A busy agenda and vocal community participation marked Monday evening’s Texarkana, Arkansas City Council meeting, where topics ranged from traffic safety and neighborhood livability to controversial zoning changes. The meeting opened with citizen recognition and community pride, including remarks from…
Texarkana’s implementation of license plate reader cameras has proven to be an effective tool in law enforcement over the past 18 months. With around 20 cameras strategically placed around the city since June 2023, local authorities have achieved notable successes,…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A man who bilked about $412,000 from a Texarkana construction company while performing contract work and as an employee pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to wire fraud. Dezmann Joseph Rice pleaded guilty to one of six counts of…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A federal inmate was sentenced to more than eight additional years in prison Wednesday for having his wife bring him methamphetamine hidden in a condom. Jimmy Barrientos, 38, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robert Schroeder III during a…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A Texas appellate court has upheld a 50-year sentence for a Hooks, Texas, man who armed himself with guns and a sword before driving around Texarkana, searching for a cop to kill, while livestreaming on Facebook in 2020. Aaron…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A man accused of fatally shooting an employee of a Family Dollar Store in Maud, Texas, last month was formally indicted Thursday for capital murder. Keshawn Deiron Wickware, 27, allegedly shot the employee in the face after pointing a…
LAFAYETTE COUNTY, Ark–A Lafayette County man has been arrested for the alleged sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl in October. Floyd Morgan, 60, is accused of forcing himself on the girl while at a residence in Stamps, Ark., according to…
On Sunday, April 6, 2025, at approximately 7:47 PM, officers from the Texarkana Arkansas Police Department (TAPD) responded to a major accident in the 100 block of Pinehurst Street. The 911 dispatch call notes indicated that a vehicle had collided…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A Texarkana man arrested last week after allegedly leaving the scene after hitting a pedestrian in a church parking lot intentionally ran the man down, according to court records filed Friday. Patrick Jerome Cridell Jr., 32, allegedly “swerved” a…
TEXARKANA, Texas – A Hooks man who sold fake prescription pills containing fentanyl has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison, announced Eastern District of Texas Acting U.S. Attorney Abe McGlothin, Jr. Henry Wayne Milligan, 28, pleaded guilty to…
TEXARKANA, Texas–Four people are facing charges in the armed robbery of a woman reportedly targeted after the woman styling her hair noticed she was carrying a large sum of cash. The alleged victim told police after the robbery that she…
Monday afternoon Texarkana, Texas Police arrested 32 year old Patrick Cridell, Jr. for Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon in connection with a hit and run crash that happened Sunday night. According to police detectives used video from multiple cameras…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A man accused of vandalizing three Tesla vehicles parked at Texarkana area businesses last week allegedly scratched “Elon” and punctured the tires on two cars while ramming a third Tesla with a mini four-wheeler. Demarkeyun Marquize Cox, 33, was…
TEXARKANA, Ark–Circuit Judge Brent Haltom on Wednesday ordered jail time for a Pine Bluff, Ark., lawyer found in contempt of court after failing to show for a client’s jury trial Monday afternoon. Judge Haltom, who is one of three circuit…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A Texarkana, Texas, man accused of having sex with a 15-year-old Nashville, Ark., girl who was reported missing in February has been charged in Bowie County with unlawful restraint. Alba Wuilian Adrian Nunez, 22, allegedly traveled to Nashville, Ark.,…
