In the early morning of 04/28/2021 at approximately 2:28 am, officers were dispatched to the 3100 block of Hickory Street for a call for service. While officers were on the scene, they heard gunshots in the distance that appeared to…
Loca Luna Mexican Grill has opened a second location in the Texarkana area. The new location is located at 5200 W 7th St. in Wake Village in the building that once housed Big Cheese Pizza. The location has a drive-through…
Texarkana, Texas, police have charged a local man with aggravated assault and child endangerment in connection with a shooting on Old Boston Road earlier this month. Jimmy Lee Mitchell, 33, is accused of confronting the mother of his 1-year-old son…
A man accused of filming a sexually explicit video of a 6-year-old girl is facing charges of possession of child pornography and aggravated sexual assault of a child in Bowie County. Shawn Michael Owen, 36, was arrested on the pornography…
Wadley Hospital with on lockdown for a short time Sunday evening after a man ran into the emergency room with a handgun. According to police Donte Henderson ran into the ER with a handgun and said someone was chasing him.…
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…
