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10 January 28, 2013 Arkansas Business
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know something, but it was
hard to sort fact from fiction
with him,” she said.
Brawner’s Status
When Brawner first started
talking about his knowledge of
the Glasgow case, he had been
paroled after
serving 202
days, most
of it in prison
boot camp,
for his role in
the attempted
Jon
Brawner
kidnapping
of a Conway
County busi-
nessman named Jim Daven on
July 31, 2009.
Brawner pleaded guilty to
robbery and was sentenced to
20 years with 10 years of it suspended.
The Conway County
Sheriff’s Department’s investigation
concluded that he enlisted
two co-workers from Cudd
Energy Services in Conway
to kidnap Daven, owner of a
commodities brokerage where
Brawner had worked, with
the intention of forcing him
to transfer millions of dollars
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John Glasgow’s family worked hard to find the missing CFO, including offering a reward. [PHOTO BY MICHAEL PIRNIQUE]
from client accounts to offshore
accounts set up by Brawner.
One of Brawner’s henchmen,
J.C. Chapman, was fatally
shot by Daven’s stepson during
the attempted kidnapping. The
other, David Newkirk, is serving
a 20-year sentence for attempted
capital murder and attempted
kidnapping and isn’t eligible
for parole for seven more years.
In October 2010, four months
after being paroled, Brawner
was arrested for stalking his exwife,
who testified that he had
told her about helping to bury
a body. After being convicted,
Brawner started trying to use
his claimed knowledge of the
Glasgow case to improve his
situation.
So far, it hasn’t worked.
“He maintains even today
that he has information” concerning
the Glasgow case,
Brawner’s attorney, Frank
Shaw of Conway, told Arkansas
Business last week. Brawner
passed an Arkansas State Police
polygraph exam concerning
the location he identified, Shaw
said, but after the archeological
search of the about 2 acres
of bean field came up empty,
“some in law enforcement
believe him and some are skeptical.”
No immunity or plea bargains
were offered to Brawner
in connection with the Glasgow
case, Shaw said, “and that
stalled things.”
Brawner was sentenced to 10
years for the stalking conviction,
which was a violation of
his parole and the terms of his
suspended sentence on the robbery
conviction for the Daven
kidnapping attempt. The stalking
conviction is under appeal,
but in December, Brawner was
returned briefly to Conway
County, where he came away
with an additional sentence of
96 months.
“He’s serving his sentence
and being very patient, but he
wants out as soon as possible
— like everyone else in prison,”
said Shaw, who said anything
else he knows about the
Glasgow case is protected by
attorney-client privilege.
The Arkansas Department
of Correction website shows
Brawner’s parole eligibility date
as March 20, but department
spokeswoman Shea Wilson
said a delay in getting paperwork
on the additional sentence
out of Conway County
had kept the department from
updating Brawner’s status.
Exactly when he might be eligible
for parole was uncertain,
Wilson said.
In the meantime, Brawner
has had no disciplinary violations
during his incarceration.
His work assignment is as a barber
for other inmates. n