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Florida Deputies Arrest Arkansas Capital Murder Suspect After Two-Month Probe

Investigators report an active case with no disclosed motive, with potential for additional arrests.

Overview

  • Deputies arrested 68-year-old Mark Brown around 3 p.m. Wednesday on North Shell Road in DeLand, according to officials.
  • Brown is held at the Volusia County Jail without bond on a capital murder warrant issued by Arkansas authorities.
  • He is charged in the July shooting death of 69-year-old Mona Sloop in Searcy County, Arkansas.
  • Searcy County deputies found Sloop’s body on July 29 at a home on Shady Grove Road and said she had been dead for an unknown period.
  • Authorities have not disclosed a motive or any prior relationship between Brown and Sloop, and they say additional arrests are possible.