Jonesboro, AR – Jonesboro Right Now – A Jonesboro woman is facing a felony charge after police said she stabbed another woman in the chest during a fight over the weekend.
On Oct. 25, Jonesboro police officers responded to a reported stabbing in the 500 block of Belt Street. Upon arrival, they found a female victim suffering from a stab wound to her chest.
According to a probable cause affidavit, witnesses told officers that the victim was in a physical fight with another woman. During the fight, a third woman, identified as 30-year-old Sydnee Danielle Mathis, got a knife out and stabbed the victim. The victim required emergency surgical intervention as a result of the injury.
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The inmate roster for the Craighead County Detention Center show Mathis was arrested Oct. 26 by Jonesboro police. She appeared before District Judge David Boling two days later, who found probable cause to charge her with first-degree battery, a class B felony.
Mathis is being held on a $100,000 cash/surety bond, with the conditions she have no contact with the victims in the case and wear a GPS ankle monitor upon release. Her next scheduled court appearance is Dec. 16.
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