This month a Bowie County grand jury indicted an 18-year-old man for alleged sexual abuse of a 6-year-old boy. According to a probable cause affidavit, Corey Banks Jr. assaulted the boy multiple times while staying at the home where the…
A former correctional officer at the Federal Correctional Institution in Texarkana has been charged with violating federal bribery laws. James Thompson allegedly accepted money from inmates and brought them contraband in exchange, according to an information filed last week in…
A Bowie County grand jury has indicted a man for intoxication manslaughter and intoxication assault in connection with a major accident in Texarkana, Texas, on May 1. Kendrick Sauls, 21, was originally charged with two counts of intoxication assault but…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: A Texarkana pastor was sentenced Thursday to five life sentences plus 220 years for 16 counts of child sexual abuse. Logan Wesley III, 56, was found guilty by a jury in Bowie County of five counts of…
A 31-year-old Bowie County, Texas, man has been convicted of federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today. Justin Rashad Young was found guilty of drug trafficking today, following a four-day jury trial…
A DeKalb, Texas, woman charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child involving a 12-year-old girl pleaded not guilty this week in Bowie County. Chavez was arraigned Monday by 202nd District Judge John Tidwell. She is represented by Texarkana attorney…
The Miller County Judges Office wishes to notify the public of two courthouse employees who have recently tested positive for COVID-19. While it is not uncommon for a COVID-19 exposure to occur within a public building where all employees are…
The Texas Department of Public Safety arrested a man in the parking lot of a Nash, Texas, dollar store this month who allegedly thought he was meeting a 15-year-old girl. Julio Aguilar, 42, allegedly used a cell phone to communicate…
Texarkana, Texas, police arrested a homeless man June 1 for allegedly punching and pushing a pregnant woman in a local fast food business. Eric Fisher, 41, was allegedly seen by employees of Burger King on State Line Avenue in Texarkana,…
A Hooks, Texas, man was indicted by a Bowie County grand jury Thursday for several felonies including attempted capital murder of a peace officer. Aaron Swenson, 36, allegedly had come to the attention of law enforcement because of his social…
A retired judge from an outside jurisdiction has been appointed to the cases of a Texarkana father and son accused of sexually abusing a 7-year-old girl. Retired Texas District Judge Lauren Parish who formerly served the 115th District in Upshur…
A brother and sister accused of murder in the shooting death of a 16-year-old boy pleaded not guilty Tuesday. Demarious Taylor, 20, of Ashdown, Ark., and Bosnia Taylor, 21, of Texarkana, appeared separately for arraignment Tuesday on video hearings from…
A Texarkana father and his son allegedly told a 7-year-old sexual abuse was part of a secret game. According to a probable cause affidavit, David “Captain” Fant, 56, sat in a chair and watched as his son, Hayden Fant, 19,…
A Texarkana man was sentenced to two years in a Texas state jail this week in connection with a fiery crash in 2015 that left an Atlanta, Texas, man dead. Billy Ray Howard Jr., 45, was sentenced to a maximum…
A father accused of stabbing his son to death during an argument in April pleaded not guilty to murder this week. Elgin Hollingsworth, 49, appeared before 102nd District Judge Jeff Addison via video on Tuesday from the Bowie County jail.…
