FORT SMITH - On October Wednesday, an investigator with the Fort Smith Police Department received surveillance footage from two local schools showing a possible suspect vehicle involved in a rash of criminal mischief complaints involving windows being shot out with a pellet or BB gun.
During the early afternoon, a school resource officer located the suspect vehicle parked at a pawn shop located at the corner of South 21st and Dodson Avenue.
Officers set up surveillance on the vehicle and observed a man approach the vehicle after leaving the pawn shop. The resource officer and an investigator stopped the man, who was identified as twenty-one-year-old Airek Riggins.
Riggins voluntarily told the officers two BB gun pistols were inside his vehicle and wanted them to know the handguns were not real. Riggins was brought to the police department for an interview.
At the conclusion of the interview, investigators located Riggins’ brother, twenty-year-old ReoDel Riggins, and a friend, twenty-year-old Derek Thomason.
Both men were brought to the police department for interviews. At the conclusion of interviews, all three men were arrested on suspicion of Felony – Criminal Mischief 1st Degree and are currently being held at the Sebastian County Detention Center on a $5,000.00 bond.
Police believe the three men are responsible for at least forty-two acts of criminal mischief involving BB guns.
