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United Press International - Friday, October 1, 1999
Pulaski County Prosecuting Attorney Larry Jegley said Timothy Wayne Tillman is suspected of exposing both men and women to HIV, but has not been charged in the additional cases. Jegley said Tillman has been known to use aliases when meeting others.
Prosecutors Thursday issued a warrant for Tillman for jumping bail, a Class D felony. Tillman had been ordered to stay home when he was not working.
He is suspected of leaving his parent's home Wednesday morning without authorization. When a worker from Sentinel Monitoring called his home 24 hours later, his mother said she did not know where he was, according to an affidavit filed by prosecutors.
Pulaski County sheriff's spokesman John Rehrauer said Tillman apparently cut the monitoring device strapped to his ankle. Jegley told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, "We obviously have concerns about the public health and safety."
Tillman, who according to court records received his law license last April, ran afoul of a 10-year-old Arkansas law that makes it a felony to knowingly expose others to HIV.
Another law also passed in 1989 requires that those who test positive for HIV notify the state Health Department
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