ASHDOWN, Ark.–A man from Wake Village, Texas, just outside Texarkana, was allegedly asleep at the wheel at an Ashdown, Arkansas, convenience store’s gas pumps when approached by police on New Year’s Eve. When a reportedly sleeping Jeremia Lin Rothmeyer, 40,…
A man who allegedly escaped from the Federal Correctional Institution in Texarkana on New Years Day last year pleaded not guilty the charge on Thursday. Ramon Benjamin Fernandez, 30, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge James Boone Baxter with an interpreter…
Two people are dead after an early morning single vehicle crash on State Line Ave. in Texarkana, Ark. The car was northbound when it left the roadway flipped and caught fire. The crash happened around 3 a.m. Monday morning. Both…
NEW BOSTON, Texas–During two days of pretrial hearings in the case of a Texarkana man accused of strangling his girlfriend to death in 2021, the state argued for high security, the disruptive defendant was given a new lawyer and the…
HOPE, Arkansas–Felony charges have been filed in Hempstead County against a man who allegedly threatened family members with a gun during a dispute over a Christmas tree last month. Michael Dion Ballance, 61, allegedly began arguing with a female family…
On December 29, 2022, Investigators with the Bi-State Narcotics Task Force, executed a narcotics search warrant in the 400 block of Ferguson Street in Texarkana, Arkansas. The search warrant was the result of a several months-long investigations at the location.…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A former correctional officer accused of accepting money in exchange for contraband at the Telford Unit in New Boston entered not guilty pleas to a list of felony charges on Tuesday at a hearing in Texarkana. Ki-Jona Hayvin Wells,…
LITTLE RIVER COUNTY, Ark.–A man who was the subject of reckless driving calls from two counties reportedly crashed through a locked gate with four kids in pajamas in the backseat. David Craig Parson, 30, was charged with felony driving while…
TEXARKANA, Ark.–An 18-year-old murder suspect was denied a reduction of his half-a-million dollar bond last week by a judge in Miller County. Jamauri Montavious Davis is accused in the fatal Dec. 4 shooting of 19-year-old Keeunta Gilliam. The Texarkana Arkansas…
The Criminal Investigation Division of the Texarkana Arkansas Police Department has issued a warrant for the arrest of Tarus Walker 24 years old B/M 5’05 170 lbs. Walker is wanted for Capital Murder and Possession of a Firearm by Certain…
NEW BOSTON, Texas–A former correctional officer has been arrested on a bribery charge involving another former prison employee and an inmate of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Candra Jimese Gray, 36, allegedly resigned from her job as an officer…
TEXARKANA, Texas–Three men were arrested last week for agreeing to meet and pay for sex with a state police investigator posing online as a 15-year-old in Texarkana. Special agents with the criminal investigation division of the Texas Department of Public…
NEW BOSTON, Texas–A woman whose 11-month-old son was beaten to death by her boyfriend last year was sentenced to 60 years in prison on Thursday for failing to protect him and his 4-year-old sister. Christy Wedgeworth, 25, was found guilty…
On Friday, December 9 Skaggs Country Store, located at 3070 U.S. Highway 82w New Boston, TX was the victim of a large scale fuel theft. According to Bowie County Sheriff’s Office the suspect(s) targeted the store in the early hours…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A Texarkana man has been charged with a felony for allegedly assaulting his 79-year-old father in a local nursing facility where he was receiving hospice care. Jeffery Scott Huggins, 49, who has a history of alcohol-related arrests, reportedly smelled…
