Arron Michael Lewis’ criminal history

April 2003: Lewis is paroled after a robbery conviction in Louisiana, and his supervision is transferred to Utah’s Adult Probation and Parole system.

September: Utah sends a parole violation warrant on Lewis to Louisiana after he is charged with burglary in Utah. Louisiana issues an arrest warrant on the burglary charge, as well as failure to maintain employment and absconding. Utah closes its case against Lewis once the warrant is served and transfers him back to Louisiana.

Oct. 31: Lewis is arrested after stealing a 1997 Chrysler Sebring in Missouri and driving it to Kansas. Officers discover a sketch of an explosive device, handcuffs, a law enforcement badge and a demand note that Lewis said he had intended to use in a bank robbery.

November: Lewis pleads guilty to a federal charge of interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle in U.S. court for the Western District of Missouri.

March 11, 2004: Lewis is sentenced on the federal charge to time served with three years of supervised release.

April 28: A federal judge revokes Lewis’ supervised release after he steals a motorcycle in Kansas City, Mo., and drives it to Irving, Texas. He is sentenced to two years in federal prison and a year of supervised release for the motorcycle theft and for violating the terms of his supervised release. He also is ordered to undergo counseling, and testing for drug and alcohol abuse.

Nov. 10, 2006: Lewis is released after two years in prison, and his supervision is transferred from the Western District of Missouri to the Western District of Louisiana.

Nov. 20: Lewis is assigned to the City of Faith halfway house in Monroe, La.

Dec. 7: Lewis’ family, then living in north Louisiana, asks the court to place Lewis on work release. The family says it will help Lewis find a residence and “establish a career and assume a suitable role within normal societal expectations.”

Jan. 3, 2007: A judge denies the family’s request to have Lewis placed on work release.

Jan. 19: The halfway house kicks him out for “noncompliant and uncooperative behavior.” “Within only a little over two months of beginning suspension, Lewis is alleged to have returned to a lifestyle of criminal behavior and disregard for the safety of the community,” a U.S. assistant attorney writes later. Lewis left the halfway house on foot and “dropped out of sight.”

Feb. 9: Ouachita Parish, La., sheriff’s deputies arrest Lewis after he refuses to stop for an officer seeking to pull him over for failing to dim his vehicle's lights. The arrest follows a high-speed chase during which Lewis rams a police car several times. Until the arrest, the U.S. Probation Department was unaware of his whereabouts.

May 1: Lewis is convicted in a Louisiana state court of aggravated flight from a law enforcement officer.

May 25: Lewis files a complaint against the Western District of Louisiana for holding him in the Union Parish jail in Farmerville, La., and not releasing him into the custody of U.S. Marshals in a timely manner.

July 9: Lewis is transferred back into federal custody.

Aug. 17: The U.S. probation office revokes Lewis’ 2004 release and sentences him to an 18-month prison term to be followed by 18 months of supervised release.

May 28, 2008: Lewis is released from U.S. Bureau of Prisons custody and enrolls in the residential re-entry program at the Kansas City Community Center, now the Heartland Center for Behavioral Change, as a condition of his probation.

June 26: Lewis successfully completes substance-abuse and mental-health treatment at the Kansas City Community Center. His supervision is transferred to the Eastern District of Arkansas. He requested the transfer so he could move in with his father at Brinkley.

Sept. 12: The Eastern District of Arkansas sends Lewis back to the Western District of Missouri and the Kansas City Community Center after he fought with his father and stepmother.

Sept. 30: After conflicts with staff members at the Kansas City Community Center, Lewis asks to be transferred to the Grossman Rehabilitation Center in Leavenworth, Kan. He is kicked out of the community center later that night after an argument with staff members, but he returned the next day.

Oct. 6: Lewis enters the Grossman Rehabilitation Center in Leavenworth after he fails to comply with the Kansas City center’s program.

Nov. 4: He is charged in Kansas City, Kan., with felony theft for removing a theft detection device from an iPod at a Nebraska Furniture Mart store. He is transported by police to Kansas University Medical Center to be treated for a dislocated shoulder and escapes from custody.

Nov. 5: The Western District of Missouri issues an arrest warrant for Lewis after learning that he signed out of the Grossman Center in Leavenworth and never returned.

Nov. 24: Police in Perry, Okla., arrest Lewis on the warrant.

Nov. 25: Lewis is taken into federal custody and transferred back to the Western District of Missouri.

March 12, 2010: Lewis is released from U.S. Bureau of Prisons custody.

Feb. 15, 2011: Lewis and two women steal $1,230.78 in merchandise from a Wal-Mart store in Rogers. Detectives say he was suspected of similar thefts at other Wal-Mart stores in Oklahoma and Arkansas.

Feb. 22: Rogers police arrest Lewis in the Wal-Mart theft.

March 10: Lewis is charged in Washington County with felony theft of property.

Sept. 4: Lewis is caught in Benton County with stolen property valued at more than $5,000.

Oct. 12: While in the Benton County jail awaiting trial, Lewis is taken to Mercy Hospital Northwest Arkansas in Rogers with a collapsed lung. He undergoes surgery the next day.

Oct. 19: Lewis is charged in Benton County with felony theft by receiving in connection with his Sept. 4 arrest.

Nov. 9: Lewis files a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in the Western District of Arkansas against eight Benton County sheriff’s deputies, alleging that they were “very callous” during his medical emergency on Oct. 12.

Nov. 21: He is sentenced to six years in prison for theft by receiving and theft of property in Benton and Washington counties.

Oct. 15, 2012: Lewis’ lawsuit against the Benton County sheriff’s deputies is dismissed after the parties reach a settlement, awarding Lewis $59,000.

Aug. 8, 2013: Lewis is released from the Arkansas Department of Correction and placed on parole until 2017.

Sept. 28, 2014: Lewis is charged in a warrant in the kidnapping of Realtor Beverly Carter. The warrant was issued a short time after he walked away from Baptist Health Medical Center in Little Rock, where he was being treated for injuries related to a car crash earlier in the day.

Monday: Authorities arrest Lewis in Little Rock at Pleasant Pointe Apartments at 1602 Green Mountain Drive, where he ran after being spotted at a bus stop near 11715 Rainwood Road. During 12 hours of questioning, police say Lewis admits to kidnapping Carter.

Tuesday: Authorities find Carter’s body in a shallow grave in Cabot. Lewis is charged with capital murder. He enters preliminary innocent pleas to charges of capital murder and kidnapping.

Wednesday: Lewis is held without bail in the Pulaski County jail on charges of kidnapping, capital murder, robbery and four counts of possession of firearms by a convicted felon.