On Sunday, October 23, 2022, at around 1:58 am, officers were dispatched to the 600 block of East 43rd Street for a disturbance call. When officers arrived, they spoke with a sixty-eight-year-old female who provided a description of the suspect…
TEXARKANA, Texas–An Austin, Texas, man accused of transporting six unauthorized immigrants from Guatemala in the U.S. is being held in the Bowie County jail with bonds totaling $150,000. Jose Cruz, 23, was stopped by a Texas state trooper as he…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A former Texas High School band director allegedly gave a male student a credit card and a laptop computer and offered to pay him for sex. Brandon Neil Sams, 46, is facing state and federal charges related to alleged…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A man accused of using a brick from his cell in the Bi-State jail to attack a sergeant performing routine rounds has been charged with aggravated assault on a peace officer. Vance Allen Brown, 29, is being held with…
NEW BOSTON, Texas–A man who beat an 11-month-old boy to death last year was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Thursday at the end of a three-day jury trial in Bowie County. Joshua Lowe, 29,…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A former director of the Texas High School color guard is facing state and federal charges connected to alleged sexual misconduct. Brandon Neil Sams, 46, of Texarkana, Arkansas, was arrested by Texarkana Independent School District police on Sept. 30…
NEW BOSTON, Texas–A Bowie County jury deliberated about an hour on Monday morning before finding Taylor Parker guilty of capital murder in the 2020 killing of a pregnant friend whose unborn baby girl was cut from her womb. The jury…
TEXARKANA, Texas–Prosecutors and the defense rested on Thursday evening in the guilt or innocence phase of Taylor Rene Parker’s capital murder trial. The jury of six men and six women was instructed by 202nd District Judge John Tidwell to return…
Texarkana, Texas Police have arrested 24 year old Cole Arendt for Manslaughter. Arendt was driving his Chevrolet Camaro on West 7th Street on August 30th, when he swerved to avoid a Dodge Ram truck that had turned left in front…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A 22-year-old man accused of sexually abusing a 7-year-old girl as his father looked on has pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual assault in Bowie County. Hayden David Fant pleaded guilty on Friday and received a 10-year term of deferred…
TEXARKANA, Ark.–A 70-year-old man was sentenced to just over eight years in federal prison on Thursday for receiving child pornography. Charles Donald Thompson, of Winthrop, Arkansas, came to the attention of law enforcement in December 2018 when a school-age girl…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A man whose dogs allegedly left a 9-year-old boy with severe bite injuries earlier this month is being held in the Bowie County jail on a charge of injury to a child with a $100,000 bond. Ray Lee Cockrell,…
TEXARKANA, Texas – Four individuals, including two Red River Army Depot (RRAD) officials, have been sentenced for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today. Jeffrey Harrison, 44, of Texarkana, a former RRAD vendor,…
NEW BOSTON, Texas–A Bowie County jury began hearing testimony on Monday in the death penalty trial of a woman accused of murdering a pregnant friend and taking her unborn baby in 2020. Taylor Rene Parker, 29, also known as Taylor…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A man accused of using an aluminum baseball bat to beat another man allegedly cut himself with a boxcutter after the assault. David Elroy Wilson, 61, allegedly told members of the Texarkana Texas Police Department that he had wielded…
