Rodney Jones
Update at 4:45 p.m.: According to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Jones was actually on parole in Midland (and not in prison) at the time he was sent to the Dallas Transitional Center in February.
Original post at 12:14 p.m.: A 46-year-old felon jailed in February on charges he attacked and robbed a woman in Uptown now faces an additional charge for allegedly carjacking a man outside the Frank Crowley courthouse earlier that same night, according to police documents.
Dallas police officers arrested Rodney Jones in Uptown just before 8 p.m. on February 9 as he attacked a woman who had just exited the Cityplace DART station. Police also suspected him in an earlier Uptown robbery at knifepoint, according to police.
But it seems Jones, who was released from a Midland prison just one day prior, began his crime spree earlier that night when he ?became belligerent,? fled the Dallas Transitional Center and removed an electronic monitoring device from his ankle, the documents said.
About 6:30 p.m., a 43-year-old man was confronted from behind on the south side of the courthouse. ?The attacker, believed to be Jones, told him to, ?Take me to your car or I?m going to kill you,? he told police.
Jones held an object to the man that the victim thought was a handgun.
Police said Jones robbed the man of $23 and forced him to lead him to his car in the ACE parking garage across North Riverfront Boulevard, police said. He made the victim sit in the passenger seat and as he started the car, Jones told the man, ?that he would have to kill him and 900 people,? the documents said.
The man noticed Jones had a stick with a jagged end in his lap. It appears that is what the victim earlier thought was a gun.
As Jones pulled up to the exit gate, the victim tried to escape and a struggle ensued, the documents said. The victim was able to break free and ran to the Lew Sterrett Justice Center, where he alerted a Dallas County sheriff?s deputy and the investigation began.
Three days later, on February 12, the sheriff?s department learned that the stolen vehicle had been recovered in Dallas. Three days after that the sheriff?s department, ?retrieved information via the Dallas Morning News, that Dallas Police Department had arrested a person for Aggravated Robbery in the area of the City Place DART Station on February 10,? the documents said.
The arrested man in the News report matched the description of the carjacking suspect. The robberies also occurred not far from where the stolen car was recovered, the documents said.
Later in February, the carjacking victim identified Jones as his attacker from a photograph lineup. Jones remains in the Lew Sterrett Justice Center, where his bail is set at $300,000 and he is also being held on a parole violation.
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