Fayetteville man arrested Friday in connection with Springdale aggravated robbery in April

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SPRINGDALE -- Washington County Sheriff's Office deputies on Friday arrested a man Springdale police said is among three in April who broke into a woman's apartment, held a gun to her head and took her money, according to an affidavit released Saturday.

Ladarius Devon Hartaway, 23, of 1501 N. Giles Road in Fayetteville was arrested Friday in connection with aggravated residential burglary, aggravated robbery and terroristic threatening. Hartaway was at the Washington County Detention Center with a $25,000 bond Saturday.

Tessa Lake of Springdale told police she heard a knock on her window April 12 and opened her door, according to the arrest warrant affidavit. Three men rushed inside, the report said.

Police declined to release where the robbery occurred, Sgt. Jake Franklin said Saturday.

Lake said one man grabbed her by the throat and pushed her onto the couch, according to the report. The man then held a gun to her head, police said.

Hartaway wasn't wearing a mask and was recognized, according to the report. Police are investigating who the other two men are, Franklin said.

Lake yelled for her friend Tina Wolf, whom another man then forced to the floor, according to the report. The man punched Wolf on the face and yelled at her to give him money and the keys to her car, the report said.

The men took money and a cellphone and told the women not to go outside or the men would shoot them, according to the report.

Later, Hartaway messaged Lake through Facebook and said he would "kill the police or anybody that got involved, and that he had spared her," police said in the report.

Hartaway was an inmate at the Washington County Detention Center on April 17 and said he knew the women, according to the report. Hartaway said he hadn't been to the house, and later asked for an attorney, police said.

Police haven't yet interviewed Hartaway, Franklin said. The case is ongoing, he said.

Hartaway has been arrested multiple times this year in connection with offenses that include aggravated robbery and possession of a controlled substance, according to Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette archives.

The arrest warrant connected to the Springdale robbery was issued in July, according to the document.

NW News on 08/23/2015

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