Eleven guns and nearly 60 spent bullet casings were found in the home of convicted felon Billy Monroe Jones after deputies and officers were ambushed last week, according to police.
Among the weapons found was a Bushmaster XM15 semi-automatic assault-style rifle believed to have been used Aug. 10 to kill Deputy Bill Cooper, wound Hackett Police Chief Darrell Spells and Greenwood police dog Kina, and endanger others at the scene.
Jones, 34, has been charged in Sebastian County Circuit Court with one count of capital murder, 10 counts of attempted capital murder, one count of injuring an animal used in law enforcement and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
He pleaded innocent to the charges Wednesday.
The search warrant executed Aug. 10 at Jones' home at 4722 Arkansas 253 by Arkansas State Police investigators and an agent with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said officers found the Bushmaster, two 12-gauge shotguns, five handguns and three .22-caliber rifles.
Notes on items seized in the search showed that most of the weapons were loaded with bullets in the chambers ready to fire.
Also found in the mobile home were a ballistic vest, a fixed-blade knife, loaded rifle and pistol magazines and several containers of loose ammunition, according to the warrant.
Sheriff's deputies and officers from Greenwood, Barling and Hackett came under fire when they responded to a disturbance call on the morning of Aug. 10. Cooper was fatally shot in the neck and a bullet grazed Spells' temple.
Kina was hit twice by bullets as she sat in a patrol car.
Officers and deputies also came under fire as they tried to remove Cooper and Spells from the line of fire and move civilians away from the from danger.
Officers and deputies went to Jones' house after Jones had failed to appear at a Circuit Court hearing to plead to a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
That case grew out of his arrest in February after a Greenwood police officer pulled Jones over for speeding, according to a police report. When the officer asked if he had any weapons, Jones pulled a loaded .40-caliber Glock handgun from inside his coveralls.
Jones was barred from owning a weapon since he pleaded guilty to a 2007 felony charge of manufacturing marijuana.
State Desk on 08/19/2016