A felon on probation was charged with multiple felonies Friday night after allegedly threatening a woman and her teen daughter at gunpoint and fleeing from Garland County sheriff's deputies on foot.
Paul Andrew Clark, 26, who lists a Music Mountain Road address, was taken into custody shortly before 8 p.m. and charged with possession of a firearm by certain persons, punishable by up to 20 years in prison, two counts of aggravated assault, each punishable by up to six years, and misdemeanor fleeing on foot.
Clark, who also had warrants for two felony counts of failure to appear and a probation violation, was being held on a zero bond and was set to appear Monday in Garland County District Court. He was convicted on April 21, 2020, of felony counts of theft of property, fleeing and aggravated assault and sentenced to five years' supervised probation. He was arrested again on April 12 on a charge of possession of a firearm by certain persons and later released on a $3,500 bond, with the case pending in Garland County Circuit Court.
According to the probable cause affidavit, shortly before 7:30 p.m. Friday, sheriff's Deputies Darrell Harmon and Devyn Hollaway spoke to a woman, 39, at the Valero at Malvern Avenue and Akers Road who said she and her daughter, 16, were visiting a family member at the trailer park at 4160 Malvern when they were accosted by a man, later identified as Clark, who was riding a bicycle and told them to "never knock on his door."
She said Clark went to his residence nearby and then came back, pulled up his shirt and displayed a handgun in his waistband. The woman said she yelled for her daughter to get in the car as Clark pulled the gun out and pointed it at both of them while continuing to threaten them.
The woman said she ran to her car and drove away, later meeting the deputies at the Valero. While deputies were talking with the victims, a family member pulled up and stated Clark was now trying to fight the family member's son back at the trailer park.
The deputies went there and made contact with Clark but while speaking to him he fled on foot through the trailer park. Harmon caught up to him and took him into custody and dispatch advised of the warrants for his arrest.
Two witnesses, 19 and 15, who were at the trailer park, both stated they had seen Clark with a gun and noted he was "acting frantic and waving the gun around." They went inside the residence and retrieved the gun, a loaded Ruger .22, from where they said Clark had hidden it.