Fayetteville, Arkansas – Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced today that Matthew Smith of Little Rock, and Dr. Marc Smith of Texarkana, were honored with the Ronald Wilson Reagan Public Policy Award today at…
SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA – An Orange County, California Superior Court judge on Monday set bail at more than $1 million for a Texarkana man suspected of sexually assaulting a young child in her Santa Ana, California home. U.S. Marshals arrested Dustin…
El Dorado, Arkansas – Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Anthony F. Winters, age 51, of Longvalley, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 48 months in federal prison followed by three years of…
U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that 27 individuals have been indicted following a lengthy investigation into a drug trafficking organization dealing methamphetamine in the Eastern District of Texas. On Mar. 14, 2015, a federal grand jury returned a…
Former Lafayette County, Ark. Treasurer Keesha Rose was sentenced to two years in federal prison and ordered to pay back $282,036.97 that she embezzled from county tax payments. On March 19, 2014, a Federal Grand Jury issued an indictment against…
Texarkana, Arkansas – Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Derrick Estell, age 35, of Hot Springs, was sentenced today on two counts of Use of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of…
Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that William Gauld, age 33 of Texarkana, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 180 months in prison without the possibility of parole, followed by ten years of supervised release…
March 17, 2015 | A Texas Appeals court dismissed a woman’s appeal of eight years’ incarceration because the appeal was untimely, stated an appellate opinion published on Tuesday. Virginia Smith pled to injury to child after allegations of abuse occurred…
A Bowie County jury gave a ma a life sentence for killing his estranged wife’s boyfriend on May 11, 2014. James Austin Friend, 35, entered the guilty plea of murder for killing Larry Gray on February 5, 2015. Friend waived a…
March 12, 2015 | The wife of James Austin Friend, Traci Friend, described to the jury the events leading up to the death of her boyfriend, Larry Gray, while testifying Wednesday. She described the following events while while testifying: Traci…
March 10, 2015 | A jury is scheduled to be selected today to determine the punishment of Nash resident who plead guilty to shooting and killing his wife’s boyfriend. James Austin Friend, 35, entered the guilty plea of murder for killing…
March 6, 2015 | The court of appeals in Texarkana reversed a trial court’s judgment against a TexAmericas contractor and stated the contractor should receive no money from the judgment or attorney’s fees, stated an opinion published this week. The…
According to an attorney at the Texas Office of Violent Sex Offender Management who talked with TKX Today the Maud restitution facility is no longer being considered by his office. According to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, restitution centers…
Texarkana, Texas Police recently arrested Michelle Lynn for possession of a controlled substance while investigating a possible burglary in progress. According to a probable cause affidavit written by Officer Bailey with Texarkana, Texas Police Department, he was dispatched to the 2100…
February 20, 2015 | A Bowie County jury gave Richard Darby III a total sentence of 45 years of confinement and $10,000 fine. The jury deliberated for two hours before 102nd District Judge Bobby Lockhart read the sentence. Darby plead…
