A woman who was convicted of murder in Missouri in 1998 is now facing a murder charge in Bowie County, Texas. Shirley Ann Falkowski, 54, was arrested in February in connection with the August 2015 stabbing death of James Earl…
A Texarkana, Texas, man is one of three defendants accused of using stolen identities to file phony tax returns in a scheme that defrauded the U.S. government of more than $1 million. A federal indictment unsealed Tuesday in the Texarkana…
Congratulations to Sergeant Devin Warner for receiving the Criminal Investigation Division Bulldog of the Year Award. Sgt. Warner was selected after being nominated by peers, subordinates, and supervisors alike for the leadership role he has taken since assigned to the…
In a response filed Friday to a federal civil rights lawsuit involving a 17-year-old who lost vision in his left eye when his face was struck with pepper spray from a police JPX gun, the City of Texarkana, Texas, alleges…
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…
