JONESBORO, AR (KAIT) – Jonesboro Police said they were
dispatched to the 300 block of Garden Manor Drive in reference to a man with a
gun and an assault.

After some investigation and an on foot chase, officers
arrested 21-year-old Cedric K. Bell for second-degree battery and fleeing.
Police alleged Bell was the man responsible for breaking 18-year-old Marquis
Treyshun Jenkins's hand and beating him repeatedly with a vase.

On Wednesday morning CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) held its Light of Hope Breakfast at the Hilton Garden Inn in Jonesboro.

The annual event allows CASA volunteers, supporters and potential donors a chance to hear about the problems facing abused and neglected children in Your Region 8.

Craighead County tops the number of cases in the 2nd Judicial District, which includes Clay, Craighead, Crittenden and Poinsett counties.  In 2011 there were 1,300 founded cases of child abuse in Craighead County alone.

A couple of men who entered the Sonic restaurant on Stadium Boulevard late Tuesday night didn’t want a Route 44, but all the money in the register.

Restaurant employees were closing up for the night when they say two black men, armed with a handgun, entered the business at 2604 S. Stadium and demanded all of the money.

An employee, who was counting the money in the register, told police both men were approximately six-feet-four and weighed 110 to 120 pounds.