TEXARKANA, Texas–One of three men charged with capital murder in the 2019 death of a local husband and father who was killed in front of his pregnant wife is set to face a jury next month in Bowie County. Kentraile…
ASHDOWN, Ark.–A man from Wake Village, Texas, just outside Texarkana, was allegedly asleep at the wheel at an Ashdown, Arkansas, convenience store’s gas pumps when approached by police on New Year’s Eve. When a reportedly sleeping Jeremia Lin Rothmeyer, 40,…
NEW BOSTON, Texas–During two days of pretrial hearings in the case of a Texarkana man accused of strangling his girlfriend to death in 2021, the state argued for high security, the disruptive defendant was given a new lawyer and the…
HOPE, Arkansas–Felony charges have been filed in Hempstead County against a man who allegedly threatened family members with a gun during a dispute over a Christmas tree last month. Michael Dion Ballance, 61, allegedly began arguing with a female family…
On December 29, 2022, Investigators with the Bi-State Narcotics Task Force, executed a narcotics search warrant in the 400 block of Ferguson Street in Texarkana, Arkansas. The search warrant was the result of a several months-long investigations at the location.…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A former correctional officer accused of accepting money in exchange for contraband at the Telford Unit in New Boston entered not guilty pleas to a list of felony charges on Tuesday at a hearing in Texarkana. Ki-Jona Hayvin Wells,…
LITTLE RIVER COUNTY, Ark.–A man who was the subject of reckless driving calls from two counties reportedly crashed through a locked gate with four kids in pajamas in the backseat. David Craig Parson, 30, was charged with felony driving while…
TEXARKANA, Ark.–An 18-year-old murder suspect was denied a reduction of his half-a-million dollar bond last week by a judge in Miller County. Jamauri Montavious Davis is accused in the fatal Dec. 4 shooting of 19-year-old Keeunta Gilliam. The Texarkana Arkansas…
TEXARKANA, Texas–Three men were arrested last week for agreeing to meet and pay for sex with a state police investigator posing online as a 15-year-old in Texarkana. Special agents with the criminal investigation division of the Texas Department of Public…
NEW BOSTON, Texas–A woman whose 11-month-old son was beaten to death by her boyfriend last year was sentenced to 60 years in prison on Thursday for failing to protect him and his 4-year-old sister. Christy Wedgeworth, 25, was found guilty…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A Texarkana man has been charged with a felony for allegedly assaulting his 79-year-old father in a local nursing facility where he was receiving hospice care. Jeffery Scott Huggins, 49, who has a history of alcohol-related arrests, reportedly smelled…
TEXARKANA, Ark.–A Hope man serving 25 years in state prison for kidnapping a 12-year-old girl pleaded guilty on Monday in federal court in Texarkana to a related charge. Jonathan Tyrell Haney, 35, met the girl on the “dating focused” site…
TEXARKANA, Texas–Four men accused of operating a commercial sex operation involving more than a dozen women in the Texarkana area recently pleaded not guilty to the continuous trafficking of persons. If convicted of continuous trafficking, Rashaan Cunningham, 45, aka “Fashion,”…
TEXARKANA, Texas–Three men have been charged with felony solicitation after agreeing to pay an undercover officer with the Texarkana Texas Police Department for sex earlier this month. The female officer working undercover on Dec. 2 was approached by the men…
LINDEN, TX – On Tuesday, December 6, 2022, Charles Spraberry pled guilty to the offense of Capital Murder in the 5th Judicial District Court of Cass County, Texas for the deaths of John Thomas, Jr. and Jennifer Archer. Spraberry pled…
