Trial is set for later this month for a 48-year-old Texarkana, Ark., man accused of molesting a young boy more than a decade ago. Freddie Russell Turner allegedly molested a boy he is related to by a past marriage beginning…
A man whose two young children were seated on top of a secret compartment containing nine kilos of cocaine when he was arrested earlier this year pleaded guilty Tuesday in a Texarkana federal court. Jose Geraldo Ornelas-Pineda, 30, was arrested…
An inmate caught with various kinds of drugs while serving time at Texarkana Federal Correctional Institution last year was given an extra 27 months in federal prison at a sentencing hearing Monday in Texarkana. Marcus Dewayne Maxwell, 47, appeared for…
A man accused of robbing the Venus Adult Superstore in Texarkana, Ark., in 2017 is expected to face a Miller County jury this month. Travon Mandell Peoples, 28, faces a mandatory life sentence if found guilty of aggravated robbery because…
An Arkansas Department of Correction inmate accused of killing a female correctional officer in the kitchen of the Miller County jail more than two years ago appeared in court Tuesday for the first time since being found competent by officials…
Separate federal indictments handed down in the last days of June for two men allege they were distributing methamphetamine in the area. Andre Scoggins, 48, is accused in a four-count indictment of distributing more than five grams of meth Sept.…
Texas Rangers are investigating after an inmate was found hanging in his cell at the Bi-State Jail. On July 6, 2019 Bowie County Deputies Norman Alexander and Ed Steger were dispatched to the Bi-State Jail to assist Life Net personnel.…
A federal indictment unsealed last week in Texarkana accuses a 66-year-old man of possessing and receiving pornographic images involving children under 12. Charles Donald Thompson is the only defendant named in a two-count indictment handed down June 26 in the…
The Texarkana Texas Police Department arrested three juveniles early this morning after they crashed their stolen car at an apartment complex in the 5200 block of Summerhill Road. The three boys, ages 15 and 16, had escaped from a juvenile…
A 66-year-old man with a lengthy history of drunk driving arrests was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday in connection with a single vehicle crash last year that ended the lives of two passengers. Isiah Williams used walker as…
TEXARKANA, TEXAS – The Texarkana Texas Police Department continues to investigate Saturday’s shooting at the Sunset Apartments, located in the 1600 block of Allen Lane. Detectives arrested Mariah Cherry, 20, Farmington, Missouri, for Aggravated Robbery on Monday afternoon at the…
Michael Scott Roberts, 40, was found dead in his Texarkana, Ark., home July 2, 2015, by family members who were concerned by unanswered phone calls. Roberts was a pilot who flew charter flights and a father of one. Roberts’ brother…
An Arkansas prison inmate accused of murdering a female correctional officer with his bare hands in the kitchen of the Miller County jail in December 2016 is competent to stand trial, Miller County Prosecuting Attorney Stephanie Potter Barrett said. Tramell…
A woman accused of introducing a young female relative to prostitution and drugs more than two decades ago is back in custody after failing to show for a court appearance last month in Bowie County. Della Lou Griffin, 52, was…
TEXARKANA, TEXAS – The Texarkana Texas Police Department continues to investigate Saturday’s shooting at the Sunset Apartments, located in the 1600 block of Allen Lane. Randall Green Jr., 18, of Texarkana, Arkansas and Donald Mitchell III, 19, of Texarkana, Texas,…
