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   David Lee Jones   
      
   Pulaski County Circuit Judge Leon Johnson on Thursday set bail at $1 million   
   for a 22-year-old North Little Rock man facing 23 felony charges over   
   accusations he is responsible for six attacks on women. The charges include   
   four counts of kidnapping and    
   three counts of rape.   
      
   The amount is a reduction from David Lee Jones Jr.’s original $4 million   
   bail but still 20 times more than the $50,000 his lawyer had requested.   
      
   Most murderers don’t have bail that high, defense attorney Ron Davis said.   
   Bail is only supposed to serve as a financial guarantee that the defendant   
   will show up for court, and it’s not to be used to punish a suspect, Davis   
   said.   
      
   Jones is charged with two counts of aggravated assault, three counts each of   
   rape, aggravated robbery and theft, four counts of kidnapping and six counts   
   of terroristic threatening. He faces a potential life sentence.   
      
   He has been jailed about 9 ½ months since his June 10 arrest, a day after,   
   prosecutors say, he ambushed a woman inside an abandoned house next door to   
   his home on Virginia Drive.   
      
   The 36-year-old woman was grabbed from behind; her assailant put a pistol to   
   her head and threatened to kill her, deputy prosecutor Jeanna Sherrill told   
   the judge at Thursday’s hearing.   
      
   But the woman was able to struggle from her assailant and run as the man shot   
   at her, Sherrill said.   
      
   The woman had gone to the house to meet a man for a sexual encounter arranged   
   through Backpage.com, the prosecutor said. She left her backpack when she ran,   
   and police later found it in Jones’ home. The woman came forward after   
   hearing about Jones’    
   arrest and recognizing his picture, the prosecutor said.   
      
   Sherrill argued that Jones, who did not testify, is a flight risk who evaded   
   Texas authorities for months before being arrested and extradited to that   
   state for a 2011 juvenile residential burglary conviction in Dallas. She said   
   he spent almost three    
   years in juvenile incarceration until he was released on his 19th birthday.   
      
   Jones also has juvenile convictions for minor in possession of a firearm in   
   2009 and aggravated assault, reduced from aggravated robbery, in 2012,   
   stemming from separate arrests in Pulaski County, she said.   
      
   The first attack police associated with Jones came about 2 a.m. April 11, when   
   a 19-year-old woman reported she’d been raped by an assailant who attacked   
   her in the 4900 block of Allen Street while she was walking home from her   
   Wendy’s restaurant    
   shift and listening to music through headphones.   
      
   The rapist approached her from behind, grabbed her by her hair and put a gun   
   to her head, the prosecutor said. The man threatened to kill her if she did   
   not do what he told her. He pulled her into some woods and forced her to   
   perform oral sex. He left,    
   stealing her wallet and cell phone, after telling her to count down from 300   
   before leaving, Sherill said.   
      
   The woman was able to direct police to where she’d been attacked, and   
   investigators found her headphones and some sugar packets she had dropped from   
   her pockets, the prosecutor told the judge.   
      
   Five days later, a 38-year-old woman told police she was jogging on the Five   
   Mile Creek Trail when she came upon a man who suddenly punched her, stuck a   
   gun in her back and dragged her into the woods.   
      
   The assailant told her he’d kill her if she resisted, Sherrill said. But she   
   grabbed him by the groin and squeezed as hard as she could, prompting him to   
   release her.   
      
   Someone else on the trail saw the man and was able to identify Jones from a   
   police photo lineup, the prosecutor said.   
      
      
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