Justice Of The Peace Arrested

John Kent Spradlin, a Sebastian County Justice of the Peace, was arrested early Tuesday morning.  According to a news release from the Sebastian County Prosecuting Attorney's Office, Spradlin, 59, was arrested on suspicion of felony, first degree terroristic threatening and felony aggravated assault on a minor family member.

Spradlin and the minor relative had gotten into an altercation earlier in the evening, after which the relative filed a domestic battery report against him.  According to jail records, Spradlin bonded out of the Sebastian County Adult Detention Center at 12:28 a.m. Tuesday.  He has a court date set for Thursday, July 9th.

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