Alma Man Pleads Not Guilty To Kidnapping/Burglary/Theft Charges

Terry Lee Blackshear of Alma has pleaded not guilty to residential burglary, theft of proper- ty and kidnapping.  Ft. Smith Police were informed by Deanna Sharum, Blackshear's ex-girl- friend, that on April 25 Blackshear, 32, broke into her house.  Sharum and Brittany Cole, a friend, had been asleep when he entered the residence.  Blackshear refused to leave.  However, after taking cellphones and keys belonging to the women, he left, driving off in Sharum's car.

After making a police report, Sharum and Cole were walking, heading to Van Buren, when they stopped on Midland Blvd at a store and used the phone to call Blackshear.  The police report states that she told him she wouldn't press charges if he would return her car.  He refused.  Later, as the women were walking on Midland Bridge, Blackshear, holding a screwdriver, pulled up and told them to get into the vehicle.  Sharum refused to until he returned her keys and phone and discarded the screwdriver.  She drove him to his mother's house and dropped him off.

Blackshear faces 5-20 years in prison for residential burglary, a Class B felony.  Theft of property is a Class D felony punishable by a prison term of up to six years.

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