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Police Link Man To Voyeurism FAYETTEVILLE - Police arrested an Abercrombie & Fitch employee Wednesdayafter he admitted taking photographs of customers while they changed clothes, according to an arrest report.

Arvis Trey Harper, 23, of 6401 S.W. Mallet Road in Bentonville faces a felony charge in connection with video voyeurism.

Officers were called to Abercrombie & Fitch in the Northwest Arkansas Mall just before 5 p.m. Wednesday.

A woman told police she was trying on a bathing suit when she noticed a phone being held under the stall, according to the report.

The woman said two other customers in the store denied taking the photo, according to the report. She told policeshe confronted Harper and he admitted taking her photograph.

He told police he saw her picking out bikinis, thought she was attractive and wanted photos of her, according to the report. He deleted the photos because he “got caught and was scared,” according to the report.

Detectives said Harper admitted photographing three girls in the changing rooms Wednesday. He was being held Thursday without bond in the Washington County Detention Center.

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Woman Attacked

A Missouri man faces felony charges after police said he broke into a woman’s homeand choked her.

Washington County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested Donald G.

Stringfield, 24, of 30049Binder Road in Green Ridgein connection with felony aggravated assault, aggravated residential burglary, seconddegree battery and first-degree criminal mischief.

Deputies, assisted by Prairie Grove police, went to 405 S.

West Ave. Apt. D1 in Lincoln for a report of a home invasion around 12:30 a.m. Thursday, according to an arrest report.

Wanda Bentley, 63, told investigators she was getting in the shower when she heard someone yell for help, according to the report.

Deputies said Stringfield forced his way into Bentley’s locked apartment and told her to call 911.

Bentley went to her room to get dressed when Stringfield grabbed her and began to choke her, according to the report.

Three neighbors heard Bentley yell for help, went to check on her and saw Stringfield holding Bentley in a “choke hold,” according to the report.

Bentley said she thought Stringfield was going to choke her “to death,” deputies said. Stringfield was arrestedoutside the apartment.

Detectives said Stringfield told them he took methamphetamine prior to the assault.

Stringfield was in the Washington County Detention Center without bond Thursday.

Capital Murder Trial Reset FAYETTEVILLE - The capital murder trial of Eric Thomas Frankenhauser has been resetto Dec. 2 to allow the defense more time for a second mental examination.

Frankenhauser, 41, Frankenhauser is charged in connection with capital murder in the August death of Jessica Stewart, a 39-year-old Fayetteville woman. He also is charged in connection with first-degree battery.

If convicted, Frankenhauser faces life in prison without the possibility of parole, or the death penalty.

News, Pages 3 on 06/21/2013

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