From the desk of Sheriff Scott Bradley

On February 8th, 2016, Deputies from the Van Buren County Sheriff's Office, received a call of a stolen vehicle from Pope County.  It was reported that Pope County had been in a high speed chase with a stolen Chevrolet Camaro and the vehicle, driven by a black male possibly armed with a automatic rifle, my be heading into Van Buren County on State Highway 16 East.   Van Buren County deputies, located the vehicle at the Crabtree 4 Square Church.  Deputies then seen the suspect running behind the church near a substation and found him lying in the grass at the substation. The black male was arrested, and turned over to Pope County deputies along with the vehicle.