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…
The Arkansas Supreme Court issued an opinion Thursday overturning the murder conviction and sentence of life and 15 years for a man accused of killing another over a parking space. Marvin Arrell Stanton was found guilty by a Miller County…
A woman arrested earlier this year near Texarkana with almost five kilos of cocaine and more than 300 pounds of marijuana in her car pleaded guilty this week in a federal court in Texarkana. Lisa Marie Escamilla, 38, aka Lisa…
