A man who allegedly offered to buy a happy meal for a 10-year-old girl in exchange for a sexual encounter has been charged in Bowie County. Eduardo Degollado Mendez, 37, has been arrested for indecency with a child by sexual…
A Miller County inmate in custody on child sex abuse charges is accused of physically and sexually assaulting his cellmate last month. Charles Anderson, 62, allegedly knocked his cellmate unconscious, tied him to his bunk and sexually assaulted him April…
A DeKalb, Texas, woman has been indicted for two counts of sexual assault of a child and two counts of indecency with a child for alleged sexual misconduct with a teen girl. A relative of Kaylynn Nicole Garrett, 25, called…
A Texarkana man who was engaged in a standoff with police after barricading himself in his apartment with two young boys in March pleaded not guilty to multiple felonies Monday at a hearing in Bowie County district court. Andrew Justin…
A Texarkana man has been arrested by the Wake Village Police Department for online solicitation of a minor. On Thursday, May 6 at approximately 1:00 p.m., Jason Roberts, 39, of Texarkana, Texas, was arrested in the 200 block of Redwater…
A man who intentionally rammed his car into another driver’s vehicle in January 2019 pleaded guilty Monday to aggravated assault with serious bodily injury in Bowie County. Jim Ryan Hodges, 40, is scheduled to appear before 5th District Judge Bill…
A Texarkana, Arkansas, man was sentenced to 20 years in prison last week in Miller County after pleading guilty to sexual assault of a child, abuse of an endangered or impaired person and abuse of a corpse. Tony Ken Hooker,…
A former Texarkana, Texas, Independent School District aide pleaded guilty Wednesday to four felonies connected to sexual misconduct with three male Texas High School students in 2019. Ashlyn Faye Bell’s sentencing trial began Wednesday before a jury of 12 women.…
A man accused of filming a sexually explicit video of a 6-year-old girl is facing charges of possession of child pornography and aggravated sexual assault of a child in Bowie County. Shawn Michael Owen, 36, was arrested on the pornography…
A 28-year-old Texarkana man who was caught nude from the waist down in the bedroom closet of a 14-year-old girl by her mother in 2019 was sentenced this week to 15 years in prison. Johnny Ray Shanklin pleaded guilty to…
A Texarkana man pleaded guilty Tuesday to intoxication manslaughter and intoxication assault in connection with a May 1, 2020, crash that ended one life and seriously injured another. Kendrick Aaron Sauls, 22, has requested that a jury determine his sentence.…
A trial connected to the death of a Texarkana man who was killed in 2012 was set for jury selection Monday in January 2022. Alana Leigh Coleman, 39, appeared from the Bowie County jail via video for a hearing before…
A man who failed to stop after striking two people standing on the side of a highway access road last year was sentenced this week to four years in prison. Glenn Hoke Garcia, 44, crossed the fog line and hit…
Bail has been set at $600,000 for a man accused of sexually abusing four girls he is related to. Jorge Tomas Pina-Salazar, 42, was arrested last month on multiple felony child sex abuse charges including continuous sexual abuse of a…
A man who sexually assaulted a woman after a party last year knowing that she was intoxicated received a sentence of 12 years in prison Wednesday as part of a plea bargain. Jack Ray Dedner Jr., 21, sent the woman…
