TEXARKANA, TEXAS – The Texas Rangers are investigating an in-custody death involving a prisoner at the Bi-State Jail on Saturday morning. Juan Cordova-Sanchez, 26 of Nash, Texas, was taken to Wadley Hospital after reportedly losing consciousness while in the jail.…
Miller County Sheriff’s Office investigators have arrested a 76-year-old Fouke man for alleged sexual misconduct with teen boys. Kenneth Richards was arrested for rape, second-degree sexual assault and two counts of sexual indecency with a child Nov. 9. Richards began…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: It took about an hour for a Bowie County jury to sentence Billy Joel Tracy to death for the July 15, 2015, slaying of a correctional officer at the Barry Telford Unit. Tracy, 39, is now headed…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: A Bowie County jury began deliberations in the sentencing phase of Billy Joel Tracy’s capital murder trial at about 10:30 a.m. this morning at the Bowie County courthouse in New Boston. The jury has the choice of…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: The state and defense closed their cases Tuesday afternoon in the capital murder trial of Billy Joel Tracy, a Texas inmate who beat a correctional officer to death at the Barry Telford Unit in 2015. Tracy, 39,…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: The defense rested Monday in Billy Joel Tracy’s capital murder trial at the Bowie County courthouse in New Boston. Tracy, 39, is facing a possible death sentence in the July 15, 2015, beating death of Barry Telford…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: Several defense experts testified in the sentencing phase of Billy Joel Tracy’s capital murder trial that the inmate who beat a correctional officer to death in 2015 at the Barry Telford Unit has a “broken brain.” Tracy,…
Texarkana, Ark. police arrested 2 people early Friday morning for theft after a citizen reported rocking chair being stolen from their porch. Early this morning TAPD Delta Squad Officers responded to the area of Parkland Street, in reference to a…
A man who never returned after lunch during his trial in Bowie County for felony drunk driving Wednesday received a 20-year sentence from a jury. Eric Darnell Jemison Jr., 32, is now a wanted man. Jemison was in court for…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: A medical expert testified Thursday for the defense that inmate Billy Joel Tracy has an abnormal brain. Tracy, 39, is facing a possible death sentence for beating Correctional Officer Timothy Davison to death July 15, 2015, at…
TEXARKANA, TEXAS – The Texarkana Texas Police Department is offering a two-hour course on church security and responding to active shooters at 6:00 p.m. on November 16, 2017. It will be held at the Special Operations and Training Center, located…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: The state rested its case Tuesday in the sentencing phase of Texas inmate Billy Joel Tracy’s capital murder trial. Tracy, 39, faces a potential death sentence in the July 15, 2015, murder of Correctional Officer Timothy Davison…
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…
According to Miller County Sheriff’s Office the investigation of the shooting on MC 290 has led investigators to obtain Aggravated Robbery warrants for three individuals. 21-year-old Kiana Keshaun Montgomery, 19-year-old Shaynesha Martin, and 20-year-old Ke’Erica Turner have all been arrested…
