FAYETTEVILLE -- A woman with a history of alcohol-related arrests who missed a court appearance in June has been arrested and is being held at the Washington County Detention Center.
Jo Lynn Jackson was scheduled to appear before Washington County Circuit Judge Joanna Taylor for a status hearing on her case June 7. Taylor ordered Jackson's bond revoked, issued an arrest warrant and set a contempt hearing for Sept. 30.
Jackson was booked into the jail about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday. Her bond is now set at $50,000. She has a July 27 arraignment date on a failure to appear charge.
Jackson, 55, is charged with filing a false police report in July 2015 in which she claimed a Washington County jailer sexually assaulted her in a shower.
Investigators have said videos from the cell block showed the jailer never went into the shower with Jackson. The jailer denied any wrongdoing and passed a lie detector test.
Jackson missed a scheduled mental examination related to the case in December, but later attended a rescheduled examination, according to court filings.
In early November, Johnson police issued a warrant for Jackson's arrest. Police said they were looking for Jackson because she didn't pay a taxi fare Oct. 4. Jackson was ordered to appear in court, but didn't show, according to police. Both charges are misdemeanors.
Jackson was arrested last summer for reckless burning, a felony; and public intoxication. Police said she set a fire in her driveway and the fire spread and threatened nearby apartments.
She was arrested three times for driving while intoxicated in 2014, twice while she was free on bond.
Jackson drove into and killed a Fayetteville city worker, Jackie Luper of West Fork, in September 2011. She drove into a city construction zone in front of Butterfield Trail Village on Joyce Boulevard, hitting Luper and injuring two other workers.
Jackson pleaded guilty in 2012 to misdemeanor negligent homicide in Luper's death. She served six months in the Washington County Detention Center and was given probation for one year.
NW News on 07/07/2016