A defendant charged with robbery and false imprisonment has a new charge of jury tampering in Miller County for alleged inappropriate contact with a juror the day before testimony was scheduled to begin in his trial last year. Jerald Deral…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: A Bowie County jury sentenced a man to 40 years in prison Thursday after convicting him of two counts of aggravated sexual assault with a deadly weapon. Brandon Lee Harrison, 31, received two 40-year sentences which 102nd…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: A woman who claims she was sexually assaulted last year at knifepoint by the father of her two children last September testified Wednesday before a Bowie County jury. Brandon Lee Harrison, 31, is charged with two counts…
A man who fatally shot another at a Texarkana, Texas, car wash last year was sentenced to 35 years in prison for murder Wednesday as part of a plea bargain in Bowie County. Jimmy Jerome Dancer, 30, appeared before 202nd…
On Thursday, August 23, 2018 a victim contacted the Miller County Sheriff’s Department to report the theft of a boat from a residence on Highway 196 in the Genoa Area. Miller County Investigators worked with Sgt. Zach White of the…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: A jury of nine men and three women was selected Tuesday to decide the fate of a man accused of sexually assaulting a former girlfriend at knifepoint last year. Brandon Lee Harrison, 31, was allegedly hiding in…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: A former Texarkana real estate agent was ordered to surrender her license and pay $39,000 in restitution at a sentencing hearing Monday afternoon at the Bowie County courthouse. Reena Corbin, 36, pleaded guilty to embezzling from her…
An 18-year-old Nash, Texas, man is accused of sexual misconduct with four different 13 and 14-year-old girls in indictments issued this week by a Bowie County grand jury. Gary Tanner Royal, who is referred to as Tanner by his alleged…
A homeless man accused of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old boy at the public library in downtown Texarkana has been indicted by a Bowie County grand jury. Library employees became concerned June 26 when they noticed a homeless man twice take…
TEXARKANA, TEXAS – The Texarkana Texas Police Department arrested Reginald Peoples, 35, of Texarkana Texas for Aggravated Robbery. Peoples was involved in the robbery of a business in the 1600 block of New Boston Road on Tuesday morning. Officers were…
A formal charge of felony abuse of a corpse has been filed by Miller County prosecutors against a man who allegedly buried a friend’s body beneath a shed in his back yard. Chad Allen Jernigan, 41, was arrested in July…
A first-degree sexual assault charge has been filed by Miller County, Ark., prosecutors against a former Texarkana, Texas, high school teacher. Carlton James Bailey Jr., 26, allegedly admitted to sexual contact with an 18-year-old female student during an interview with…
A former volunteer softball coach pleaded guilty Monday to fourth-degree sexual assault involving a 15-year-old girl. Michael Avila, 35, appeared with Texarkana attorney John Pickett for a hearing Tuesday morning before Circuit Judge Kirk Johnson at the Miller County jail…
A New Boston, Texas, man facing charges of transporting and possessing child pornography pleaded not guilty before a federal judge in Texarkana this week. John Matthew Emerson, 35, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Caroline Craven for arraignment Tuesday in the…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: A Texarkana, Texas, man received both the maximum sentence and the maximum fine Wednesday for sexually abusing a young girl who lived near him in 2014 and 2015. Jimmy Lee Mathis, 64, was sentenced to life in…
