Suspect detained in ex-agent’s death

PERRYVILLE - Authorities have detained a suspect in the Sunday fatal shooting of a former drug task force agent in rural Perry County, Arkansas State Police spokesman Bill Sadler said.

Perry County sheriff ’s deputies responded to a shooting at 1:50 a.m. Sunday at Baylor House Road and Arkansas 113 in the southeast corner of the county. They found the body of Michael Steele, 48.

Sadler said the county asked agents from the state police’s Criminal Investigation Division to investigate the shooting.

Sheriff’s office and county jail employees would not identify the suspect.

Steele was a drug task force agent in Lawrence County in the early 2000s, Lawrence County Sheriff Jody Dotson said. He left when the office was disbanded because of a lack of funding in the mid-2000s, Dotson said.

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Arkansas, Pages 14 on 02/25/2014

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