Texarkana Arkansas Police Officer Dakota Easley arrested Dewayne Franklin, 21yoa, of Wheatfield Connecticut, and Jermany Tiswell, 25yoa, of Marianna Arkansas, after discovering 10 pounds of marijuana, 4 pounds of THC oil, and ecstasy during a traffic stop. On February 19,…
A Hope, Ark., man was sentenced last week to 20 years in prison for attempting to steal a woman’s purse from her shopping cart last year in the parking lot of a Texarkana store. Martez Marquis Carrigan, 20, pleaded guilty…
A 72-year-old Genoa, Ark., man is facing a charged of sexual assault in Miller County in connection with the alleged sexual abuse of a young girl. The allegations against Willard Page surfaced in November when the girl’s step-mother discovered a…
Jury selection is scheduled for March for a man facing up to 20 years in federal prison on a child pornography charge. Daimen Michael Perry is the only defendant listed in a one-count indictment filed last year in the Texarkana…
A man who held a gun to a former girlfriend’s head and raped her repeatedly one night in February 2016 pleaded guilty Monday and received a 30-year prison term. William Emmett Baucum III, 46, entered the guilty plea Monday before…
A Miller County jury handed down three verdicts of not guilty Tuesday for a pastor who has spoken from the pulpits of local churches and currently resides in California. David Jerome Keener, 36, was accused of molesting the girl, a…
A man who was affiliated with a church in Fresno, Calif., as a pastor at the time he was charged with rape in Miller County, Ark., and who once served as a guest pastor at a Baptist church in the…
A man accused of attempting a gunpoint robbery of a local gardening and plant store and a woman who allegedly waited outside for him in a car were indicted for aggravated robbery Thursday by a grand jury in Bowie County,…
A Bowie County grand jury indicted two men for murder Thursday in connection with a fatal shooting for which a third man is already serving a life sentence. Clarence Willis, 46, and LaPrense Willis, 44, were indicted for murder Thursday…
A Texarkana, Ark., man accused of burying a friend’s body beneath an outdoor shed is scheduled for jury selection later this month. Chad Jernigan, 42, was arrested just over a year after Richard York, 45, was reported missing by his…
A 19-year-old Texarkana man accused of causing the death of his passenger when he led Wake Village police on a chase in December was in court Tuesday in Bowie County. Deontrae Delshawn Solomon appeared before 102nd District Judge Jeff Addison…
A Texarkana man accused of writing a hot check for a travel trailer and tricking a local business out of an expensive cooker is facing felony theft charges in Bowie County. Gerald Pinham, 65, allegedly wrote a $15,000 check July…
A 33-year-old Hooks, Texas, man was sentenced Wednesday to 13 months in federal prison for assaulting a federal police officer at Red River Army Depot last year. Dontrell McChester was asked to stop and get out of his car when…
A Texarkana man was arrested earlier this month for allegedly molesting a 10-year-old girl he met on social media. Calvin Delmonte Lyons III, 25, appeared with Assistant Public Defender Clayton Haas for a pre-indictment hearing before 202nd District Judge John…
A New Boston, Texas, man entered pleas of not guilty Monday to charges of human trafficking, child pornography possession and sexual assault of a child. Robert Allen Smith, 34, appeared for arraignment Monday morning with Assistant Bowie County Public Defender…
