NEW BOSTON, Texas: A Bowie County jury has convicted Toddrick Matthews of murder in the 2013 death of Sonjha Banks. Matthews, 40, beat and strangled Banks to death on the night of Sept. 8, 2013, and then took steps to…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: A Bowie County jury deliberated for about five hours Thursday in the case of Toddrick Matthews, a man accused of beating and strangling his girlfriend to death in 2013. At about 9:45 p.m., 5th District Judge Bill…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: A Bowie County prosecutor described a man accused of beating and strangling his former girlfriend to death in 2013 as a maniac and a stalker in opening statements Wednesday. Toddrick Eugene Matthews, 40, is accused of murder…
Co-defendants charged with aggravated robbery in connection with the armed holdup of Ellis Pottery in Texarkana, Texas, last year entered pleas of not guilty Monday at court hearings in Bowie County. Brandon Lee Staggs, 25, and Toni Jo Works, 37,…
Two men who caused a fatal crash when they raced their cars last year along Richmond Road in Texarkana, Texas, pleaded guilty Monday at a hearing in Bowie County district court. Kalob Doyle, 26, appeared before 5th District Judge Bill…
Two men accused of trafficking heroin, fentanyl and cocaine in the Bowie County area appeared in federal court Friday. Armando Moya, 46, was first indicted last June for alleged heroin trafficking. A superseding indictment issued in November added accusations of…
The case of a man accused of human trafficking, possession of child pornography and sexual assault of a child has been set for jury selection in May. Robert Allen Smith, 34, pleaded not guilty to the charges in January at…
A 21-year-old charged with capital murder in the fatal shooting of his uncle in 2017 was hoping for a 15-year plea deal. Andrew Deiontrey Hamilton appeared Monday morning with Texarkana attorney Jeff Harrelson for a pretrial hearing before 202nd District…
Testimony is expected to begin Tuesday morning in the trial of a Texarkana, Ark., man accused of burying a friend beneath a shed in his back yard in 2017. Chad Allen Jernigan, 42, is charged with abuse of a corpse…
An accused heroin trafficker scheduled for trial April 1 in a Texarkana federal court wants the statement he made to investigators after his arrest kept from the jury. Armando Moya, 47, of New Boston, Texas, was first indicted in June…
TEXARKANA, TEXAS – The Texarkana Texas Police Department arrested Braylon Chatman, Dralyn Darrough, Conner Keener, Chauncey Martin, and Christian Reid, all 19, for two counts of Aggravated Robbery and Engaging in Organized Criminal Activity. Officers were dispatched to the report…
The Texas 6th court of appeals upheld the life sentence a former Telford Unit inmate who soaked a correctional officer in liquified human waste in an opinion issued Wednesday. Alonzo Gilbert Guerrero Jr., 25, was being housed in administrative segregation…
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…
