Judge Revokes Mitchell Johnson's Bond
posted 1:12 pm Wed February 06, 2008 - Fayetteville
A judge Wednesday revoked Jonesboro school shooter Mitchell Johnson's bond that had left him free while awaiting sentencing on a weapons conviction.
Johnson jailed over the weekend on a marijuana charge. He'd been out on a $5,000 bond pending sentencing on the federal weapons charge, an offense that could get him 10 years in prison.
U.S. District Judge Jimm Larry Hendren ruled that Johnson violated terms of his release and ordered him held without bond pending his sentencing.
Johnson was turned over to U.S. Marshals. A sentencing hearing has not been set.
Tuesday, police added a theft charge stemming from reported use of a debit card that was left at a convenience store where he had worked. It was during that investigation that police found the alleged marijuana on Johnson.
Now 23, Johnson was 13 when he and then-11-year-old Andrew Golden were found guilty in juvenile court of killing four fellow students and a teacher at Jonesboro Westside Middle School in 1998.
Latest Comment on Judge Revokes Mitchell Johnson's Bond
cracra4
11:01 am on 02/07/08
He sure wouldn't have survived his sentence had he been locked up in an "adult" prison instead of Juvi for his crimes! I say if he's old enough to know he's killing people and plot to kill people, he should have been old enough to be placed with the "adults" and prosecuted the rest of his life. Our system is too lenient!
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