Yes
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Inmate Arne Maki age 46
DV sentence
Spent 3 mos in county jail, met Gavin jones
He was friends w/Jones for 21 day period
[technical issues ]
Do you recognise this photo?
Yes, it’s Gavin Jones
Objection—no foundation for this new info
D: you helped him bail out?
Yes, I gave him 70 dollars…
D: did the sheriff OK you giving him that cash?
Yes, but he tried to make sure I wasn’t being pressured…
D: did he talk about death of Mollie Tibbetts?
Yes, but he had no emotion, was just serious…
D:
He asked what sheriff said, I told him…
D:
He told me that the sheriff knows that I’m dangerous…
D: did it stop there?
He said I killed her…The guy that’s being charged for it, I set him up…My black friend that doesn’t speak English too well, I set him up
D: what else did he tell you?
He set him up, he did not kill her
He told me he was kicked out of his house at 13, and began living in trap houses, with Dalton, nicknamed Evil
He said Adam Clark arrested Gavin Jones in the trap house for trafficking and abducting girls
D:Location?
No, but he said the sex trafficker worked with Tama Police to help abduct the girls
D
id he see Mollie in a trap?
NO
D: He didnt tell you he saw her in a basement?
Yes he did…
Saw her bound and gagged in a chair…but sex trafficker said he had to get rid of her and stabbed her…
Then set up the defendant…
I should say something, even if it’s not true…
CROSS:
Mr Maki you said the info you got was from the news, that he had a family and he didnt have a criminal record…
Did you watch any of the trial testimony?
No?
Gavin Jones told you he was kicked out of the house at 13?
Yes—
Did you know he was in state custody and then in rehab, then was in assisted living under supervision—
[during this time he was supposed to be living in traps?}
Gavin told you he agreed to steal cars for this sex trafficker? And that he got in a shoot out with police?
Yes
Was he ever charged with a shoot out:?
IDK
