FAYETTEVILLE -- Jo Lynn Jackson is facing a felony charge for claiming a Washington County jailer sexually assaulted her during one of her recent stays at the facility.
Jackson, 54, is charged with filing a false police report. Arraignment is set for Wednesday in Washington County Circuit Court.
Jackson claimed Deputy Elisabeth Walter made her perform an oral sex act behind a shower curtain during a nighttime check, according to court documents.
Investigators watched videos from the cell block from the evenings Walter worked and Jackson was a detainee and found Walter never went into the shower area with Jackson.
Walter denied any wrongdoing and passed a lie detector test.
Jackson killed a city worker in 2011 in Fayetteville and collected three charges of driving while intoxicated in less than three months last summer, two while free on bond.
She was arrested June 10, 2014, at a Sonic Drive-In after hitting a trash can. Police found a wine bottle in her car.
She was arrested Aug. 10, 2014, after she hit several poles and shopping carts in the parking lot of a Walmart store. She told police she drank half of a bottle of wine and took hydrocodone and Ativan, according to an arrest report. Jackson was given nine tries to take a breath test, but was unable to give a sample.
Jackson was arrested Aug. 24, 2014, after an off-duty police officer saw her driving erratically on North College Avenue. Police found an open, single-serve bottle of Sutter Home wine in the console and Jackson tested at more than twice the legal limit.
Jackson served nine months in jail for two DWI convictions. She was released in May.
Jackson was arrested June 24 for reckless burning, public intoxication and violating terms of her probation after police said she set a fire in her driveway. She's in jail on those charges.
Jackson pleaded guilty in 2012 in Washington County Circuit Court to misdemeanor negligent homicide and third-degree battery after hitting three men in a construction zone.
Jackie Luper of West Fork died and Bradley Robbins, 34, of Farmington, and Bret Horn, 30, of Springdale were injured in September 2011 when Jackson drove into a construction zone in front of Butterfield Trail Village on Joyce Boulevard.
Jackson served six months in the Washington County Detention Center and was given one-year probation.
The misdemeanor negligent homicide charge didn't contain a driving while intoxicated element.
NW News on 07/17/2015