A man who allegedly cut off his GPS ankle monitor near an adult novelty store in Texarkana has been charged with escape. Michael Shawn Bishop, 46, was sentenced to federal prison in 2017 in the Texarkana Division of the Western…
A Bowie County jury sentenced an Ashdown, Arkansas, man to life in prison Thursday in the shooting death of a 16-year-old Texarkana, Texas, boy last year. Demarius Dejuan Taylor, 21, was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison…
A Miller County jury sentenced DaRoyce Rodgers to 25 years in prison Wednesday for fleeing from the courthouse following a jury trial in 2015. Rodgers, 38, was found guilty of possession of cocaine with the purpose to deliver by a…
A man who engaged in sexual misconduct with a 5-year-old girl was sentenced to 12 years in prison for second-degree sexual assault in Miller County. Kevin Eugene Armstrong, 52, of Longview, Texas, assaulted the girl in Texarkana, Ark., and Longview,…
Both the prosecution and defense rested their cases Wednesday in the sentencing trial of a man who caused a fatal crash last year while driving drunk. Kendrick Lamar Sauls, 22, pleaded guilty in April to intoxication manslaughter and intoxication assault…
A jury was selected Tuesday to decide the punishment Kendrick Sauls should receive for intoxication manslaughter and intoxication assault. Sauls, 22, pleaded guilty to both crimes at a hearing in April before 5th District Judge Bill Miller. Sauls’ defense attorney,…
TEXARKANA, Texas – Four individuals, including two Red River Army Depot (RRAD) officials, have been charged with federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei today. Jimmy Scarbrough, 69, of Hooks, was an…
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.…
