April 3, 2025
On Wednesday, April 2, 2025, Arkansas State Police arrested Princeton Lemar Settles, 37, of Jacksonville, in connection with the off-duty death of Jefferson County Sheriff’s Deputy Justin Tomlinson.
Tomlinson, 31, from Little Rock, died on August 5, 2023, in a motorcycle wreck in Jacksonville.
Settles was driving a 2005 Ford Explorer when he crossed the center line on Highway 294 near Park Drive and struck Tomlinson’s 2007 Yamaha motorcycle. Tomlinson was off duty at the time of the accident.
Settles has been charged with Felony Negligent Homicide and was transported to the Pulaski County Detention Center for booking.