Two people died and one was injured after a shooting at a house in the 2500 block of Glendale in Texarkana, Ark. Monday afternoon. On November 6, 2023 at approximately 4:40 p.m. Texarkana Arkansas Police received a 911 call advising…
At approximately 10:36am, TAPD dispatch received a call that a man and woman had been shot in a residence in the 4800 block of Parkland. According to Responding officers arrived on scene to find an adult male off duty Texarkana…
NEW BOSTON, Texas–A Bowie County jury returned a guilty verdict late Friday afternoon in the capital murder trial of a Texarkana teen accused of fatally shooting two 18-year-old men in December 2021. Kevonte Collins, 18, was nearing his seventeenth birthday…
NEW BOSTON, Texas–A Bowie County jury began hearing testimony Wednesday in the trial of a Texarkana teen accused of fatally shooting two others and wounding a third in December 2021. Kevonte Collins, 18, was less than a month shy of…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A Texarkana school bus driver has been charged with injury to a child for allegedly putting a seventh grade Texarkana Independent School District student in a head lock while forcibly removing him from a bus in late September. Adam…
TEXARKANA, ARKANSAS – A Hope, Arkansas, man was sentenced on October 19, 2023, to 300 months in federal prison, with credit for time served on a related state court conviction, for using the internet to entice a minor to engage…
TEXARKANA, Ark.–A Georgia man who was pulled over Oct. 10 on I-30 in Miller County allegedly had 14 bricks of cocaine in the trunk of a rented Nissan Altima. Mark T. Oliver, 51, was stopped at about 4 p.m. Oct.…
TEXARKANA, Arkansas–An inmate being held at the Arkansas Department of Corrections community corrections center in Texarkana has been charged with assault in Miller County. When a lieutenant arrived in the intake area of the community corrections center at 506 Walnut…
A Texas man was sentenced yesterday to 120 months in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine in Texarkana, Arkansas. The Honorable Judge Susan O. Hickey, Chief United States District Judge, presided over the case. There is no parole in the federal…
NEW BOSTON, Texas–A man whose pack of menacing dogs seriously wounded a 9-year-old Texarkana boy last year was sentenced Thursday to 35 years in a Texas prison by a Bowie County jury. Ray Lee Cockrell, 60, was convicted of injury…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A man and woman who allegedly tricked a Texarkana couple into opening their front door before holding them at gunpoint earlier this month, are being held in the Bowie County jail on charges of aggravated robbery with bail set…
NEW BOSTON, Texas–Testimony from eight witnesses was heard Tuesday in the trial of a Bowie County man whose pack of dogs allegedly wounded a 9-year-old boy after he reportedly ignored multiple warnings about the vicious canines. Ray Lee Cockrell, 60,…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A man who was on the run from authorities for months following a brazen escape in July from the Bowie County jail was indicted Thursday, just days after being returned to the downtown Texarkana jail. J.C. Lee Kirby, 39,…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A man who was sentenced to six years in prison in 2016 for a child pornography offense by a federal judge in Texarkana, Arkansas, is now facing similar charges in a federal court in Texarkana, Texas. Patrick Wayne Kellam,…
On Friday, September 29 JC Lee Kirby was arrested in Austin TX on Bowie County warrant number B23-01011-F1-TF for the offense of Escape. Kirby escaped the Bi State Jail on 7-7-2023 and fled the area. According to the Bowie County…
