Jailed man faces fifth assault case

A 23-year-old man accused of four attacks on women in the North Little Rock area has been linked to a fifth assault case, authorities said Monday.

On Thursday, DNA evidence tied David Lee Jones Jr. to a rape reported June 5, North Little Rock police said. A 19-year-old Hot Springs resident told police that a man assaulted her behind the Walgreens at 2500 McCain Blvd. in North Little Rock, 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 say Jones admitted involvement in the Allen Street sexual assault and the attack on the jogger.

Jones was still being held at the Pulaski County jail as of Monday afternoon with bail set at more than $4 million, records show.