A 17-year-old accused of sexually abusing an 8-year-old allegedly made the girl “pinky swear” that she wouldn’t tell. J’Rome Shephard was indicted last week for aggravated sexual assault of a child by a Bowie County grand jury. The offense is…
A Texarkana teen accused of capital murder in the January death of his former girlfriend’s 2-year-old son will undergo a mental evaluation. Clifford James Gayton, 19, appeared Wednesday before 102nd District Judge Bobby Lockhart for a pretrial hearing. Gayton’s attorney,…
A Texarkana woman accused of running over a man after dragging his girlfriend by the hair as she drove down a Texarkana, Texas, street, was indicted Thursday by a Bowie County grand jury. Michelle Purvis, 35, was allegedly sitting in…
After an initial court appearance Thursday morning, Anchor Church Pastor David Wayne Farren was released from the Miller County jail on a $25,000 bail bond. David Wayne Farren, 41, appeared at the Miller County courthouse with Texarkana attorney Jason Horton…
A youth pastor at the Anchor Church in Texarkana is in the Miller County jail on charges of sexual assault involving a teen church member. David Farren, 41, was arrested Wednesday afternoon on three charges of first degree sexual assault,…
A New Boston, Texas, man facing four counts of aggravated sexual assault involving a former girlfriend entered pleas of not guilty Monday at a court hearing in Texarkana. William Emmett Baucum, 44, appeared with Texarkana attorney Joe Tyler for arraignment…
Last week a second lawsuit was filed in federal court accusing Texarkana’s Harte-Hanks call center of not paying workers for all the time they worked. The most recent civil suit was filed Tuesday on behalf of Mary Ann Bennett, Dorian…
Roy Dean Brown, 51, was found guilty of sexually abusing the daughter of his former girlfriend and sentenced to 50 years at the end of a jury trial Thursday afternoon at the Bowie County courthouse in New Boston, Texas. The…
The state rested its case Wednesday afternoon in the trial of a man accused of sexually abusing his former girlfriend’s daughter. A jury of nine women and three men chosen Tuesday at the Bowie County courthouse in New Boston, Texas,…
A jury of nine women and three men was chosen Tuesday to decide the case of a Bowie County man accused of forcing his former girlfriend’s daughter to earn food, cell phones and more by having sex with him. Roy…
A Malvern, Ark., woman pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to using a friend’s name and social security number to file bankruptcy in a scheme to recoup a repossessed car. Calandra Lock appeared before U.S. District Judge Susan Hickey with…
A Texarkana man arrested after a high speed chase with police that ended when he flipped his weapons-filled truck along Arkansas Blvd. pleaded guilty to three felonies Friday. Earnest Ralph Lomax, aka Skip, was arrested March 24 after selling a…
A New Mexico man caught with three kilos of powder cocaine during a traffic stop near Hope, Ark., pleaded guilty Thursday in a Texarkana federal court. Coleman Tuton appeared in jail clothes and hand cuffs at a 1 p.m. hearing…
A registered sex offender accused of possessing child pornography appeared in a Bowie County courtroom Monday. Adafarasun Mack, 37, is required to register as a sex offender because of a conviction in 2000 for indecency with a child by exposure…
A woman arrested last month in a car that had been reported stolen allegedly handed over a bag of methamphetamine to deputies at the Miller County jail. Celeste Nichole Acord, 30, of Ratcliff, Ark., allegedly denied she had anything illegal…
