A Bowie County jury sentenced a 21-year-old man to 8 years in prison Friday for shooting a firearm in a trailer park on a Sunday afternoon last year. Assistant District Attorney Katie Carter argued that Treace Shipp put many lives…
A Red River County, Texas, man pleaded guilty Wednesday to possession of child pornography before a federal judge in Texarkana. James Thomas Tucker, 36, appeared with Assistant Federal Public Defender Kenneth Hawk before U.S. Magistrate Judge Caroline Craven for a…
A Miller County, Arkansas, man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for possession of a firearm while a convicted felon. James Andrew Taylor, 55, was found guilty by a jury last week. After hearing of Taylor’s seven prior…
A Bowie County assistant district attorney announced Monday that the state will not seek a death sentence for a man charged with capital murder in the death of an 11-month-old boy. Joshua Deshaun Lowe, 28, is charged with capital murder…
TEXARKANA, TEXAS – The victim who died in Saturday night’s shooting at a Halloween party inside Octavia’s Event Center has been identified as 20-year-old Javon Gooden, of Texarkana, Texas. The other victims who were also shot included both males and…
Trial has been rescheduled for December in the case of a man accused of killing two boys, ages 3 and 7, by intentionally crashing his truck into the van they were riding in on Jan. 13 in DeKalb, Texas. Zachary…
A man who was confronted by Bowie County sheriff’s deputies for alleged shoplifting from a store in Redwater, Texas, in September was given a misdeamor theft citation and arrested for felony animal cruelty. James Lynn Taylor, 27, and a second…
On Sunday, October 24, 2021, the Bowie County Sheriff’s Office responded to 217 Horseshoe Loop Road in reference to a shooting. The 911 caller advised that a white male suspect, later identified as Thomas Wayne Lawson Sr., had shot two…
A man accused of shooting another man outside a house in Nash, Texas, in November 2020 allegedly captured his crime on a Facebook video. Janarieo Dillihunt, 34, has been indicted by a Bowie County grand jury for aggravated assault with…
An officer-involved shooting at Zapata’s restaurant on Oct. 13 has been determined justified by the Prosecuting Attorney serving Miller County, Arkansas. Jayden Sledge, 20, was shot in the arm by Detective Wayne Easley of the Texarkana, Arkansas, Police Department in…
Bond has been set at $250,000 for a man who was shot by a police officer in a downtown Texarkana restaurant last week. Jayden Sledge, 20, was allegedly seen breaking into an SUV parked outside Hopkins Icehouse bar and restaurant…
A Texarkana man accused of beating his girlfriend’s 11-month-old son to death has been indicted for capital murder by a Bowie County grand jury. Joshua Lowe, 28, is accused of causing the death of Javontae Neeley. The baby’s mother, Christy…
A multi-agency investigation into prostitution in Bowie County resulted in four arrests this month. Under a new change to Texas law which took effect Sept. 1, persons who offer to pay for sex may be charged with a state jail…
A Texarkana man accused of strangling his girlfriend to death in August was indicted for murder Thursday by a Bowie County grand jury. Travis Alston Turner, 27, allegedly killed Jennifer Garrett, 29, in a residence they shared in the 6200…
A Texarkana father and his son have been indicted by a Bowie County grand jury for the alleged sexual abuse of a 7-year-old girl. David Ernest Fant, aka “Captain,” and Hayden David Fant allegedly told the girl that sexual abuse…
