TEXARKANA, Texas–A Bowie County grand jury indicted two men last week for murder in the death of a Texarkana man. Cedric Ballard allegedly paid $50 dollars to Darquales “Smiley” McHenry to beat 53-year-old Johnny Robinson at a house in the…
LINDEN, Texas–A Cass County man was convicted of capital murder Thursday and sentenced to life without parole for killing two people in 2018 before burning their bodies in a trash pit. Kevin Dewayne Shepard Jr., 30, killed Donnie Combs and…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A father who left his son’s corpse to decompose in his kitchen for years was sentenced Tuesday to a five-year term of probation in Bowie County. David McMichael, 67, was arrested March 29 on a charge of abuse of…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A woman accused of firing live rounds from a handgun into an occupied apartment earlier this month has been charged with deadly conduct. Lauren Panecia Forte, 31, was taken into custody by Texarkana Texas Police Department officers outside an…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A man convicted of a sex crime in Arkansas was sentenced to a 10-year term of probation Tuesday in Bowie County for failing to comply with sex offender registration requirements. Corey Kelley, 46, moved from a residence in Texarkana,…
About 3:30 Tuesday morning, Christus St. Michael Hospital notified Texarkana, Texas Police that an unknown man had just dropped off a woman at the ER entrance and left. The woman had gunshot wounds to both her shoulder and hand. When…
A Redwater, Texas, man who poured rubbing alcohol on his dog and set it on fire to stop it from fighting another dog was sentenced to a year behind bars Monday in Bowie County. James Lynn Taylor, 27, pleaded guilty…
Texarkana, Texas Detectives continue to make progress in the investigation of the shooting death of Jermaine Aldridge outside Chili’s on December 30, 2020. TTPD made a second arrest in this case on Sunday after Officer Colton Johnson saw 32-year-old Calvin…
A Texarkana man has been charged with Murder in the 1st Degree in the death of a two and half-month-old child. On Wednesday, May 25, 2022, around 5:58 a.m., officers were dispatched to Wadley Hospital due to a deceased two…
A man who failed to protect his 3-year-old daughter from beatings by her stepmother was sentenced to 46 years in prison Tuesday. Everette John Cawley, 26, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and two counts of permitting the abuse of a…
A Texarkana woman has been charged with aggravated assault for allegedly stabbing another woman with a hunting knife earlier this month. Martriesha Dashell Greer, 30, allegedly used a hunting knife to cut a woman while at a motel in Texarkana,…
A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Texas returned an indictment charging a military contractor for rigging bids on public military contracts in Texas and Michigan and defrauding the United States. According to the indictment, from at least…
A federal indictment filed this week in Texarkana accuses a man of abusive sexual contact at Red River Army Depot near Texarkana, Texas. The indictment does not specify whether Andrew Hernandez was employed by RRAD. Hernandez allegedly “did knowingly engage…
Texarkana, Texas, police have made multiple arrests this month for solicitation of prostitution and online solicitation of a minor. According to probable cause affidavits, the men who were arrested arranged via text messaging to meet a person for sex in…
On 5-16-2022 at approximately 6:24pm, the Bowie County Sheriff’s Office responded to a 911 call at a residence on Farm to Market Road 44 East outside of Dekalb, TX. It was reported that a truck had driven into an in-ground…
