Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Man accused of kidnapping, beating wife
Informant: Rodriguez-Robles held pregnant woman captive
Officers said the woman’s fingers were bent and broken “as if she had been tortured.”
When officers arrived at his apartment Monday, a Springdale man who held his pregnant wife captive for four days and left her appearing “as if she had been tortured” leapt from a second story window and ran, officers said.
A confidential informant told police Jackson RodriguezRobles, 35, was holding a woman captive in his apartment at 1806 Palisades Ave., according to a preliminary report from the department.
Rodriguez-Robles ran across the street and a neighbor’s yard, jumped a fence and ran across a nearby pasture before officers caught and arrested him, the report said.
Officers turned their attention to the apartment, where they found a woman who had been so badly beaten her eyes were swollen shut and her face was a myriad of bruises.
Her lips were so swollen she could barely speak, according to the report.
Officers said the woman’s fingers were bent and broken “as if she had been tortured.”
The woman was shaking uncontrollably, as she told police Rodriguez-Robles picked her up from the airport when she flew in from Puerto Rico and accused her of cheating on him and then, knowing she was pregnant, began a four-day assault in which he punched and hit her with multiple objects, including a gun, a knife-sharpening rod, a wire coat hanger and beer bottles.
Officers said they had to assure her multiple times Rodriguez-Robles had been caught before she could speak further.
Throughout the weekend, Rodriguez-Robles would stop and give her medication for the pain before assaulting her again, she told police.
Rodriguez-Robles punched her over and over in her stomach. She lifted her shirt to show them bruises across her abdomen, police said.
Sometimes, he’d cover his fist with a sock; sometimes he’d “pack” his fist with a blue lighter, she told them.
He said he would kill her, and if he didn’t, he’d have someone do it for him, according to the report.
Blood spatter was in three bathrooms in the house.
Dried blood was on clothes, walls, toilet seats, light switches and soaked into paper towels throughout the residence, officers reported.
Near a blood-spattered wall in the kitchen, officers found a bucket of bleach and water.
Rodriguez-Robles told investigators he didn’t know how his wife had gotten her injuries, but said he had been up for several days taking Xanax and marijuana and consuming alcohol. Officers said he admitted selling drugs and had a handgun and body armor in the apartment. There was blood on the bottom of the handgun, according to the report.
On his phone, detectives found a video of RodriguezRobles screaming at and striking the woman.
Officers said when Rodriguez-Robles saw the video, he “asked in disbelief if it was him hitting his wife in the video,” and when officers said it was, he began punching himself in the face and had to be restrained, according to the report.
Several other videos showed Rodriguez-Robles assaulting the woman, including a segment where he shoots a gun multiple times while the woman screams, according to the report.
The woman’s baby was still alive when she arrived at the hospital, but officers said losing the child is still a possibility.
Rodriguez-Robles was in the Washington County jail facing 15 charges — including aggravated assault, kidnapping and first-degree battery — as of Thursday evening, according to the jail’s roster. His bond is set at $150,000.