BENTONVILLE, Ark., Feb. 4 (UPI) -- A man convicted as a teen in a 1998 school shooting spree in Arkansas and later on drug and weapons charges, was being held Monday on new marijuana charges.
Benton County Jail administrators said Mitchell Johnson, 23, who was awaiting sentencing after being convicted last Tuesday in Fayetteville on federal charges for possessing a gun while using marijuana, was being held in Bentonville Monday after police allegedly found more marijuana on his person this past weekend, KAIT-TV in Jonesboro, Ark., reported Monday.
Authorities had charged Johnson with the weapons and drug counts after police found him with a gun and marijuana while investigating the theft and fraudulent use of a credit card at the gas station where he worked -- an investigation not involving him, authorities said.
Johnson also was convicted in the 1998 shootings at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro. Johnson, 13 at the time, and an 11-year-old friend, Andrew Golden, killed four students and a teacher, and wounded 10 other people.
