An assistant Bowie County district attorney said Monday that the state will not seek the death penalty for a woman accused of killing a Texarkana, Texas, man in 2012 and fleeing to Mexico. Alana Coleman, 39, appeared before 5th District…
On January 24th, 2021 at approximately 8:58pm, The Texarkana Arkansas Police Department received a 911 call from the Tobacco Station store located at 3202 Jefferson Avenue in Texarkana, Arkansas. The caller informed the dispatcher a black male wearing a camouflage…
Bowie County District Attorney Jerry Rochelle announced Friday at a hearing in New Boston that his office will seek the death penalty for Taylor Rene Parker in the death of Reagan Simmons Hancock. Texarkana attorney Jeff Harrelson entered pleas of…
A former owner of an assisted living facility in Texarkana has been charged with misdemeanor fraud involving Housing and Urban Development funds. Rafael Otero is charged in an information filed Wednesday in the Texarkana Division of the Eastern District of…
A man arrested trying to slip across the border in October is now in Bowie County custody on a charge of continuous sexual abuse of a child. Porfirio Ruiz Jr., 21, is related to the girl and was living in…
A mother accused of murder in the death of one of her twin infants and with endangering the welfare of the other has been found fit to stand trial. A mental evaluation filed in the case of Crystal Morrow, 25,…
TEXARKANA, Texas – A Liberty County, Texas, man and woman have been charged with filing hundreds of fraudulent Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) applications with the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act…
ASHDOWN, Arkansas: Prosecutors in Little River County have charged a man with first-degree battery for allegedly stabbing his brother last month during an argument about spreading the word of Jesus Christ. According to a probable cause affidavit, Bryan Matthew Perkins,…
A federal indictment accuses a local man of possessing a 9 mm handgun and ammunition while a convicted felon and while trafficking methamphetamine. Henry Lamar Ross, 40, entered a not guilty plea Tuesday to charges of possession with intent to…
A Frisco, Texas, lawyer pleaded guiltyTuesday in a Texarkana federal court to wire fraud involving two Wake Village residents and a Miller County resident. David Allan Krueger Jr. entered a guilty plea at a hearing Tuesday morning before U.S. District…
The City of Ashdown, Arkansas, filed a lawsuit last month accusing Netflix and Hulu of failing to pay fees for use of internet infrastructure in Arkansas municipalities. Ashdown joins a growing number of local governments suing the popular streaming services.…
On 12-29-2020, Investigators with the Bowie County Sheriff’s Office travelled to Cass County in efforts of serving a Capital Murder warrant on Brandon Lasuan Parkman. With the assistance of the Cass County Sheriff’s Office, the Texas Department of Public Safety,…
The 6th District Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction and sentence of a man who was found guilty by a Bowie County jury in 2019 of sexually abusing his ex-wife’s younger relative when she was a minor. The victim…
A man who allegedly sexually assaulted his girlfriend’s adult daughter after a night of celebrating in October has been charged with rape in Miller County. Demetrius Lee Brown, 42, is being held in the Miller County jail with bail set…
A federal complaint unsealed last week alleges that a Texarkana, Arkansas, man was hiding from law enforcement until he fell through the ceiling of his house. Terron Jerome Pearse, 31, was arrested Oct. 12 at his home in the 1100…
