Sunday at approximately 4:30 p.m. Texas Game Wardens assigned to Bowie and Cass County responded to a possible drowning at Lake Wright Patman. According to Texas Game Warden Captain Shawn Hervey, on arrival Wardens recovered the body of a white…
28-year-old Blake Beliew of Texarkana, Texas was killed in a motorcycle crash early Thursday morning in Texarkana. According to a crash report, Beliew was riding his 2008 Harley north on Olive St. when he failed to negotiate a curve and…
A 27-year-old Texarkana man was killed in in a crash with a semi-truck early Thursday morning on Interstate 49. Monte Jackson as driving north on Interstate 49 hen he struck the rear of a semi-truck trailer. He then lost control…
Kiefer Dalton Peek, 29 of Texarkana, Ark, was killed in a single vehicle crash early Wednesday morning in Texarkana. According to an Arkansas State Police fatal crash summary, Peek was traveling eastbound on Trinity Blvd. when he left the roadway…
A 28-year-old Texarkana man who was caught nude from the waist down in the bedroom closet of a 14-year-old girl by her mother in 2019 was sentenced this week to 15 years in prison. Johnny Ray Shanklin pleaded guilty to…
A Texarkana man pleaded guilty Tuesday to intoxication manslaughter and intoxication assault in connection with a May 1, 2020, crash that ended one life and seriously injured another. Kendrick Aaron Sauls, 22, has requested that a jury determine his sentence.…
A trial connected to the death of a Texarkana man who was killed in 2012 was set for jury selection Monday in January 2022. Alana Leigh Coleman, 39, appeared from the Bowie County jail via video for a hearing before…
A man who failed to stop after striking two people standing on the side of a highway access road last year was sentenced this week to four years in prison. Glenn Hoke Garcia, 44, crossed the fog line and hit…
A 25-year-old DeKalb, Texas, woman is now facing multiple charges in connection with the alleged sexual abuse of a 16-year-old girl. A relative of Kaylynn Nicole Garrett, 25, called police the night of Feb. 24 to report that Garrett had…
The temporary waiver of certain vehicle title and registration requirements, announced by Governor Greg Abbott on March 16, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will end at 11:59 p.m. on April 14, 2021. Bowie County Tax Assessor-Collector Josh Davis urges…
A Bowie County grand jury has declined to indict a Texarkana man for murder who was arrested in February following a shooting at a local apartment complex. Sonya Hopkins, 22, was arrested in connection with the Feb. 7 shooting death…
Bail has been set at $600,000 for a man accused of sexually abusing four girls he is related to. Jorge Tomas Pina-Salazar, 42, was arrested last month on multiple felony child sex abuse charges including continuous sexual abuse of a…
A man who sexually assaulted a woman after a party last year knowing that she was intoxicated received a sentence of 12 years in prison Wednesday as part of a plea bargain. Jack Ray Dedner Jr., 21, sent the woman…
A suspect driving a semi-truck without a trailer led multiple police agencies on a multi-state pursuit down Interstate 30 Friday evening. The pursuit began before 7 p.m. after the truck allegedly fled the scene of an accident around the 37…
Trial in the capital murder case of a woman accused of killing a pregnant New Boston, Texas, woman and removing her unborn daughter is scheduled to begin in September 2022. Taylor Rene Parker, 28, aka Taylor Morton, is accused of…
