol at myself)
Mitchell Johnson
Yes, and you can't imagine how pissed Jose and Ackmed were; in fact they probably turned the cracker in.
Lest we forget however, here's photos of the dead and wounded innocents that were shot that day.
He has been free because he was a “juvenile” when he shot up the school. That frees him when he reaches adulthood. Unfortunately for him, he will likely be arrested for the merest infractions for the rest of his life and will spend a lot of time in prison. Such a person has to live a life of utter rectitude to hope to avoid prison, and needs to get himself to another state or country. Such a one, however is probably not very smart and will not avoid drugs and whatever strikes his fancy.
One can only hope that his risk taking behavior kills him.
Statistically speaking, that was no 'coinky dink'. Those two are badly warped, and only a miracle can rehab them.
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