Who was arrested in the kidnapping and killing of Somer Thompson case?”
(AP) Authorities have arrested a man they are calling a person of interest in the kidnapping and killing of a northeast Florida girl whose body was found in a landfill after she vanished on her way home from school. Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler said Jarred Mitchell Harrell, 24, who had lived in the girl’s neighborhood was arrested in Mississippi Thursday on 29 charges of possession of child pornography. Harrell has not been charged in the death of 7-year-old Somer Thompson. The arrest warrant said he was being held on $1 million bond. Officials at the Lauderdale County Detention Facility in Mississippi said they didn’t know if he has a lawyer. Harrell, who was arrested in Meridian, Miss., had lived until recently in a home near Somer Thompson’s. Authorities searched that house Thursday. Deputies and an FBI forensics team were seen searching its front yard with rakes and shovels. The sheriff’s office restricted access to at least a block around the home, which is in a neighborhood f
Authorities have arrested a man they are calling a person of interest in the kidnapping and killing of a northeast Florida girl whose body was found in a landfill after she vanished on her way home from school. Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler said Jarred Mitchell Harrell, 24, who had lived in the girl’s neighborhood was arrested in Mississippi Thursday on 29 charges of possession of child pornography. Harrell has not been charged in the death of 7-year-old Somer Thompson. The arrest warrant said he was being held on $1 million bond. Officials at the Lauderdale County Detention Facility in Mississippi said they didn’t know if he has a lawyer. Harrell, who was arrested in Meridian, Miss., had lived until recently in a home near Somer Thompson’s. Authorities searched that house Thursday. Deputies and an FBI forensics team were seen searching its front yard with rakes and shovels. The sheriff’s office restricted access to at least a block around the home, which is in a neighborhood filled
Authorities have arrested a man they are calling a person of interest in the kidnapping and killing of a northeast Florida girl whose body was found in a landfill after she vanished on her way home from school. Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler said Jarred Mitchell Harrell, 24, who had lived in the girl’s neighborhood was arrested in Mississippi Thursday on 29 charges of possession of child pornography. Harrell has not been charged in the death of 7-year-old Somer Thompson. The arrest warrant said he was being held on $1 million bond. Officials at the Lauderdale County Detention Facility in Mississippi said they didn’t know if he has a lawyer. Harrell, who was arrested in Meridian, Miss., had lived until recently in a home near Somer Thompson’s. Authorities searched that house Thursday.
