A man, whose listed address is Yellville, Ark., has been arrested on kidnapping and six other charges in Stone County.
The court documents said the charges stem from an incident that occurred on Friday, July 15, when the Mountain View Police Department received a call from Walmart informing the department that a female was inside the restroom in the store claiming that she had been abducted.
The suspect, Chipper Wade Statum (pictured below), 23, was waiting on the female victim to come out of the restroom, but had left just before police arrived and was preparing to exit the store when authorities took him into custody, according to the arrest affidavit.
The female told authorities what had happened to her, and how and why she was kidnapped.
During an argument, her estranged boyfriend, identified in the court documents as Statum, had forced her into his vehicle to go with him to Batesville to pick up his pay check from a chicken processing plant.
In refusing to go with Statum at first, the female was subjected to aggravated assault including the suspect choking her until she lost consciousness, the court information said.
During the series of events leading to her hiding in the Walmart restroom, the female said she suffered personal injuries when Statum kicked her, struck her in the head, pulled a handful of hair from her head, and choked her.
Statum is also accused of terroristic threatening when he apparently told the victim that he was going to “slit her throat and throw her out of the car going 80 miles per hour,” according to the affidavit. He had apparently already threatened to stab her with a knife.
The court information said Statum told the victim “good luck calling for help because I have broken your phone, and threw it into the woods.”

Authorities have charged Statum with three felonies: kidnapping, aggravated assault on a household member, and terroristic threatening. Among the four misdemeanors were domestic battery in the third degree, violation of an order of protection, and interference with emergency communications in the first degree.
Statum’s bond was set at $300,000.
Image via Stone County Sheriff’s Department
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