Rodney Malloy
Records show that 40-year-old Rodney Evern Malloy has lived a somewhat nomadic life.
He was in Baxter County in 2020 at least long enough to have charges filed against him in two criminal cases.
Malloy appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday, pled guilty to his charges and was sentenced to eight years in prison.
In addition, Malloy has had charges filed against him in a number of other Arkansas Counties.
Court records also show Malloy has been accused of breaking the law in North Carolina, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas and Tennessee.
According to the North Carolina Sex Offender Registry, Malloy has allegedly committed a total of at least 17 crimes in various states.
His Arkansas charges range from sexual assault to possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia, to terroristic threatening, domestic battery, breaking or entering and theft of property.
In early April 2005 Malloy was convicted on a fourth degree sexual assault charge in Benton County in the northwest corner of Arkansas. The conviction required him to register as a sex offender.
In early January 2018, Malloy was picked up in Kershaw County, South Carolina on a warrant issued by the Arkansas Parole Board. He was found with another man who had also allegedly committed crimes in a number of states.
When Malloy and the other man were arrested, lawmen also founda a 1997 Honda Accord that had been reported stolen in Oklahoma.
A number of his Arkansas charges stem from violations of various rules and regulations related to the sex offender registration process.
In Baxter County, Malloy is currently charged with violating sex offender registration requirements and with being involved with three other inmates in a “fishing trip” inside the Baxter County Detention Center.
According to the probable cause affidavit, Malloy and the other inmates were gathered in the visitation area of the jail on April 28 last year allegedly to use law books that are made available to prisoners.
The space is adjacent to the booking area and separated by a wall with a piece of glass in which there is a hole large enough for someone to get an arm through.
The inmates used hooks fashioned out of wire and line made from pieces of trash bags to attempt to hook another inmate’s property bag that had not been put in a storage bin.
They were successful in hooking the bag when no member of the jail staff was present and pulled it to the window where they went through it and allegedly took two knives
When the knives were discovered missing from the property bag, surveillance video was reviewed and the inmates were seen on their fishing trip.
In addition to the knives, their catch included more charges.
Each of the inmates was charged with furnishing, possessing or using prohibited articles in the jail, impairing the operation of a vital public facility and misdemeanor counts of theft of property and carrying a weapon.
One of the knives was found in a sleeping mat belonging to one of the fishermen and one in an empty deodorant applicator.
Jailers also recovered wire that had been shaped into “fish hooks.”
In addition to Malloy, the inmates involved in the fishing expedition were Christian Nozar, Joshua Dunn, and Travis Armistead.
Dunn and Armistead have already pled to the charges against them. The state dismissed charges of furnishing, possessing or using prohibited articles in the jail and impairing operation of a vital public facility against Dunn. He was given county jail time on the remaining misdemeanor charges.
The furnishing charge was dismissed against Armistead and he pled guilty to the remaining “fishing trip” charges and to those in several other cases and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
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