A 25-year-old man in Jonesboro, Arkansas, faces felony charges after threatening to harm a woman and her family when she asked him to leave her home. The woman had allowed him to stay overnight following an argument with his housemates. Authorities arrested him on Thursday after finding him still at the residence.
Tarvon Chalmers met the woman on Facebook last July, and they remained friends. On Monday, after Chalmers argued with his housemates and lost his housing, she allowed him to spend the night out of sympathy, according to a probable cause affidavit from the Jonesboro Police Department. By Thursday, he had not left despite her requests. When informed he had to go, Chalmers demanded $100 to depart or threatened to damage her property and force her to call police, the affidavit states. He escalated by saying he would shoot her and her family, beat her, and leave her bloody in front of her young child. Fearing for her safety, the woman took her child to school, called police from work, but returned home. Officers arrived to find Chalmers on the couch with a duffel bag by the door. He yelled, 'IM LEAVING,' grabbed the bag, and was arrested. A bag of marijuana was found on him. Jail records show Chalmers charged with felony first-degree terroristic threatening, plus misdemeanor criminal trespassing and possession. He was booked into the Craighead County Detention Center with $15,000 bail and a no-contact order. He is due in court on May 18.