A 23-year-old man accused of four attacks on women in the North Little Rock area has been linked to a fifth assault, authorities said Monday.
On Thursday, DNA evidence reported tied David Lee Jones Jr. to a rape reported June 5. A 19-year-old Hot Springs resident told police that a man assaulted her behind the Walgreens at 2500 McCain Blvd., according to a report.
Jones was arrested June 10 after he was identified as a suspect in a rape earlier that month in the 4800 block of John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Arkansas Online previously reported.
Police said investigators interviewed Jones and later charged him in three additional cases:
— An attack on two women in Lakewood Village on March 25
— A rape and robbery in the 4900 block of Allen Street on April 11
— An assault of a woman who was jogging on Five Mile Creek Trail on April 16
In those cases, Jones faces charges including four counts of terroristic threatening, breaking and entering, aggravated robbery, second-degree battery and rape.
Arrest reports released in June show Jones admitted involvement in the Allen Street sexual assault and the attack on the jogger.
Jones, a North Little Rock resident, was still being held at the Pulaski County jail as of Monday afternoon in lieu of more than $4 million bond, records show.
