NEW BOSTON, Texas–A jury in Bowie County handed down a 35-year prison sentence Friday for a former National Guardsman who slipped into a female guard member’s hotel room as she slept in November 2014. Ronnie Ricks, 33, and a group…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: Correctional Officer Katie Stanley testified Friday that she believed she was going to die after Billy Joel Tracy stabbed her seven times in 2005 with a handmade knife at a prison in Amarillo, Texas. Tracy, 39, is…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: Witnesses who testified for the state Thursday in the sentencing phase of Billy Joel Tracy’s capital murder trial described the Texas inmate as a trouble maker bent on taking the life of a correctional officer. Tracy, 39,…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: Testimony in the sentencing phase of Billy Joel Tracy’s capital murder trial began Wednesday after jurors heard opening remarks from the prosecution and defense. Tracy, 39, is facing a possible death sentence in the July 15, 2015,…
The Wake Village Police Department announced today that charges of Capital Murder have been filed against Andrew Deiontrey Hamilton. The charges were filed in connection with the murder of Winfred Hamilton, 61 of 402 Village Lane in Wake Village. This…
A former nurse accused of manslaughter in the death of a diabetic inmate last year entered a not guilty plea Tuesday at a hearing in Miller County, Ark., circuit court. Brittany Danae Johnson, 27, appeared with Texarkana lawyer Jeff Harrelson…
Miller County prosecutors have formally charged three people who were arrested last month for alleged mistreatment of a goat and multiple dogs. William Lake Evans, 25, is facing a charge of felony animal cruelty and a charge of misdemeanor animal…
New Boston, Texas: Texas prison inmate Billy Joel Tracy was found guilty of capital murder Friday morning after a jury deliberated for about an hour at the Bowie County courthouse in New Boston. The jury will return next week to…
New Boston, Texas: The state and defense rested mid-afternoon Thursday in the trial of a Texas prison inmate facing a possible death sentence for killing a correctional officer at the Barry Telford Unit in July 2015. Billy Joel Tracy, 39,…
New Boston, Texas: A Dallas medical examiner testified Wednesday in the trial of capital murder defendant Billy Joel Tracy that the correctional officer he is accused of beating to death in 2015 suffered massive skull fractures. Tracy, 37, is facing…
A 19-year-old Texarkana man pleaded guilty to illegal dog fighting Monday in Miller County. Jaquavian Jaqwon Johnson received a sentence of five years probation at a hearing before Circuit Judge Carlton Jones. Johnson must pay a $1,000 fine and $5,240…
New Boston, Texas: A video of the beating that killed a correctional officer in July 2015 at the Barry Telford Unit in New Boston was played for the jury Monday morning in Billy Joel Tracy’s capital murder trial. A man…
A woman who stole cash paid for money orders while working at the U.S. Post Office in Maud, Texas, was sentenced to a year of probation by a federal judge in Texarkana this week. Sherry Deangelo had worked for the…
The Miller County Sheriff’s Office arrested 18-year-old Brian Lane Pond on a charge of Rape, according to a press release issued by Miller County Sheriff’s Office. According to Lieutenant Les L. Moody, the Criminal Investigation Division began an investigation into…
A man who stole tools, bayonets and a televison set from Red River Army Depot near Texarkana was sentenced to two years federal probation Monday. James Devin-Jaray Cheatham pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor theft of government property charge in June…
