A man who sexually abused a baby and two teen girls was sentenced to 55 years in prison Friday after pleading guilty to three felonies. David Louis Jones, 25, appeared before 102nd District Judge Jeff Addison for a plea and…
A Bowie County grand jury has indicted a Texarkana woman for witness tampering in connection with a theft case. Gwendolyn Ruth Block, 59, was indicted in April 2020 for allegedly stealing and using a debit card belonging to an elderly…
A Hooks, Texas, woman who struck a police officer with her fist while he was attempting to impound her potbelly pig was sentenced to 10 years probation this week by a judge in Bowie County. Arianna Swenson, 34, was represented…
The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has added Marques Jujuan Thompson, 20, to the Texas 10 Most Wanted Fugitive List. A cash reward of up to $5,000 is being offered for information leading to the arrest and capture of…
Prosecutors in Bowie County have charged a local man with capital murder in the deaths of two boys who died in a collision in DeKalb, Texas, earlier this month. Zachary Blaise Salazar, 21, was allegedly upset over a disagreement with…
A man accused of shooting in the direction of a clerk during an attempted robbery of a Texarkana, Arkansas, convenience store earlier this month is facing a possible life sentence. Jonathan Dewayne Carroll, 26, is charged with aggravated robbery, aggravated…
A man who allegedly apologized in text messages for sexually assaulting a woman while she was intoxicated pleaded not guilty this week at a hearing in Bowie County district court. Jack Ray Dedner Jr., 20, appeared before 5th District Judge…
A Maud, Texas, man accused of a multi-million scheme to defraud the government’s pandemic related Paycheck Protection Program pleaded not guilty Wednesday to two counts of mail fraud before a federal judge in Texarkana. Samuel Morgan Yates, 32, allegedly created…
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…
