TEXARKANA, Ark.–A Hope man serving 25 years in state prison for kidnapping a 12-year-old girl pleaded guilty on Monday in federal court in Texarkana to a related charge. Jonathan Tyrell Haney, 35, met the girl on the “dating focused” site…
TEXARKANA, Texas–Four men accused of operating a commercial sex operation involving more than a dozen women in the Texarkana area recently pleaded not guilty to the continuous trafficking of persons. If convicted of continuous trafficking, Rashaan Cunningham, 45, aka “Fashion,”…
TEXARKANA, Texas–Three men have been charged with felony solicitation after agreeing to pay an undercover officer with the Texarkana Texas Police Department for sex earlier this month. The female officer working undercover on Dec. 2 was approached by the men…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A Texarkana man initially charged with 41 counts of child pornography possession has pleaded guilty to four counts as part of a plea deal that spared him the possibility of a longer sentence than the 40 years he received.…
LINDEN, TX – On Tuesday, December 6, 2022, Charles Spraberry pled guilty to the offense of Capital Murder in the 5th Judicial District Court of Cass County, Texas for the deaths of John Thomas, Jr. and Jennifer Archer. Spraberry pled…
TEXARKANA, Texas–Prosecutors have asked the judge overseeing the murder case of a Texarkana man accused of killing his girlfriend to approve extra restraints and additional security officers at trial because of his allegedly “continuous aggressive and violent” conduct in the…
NEW BOSTON, Texas–A teen who shot a fellow classmate after an off-campus fight that began in the lunchroom of a Texarkana high school was sentenced to 25 years for murder on Friday by a Bowie County jury. Kamorion Lamar Meachem,…
NEW BOSTON, Texas–A teen accused of fatally shooting a fellow Texas High School student during an off-campus brawl in October 2021 is on trial this week in Bowie County. Kamorion Lamar Meachem, 19, is accused in the Oct. 25, 2021,…
NEW BOSTON, Texas–Bribery and contraband-related charges have been added to child pornography possession ones facing a former Barry Telford Unit corrections officer being held on more than $500,000 in bail in Bowie County. Ki-Jona Hayvin Wells, 25, of Idabel, Oklahoma,…
TEXARKANA, Texas–Four new defendants have been added to a case that began in the spring with the indictment of a local man who allegedly had 500 fake opioid prescription pills containing fentanyl stashed beneath his kitchen sink. At a detention…
BOWIE COUNTY, Texas–A Hooks, Texas, man is in custody for allegedly shooting at two men on Saturday who were there to repossess a vehicle. Curtis Terrell Lawson, 31, allegedly fired rounds from a black rifle at two men who were…
Texarkana, TX-The Texarkana ISD Board of Trustees approved the use of $600,000 of federal stimulus funding to provide teacher retention bonuses during their November 16, 2022, regular meeting. The federal ESSER (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief) Fund allows these…
NEW BOSTON, Texas–A jury was selected on Tuesday to decide the child sex abuse case of a Bowie County man who opted to plead guilty before testimony was to begin on Wednesday. Ronald Wayne Foster Jr., 52, took a 60-year…
NEW BOSTON, Texas–A former correctional officer is facing felony charges in Bowie County in connection with videos of child sexual abuse allegedly discovered on his phone during a search of his truck at the Barry Telford Unit of the Texas…
NEW BOSTON, Texas–After less than two hours of deliberations in a trial that began nearly a month ago, a Bowie County jury returned with a death verdict for a woman who killed a pregnant friend and kidnapped her unborn child.…
