UPDATE – The El Dorado bomb squad removed the package. Bi-State Justice building has been evacuated due to a suspicious package near the building. According to police the bomb squad from El Dorado is en route. This is a developing…
A New Boston, Texas, man who possessed hundreds of images depicting the sexual exploitation of children was sentenced Thursday to six and a half years in federal prison. John Matthew Emerson, 35, appeared with Longview, Texas, attorney Jason Cassel appeared…
Wake Village Police Department is asking for help in identifying this burglary/theft suspect. According to police, the suspect appears to be a 20 Something year old black male, slim build, with medium length hair. The suspect was driving a 2007-2010…
A man who is required to register as a sex offender because of a conviction in Alabama for first-degree sexual abuse was indicted last week by a Bowie County grand jury for two counts of aggravated sexual assault with a…
An inmate at the Bi-State Jail died while in custody Monday evening. Around 7:09 pm on March 11, 2019 Deputy Michelle Carrier was dispatched to the Bi-State Jail to assist an ambulance with an inmate that was unresponsive. Once Deputy…
A woman arrested for murder this month after her boyfriend’s decomposing body was discovered in a Texarkana, Texas, apartment allegedly told police she hit the man with a brick. Lamarya “Margie” Bradley, 54, was taken into custody on the evening…
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…
The Miller County Sheriff’s Office unveiled two new patrol vehicles Saturday afternoon during the 2019 Mardi Gras parade downtown. Sheriff Jackie Runion is delighted to introduce an updated striping package to the community. Symbolism and meaning are incorporated into the…
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…
TEXARKANA, TEXAS – The Texarkana Texas Police Department is searching for Melchor Antonio Labrada Hernandez, 23, after he shot his uncle, Antonio Labrada, 30, with a rifle at a residence in the 2300 block of Summerhill Road early Saturday morning.…
TEXARKANA, TEXAS – The Texarkana Texas Police Department arrested Lamarya Bradley, 54, of Texarkana Texas, for Murder. Officers were dispatched to the report of a deceased person at a residence in the 2100 block of W. 10th Street at 1:44…
