Austin McCollum

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Austin McCollum was questioned about an alleged violation of an order of protection involving his estranged wife, Reagan.

In this police interrogation, he discusses supervised visits with his children and his presence near a school and other locations.

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Moore is running against former council member Bill Adams, while Reach was facing Liz Estes and Tanya Yost for city clerk.

The other sort of political mess involved the latest from the current candidate for Benton County Judge, Austin McCollum, who was soon to be single and ready to mingle after he posted $157,500 in bonds to check out of the county's Graybar Grotto after his latest arrest last week over suspicion of sexism.

stalking his estranged wife and loitering around his children's daycare.

Prosecutors argued that the former state representative she had his $10,000 bond he was free on from his August 1st blue light limo ride revoked in order to assure the safety of his spouse, who had a two-year order of protection from him after the arrest, which she said was the culmination of a pattern of abuse.

When you break it down, one of the big problems we have in Arkansas, as far as I see it, is that the Republican Party of Arkansas is very monolithic in the sense that there's not a ton of competition.

Most places in Arkansas, Austin McCollum right now in Bentonville or in Benton County rather is running for county judge.

He has no opponent.

Just got arrested again yesterday.

This is not paddle brain.

Go ahead, Dino.

So Austin McCollum, for anyone who doesn't know, was arrested for the first time for assault against a member of his household.

Ostensibly, he was beating his wife.

This is Ozarks at Large.

A district judge has set a $150,000 cash-only bond for former state representative Austin McCollum.

McCollum was arrested in Benton County last week on suspicion of felony stalking and violating an order of protection.

District Judge Jeff Connor found probable cause to hold McCollum, though no formal charges have been filed against him.

There certainly was enough rain to go around in the minds of a few notable citizens, including the former Arkansas state representative and current Benton County judge candidate who posed for a second portrait in front of the horizontal black lines, a couple with the numbers 5 and 6 on a white background at the Benton County Biltmore.

Austin McCollum's latest trip was made possible by accusations he was stalking his soon-to-be former wife and violating, if not outright flaunting, the two-year order of protection he was served with at his last tour of the Iron Bar in August 1st, when he was accused then of three felonies after allegedly battering her.

He was ordered at the time not to have contact with his wife, the couple's children, be anywhere near her place of work, or the children's school or daycare.

McCollum would take the blue light limo ride September 29th after he was reportedly spotted paying an unannounced and definitely uninvited call on the shallow Christian school where his wife was taking a tour and was also spotted hanging around the entrance to the daycare where his children attend.

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The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that former state representative and current Republican nominee for Benton County Judge, Austin McCollum, was jailed again yesterday.

McCollum was booked Tuesday afternoon on suspicion of stalking and violating a protective order.

McCollum was released on a $10,000 bond after being arrested in early August related to accusations that he abused his wife.