A local man already being sought for violating parole was arrested Tuesday after allegedly threatening to kill another man and firing a gun in the air.
Fredrick Dewonne Easter, 30, who lists a Crescent Street address, was taken into custody shortly before 12:30 p.m. and charged with a felony count of first-degree terroristic threatening, punishable by up to six years in prison.
Easter, who was being held on $3,500 bond and a parole hold, appeared Wednesday in Garland County District Court.
According to the probable cause affidavit, shortly after noon Tuesday, Hot Springs police Cpl. Kenny May responded to the 100 block of Portland Street regarding threats made and spoke to a woman who stated that about 15 minutes earlier, a known suspect, identified as Easter, drove by in a brown Chevrolet Malibu and threatened to kill her brother.
She noted she has known Easter "almost all her life" and after he made the threats he brandished what she believed was a handgun and then left the area.
As she was talking to May, the woman's brother called 911 from his residence on Palmetto Street to report Easter had just driven by his house in a brown Malibu and fired several rounds from a handgun into the air as he went by.
Responding officers reportedly located numerous cartridge casings in the street and put out a description of Easter's vehicle to other officers. A few minutes later, Officer Jason Greene spotted the vehicle and stopped it at the intersection of Alcorn and Miller streets and Easter was identified as the driver and taken into custody.
Local on 04/18/2019