8:00 p.m. Wednesday | A hit-and-run accident in the 3500 block of Robinson Rd. left a house damaged with a car upside down in the yard. According to radio traffic an off duty Bowie County Sheriff’s Deputy witnessed the accident…
Texarkana, Texas ~ Texarkana Texas Police used social media to solve a recent theft case where money was stolen from a McDonalds employee’s wallet last week. Since posting the story on their Facebook page last Friday afternoon, the post has…
According to the Texarkana, Texas Police Department a Texarkana, Texas man has been arrested for tattooing two fourteen year old boys. The Texarkana, Texas Police Department arrested Christopher Earl West, 41, on Sunday afternoon following an investigation into the tattooing…
Former Lafayette County, Ark. Treasurer Keesha Rose was sentenced to two years in federal prison and ordered to pay back $282,036.97 that she embezzled from county tax payments. On March 19, 2014, a Federal Grand Jury issued an indictment against…
According to Texarkana, Texas Police these two women came into the McDonalds on New Boston Road with three children and ordered food at about 2:30 in the afternoon on March 15th. An employee had just gone on break and forgot…
March 19, 2015 | The Texarkana Police Department held an awards ceremony on Wednesday, March 18th, at 2:30 p.m. in the Texarkana Police Training Facility located on the first floor of the Bi-State Criminal Justice Center. During this ceremony, Chief…
Texarkana, Arkansas – Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Derrick Estell, age 35, of Hot Springs, was sentenced today on two counts of Use of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of…
Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that William Gauld, age 33 of Texarkana, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 180 months in prison without the possibility of parole, followed by ten years of supervised release…
A SWAT stand-off between a man barricaded in a room with a knife and the Bowie County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team ended peacefully around 4 p.m. Wednesday. According to Bowie County Sheriff James Prince a man threatening suicide by cop…
March 17, 2015 | A Texas Appeals court dismissed a woman’s appeal of eight years’ incarceration because the appeal was untimely, stated an appellate opinion published on Tuesday. Virginia Smith pled to injury to child after allegations of abuse occurred…
The Texarkana, Texas Police Department officer involved in the fatal shooting on December 15, 2014 is set to return to patrol duties on Monday, March 23, 2015. The Texarkana Texas Police Department has been notified that the Texas Rangers have…
Lt. Johnny Weaver, Officer Bo Carter, Officer James Hargrave, Officer Cliff Harris, and BCSO Captain David Grable participated in the 2nd Annual Heroes Ruck Challenge in Little Rock this weekend. Each of them carried a ruck pack weighing at…
A Bowie County jury gave a ma a life sentence for killing his estranged wife’s boyfriend on May 11, 2014. James Austin Friend, 35, entered the guilty plea of murder for killing Larry Gray on February 5, 2015. Friend waived a…
March 12, 2015 | The wife of James Austin Friend, Traci Friend, described to the jury the events leading up to the death of her boyfriend, Larry Gray, while testifying Wednesday. She described the following events while while testifying: Traci…
March 10, 2015 | A jury is scheduled to be selected today to determine the punishment of Nash resident who plead guilty to shooting and killing his wife’s boyfriend. James Austin Friend, 35, entered the guilty plea of murder for killing…
