PHOENIX – It began with a road trip between an Arizona father and his son, and it ended with the two coming back home with a two-carat diamond.

Marshall and his father, Will Barnett, went to Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas. It’s a unique place where anyone can go and dig for diamonds. Per the park’s website, it is one of the only diamond-producing sites in the world where members of the public can search for diamonds in their original volcanic source. Will has a connection to Arkansas: he grew up out there, and his uncle was an employee with Arkansas State Park.

“I scraped my bucket off the top, and Marshall is digging for China, man,” said Will. “He’s going as deep as he can, so we carried both of our buckets up to the wash center.”

The two love sifting dirt for treasure, but this time, the dirt seemed different.

“Flip it over and look for maybe 10 seconds, and I go ‘hey Marshall, you should come take a look. There might be a diamond in this screen,’” Will recounted. “Not sure, but it looked different than anything we’d seen.”

The two later took a shiny rock up to the diamond identification center.

“They finally call us back, and the park superintendent let us know it was a 2.03 carat Arkansas diamond. Second largest diamond in the park that year,” Will said. “We’re talking, like, 0.0002% chance of finding one that big, so we definitely played the lottery on the way home that day too!”

For Will and his son, the trip was a bonding experience that is as rare as the diamond they found.

“There’s beauty to be found, as long as you’re open-minded enough to find it,”: Will said. He also stressed that people don’t have to drive to Arkansas to find treasure, as they can also be found in the Grand Canyon State.

As for the park itself, their website notes a rather special connection it has to Arizona: the first person to buy a ticket at the then-newly-opened Visitor Information Center on June 2, 1979 was a Black Canyon City man named James Williamson. Williamson also found a 5.08 carat brown diamond, and became the first person to register a find at the facility.

ROGERS, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — The Natural State’s first LEGO Store is coming to Northwest Arkansas.

The store will open its Rogers location at the Pinnacle Hills Promenade on Friday, August 16, according to a news release from the company.

“The LEGO Store at Pinnacle Hills will deliver unforgettable immersive experiences with the widest range of LEGO products, hands-on play opportunities for our visitors, exclusive promotions, and fun events held in-store,” Travis Blue, vice president of Americas and EMEA brand retail stores, said in the release.

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LEGO said it will offer “immersive experiences” including a mystery mural LEGO building activity and displays from the Arkansas and Springfield LEGO Users Group.

Here are the store’s hours:

• Monday: 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.

• Tuesday: 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.

• Wednesday: 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.

• Thursday: 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.

• Friday: 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.

• Saturday: 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.

• Sunday: 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.

The store will feature year-round fixtures such as the “Build a Minifigure Tower” and the “Pick & Build Wall”.

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An Arkansas police officer has been fired after video shows him allegedly beating a man handcuffed in the back of a patrol car.

In a statement posted to social media Aug. 9, the Jonesboro Police Department said it had received a complaint of an incident involving the officer of a “serious nature” from the previous evening.

“Following an internal review of the incident, it was determined that the officer involved, Joseph Harris, should be terminated effective immediately,” Jonesboro police said in the statement.

Jonesboro is located in northeast Arkansas, and is about 70 miles from Memphis, Tennessee.

Jonesboro police posted video of the incident online, which shows Harris allegedly beating a man who was handcuffed and sitting detained in the back of his patrol car wearing what looks like a hospital gown.

Jonesboro Police Chief Rick Elliott told local station KAIT he had been communicating with the FBI, and that the Little Rock office had opened a case regarding the incident.

USA TODAY has reached out to Jonesboro police for more information.

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Video shows handcuffed man physically assaulted by police officer

In the video posted by the Jonesboro Police Department, the man can be heard telling officers he had swallowed a bag of fentanyl the day before, and thinks he will die unless he’s taken back to a hospital.

At one point, the video shows the man unbuckling his seatbelt and laying down in the back seat, before an officer opens the door and begins punching and elbowing the man’s head repeatedly.

Another officer, who police have not identified, checks on the man and asks if he is alright, but the man is unresponsive after the assault. The officer then closes the car door by his feet.

The first officer returns and seemingly rubs him roughly in the chest with a tool, which causes the man to twist and groan, and then closes the door on his head.

The car then begins to drive as the man, still laying down, continues to yell and groan in the back seat.

Harris previously cited for use of force

This is not the first time Harris has faced consequences for using force.

About two years ago, CNN reported that he received a 20-hour suspension without pay and further training from the police department for excessive force, Sally Smith, a public information officer with the Jonesboro Police Department, said.

He was additionally named in a wrongful death lawsuit filed in June, Smith told CNN.