Suspect in attack on girl back in jail

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By Susan Schrock;Mark Agee , StarTelegram Staff Writers

A man accused of entering a house and trying to sexually assault a 10-year-old Arlington girl early Saturday was rearrested Tuesday after a magistrate said he mistakenly released the man without knowing the severity of the allegations against him.

Jeffrey N. Petton, 25, of Venus was first arrested about 4 a.m. Saturday outside a southeast Arlington house, police said. The girl's father said he chased him from his house and into a neighbor's bushes where he held him at bay by bluffing that he had a gun.