A Texarkana man was killed in a single vehicle crash on Interstate 30 Wednesday evening. According to police radio traffic, a Texarkana, Ark. Police officer attempted to stop the vehicle on Stateline Ave. for suspected driving under the influence. The…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A Texarkana school bus driver has been charged with injury to a child for allegedly putting a seventh grade Texarkana Independent School District student in a head lock while forcibly removing him from a bus in late September. Adam…
TEXARKANA, ARKANSAS – A Hope, Arkansas, man was sentenced on October 19, 2023, to 300 months in federal prison, with credit for time served on a related state court conviction, for using the internet to entice a minor to engage…
TEXARKANA, Ark.–A Georgia man who was pulled over Oct. 10 on I-30 in Miller County allegedly had 14 bricks of cocaine in the trunk of a rented Nissan Altima. Mark T. Oliver, 51, was stopped at about 4 p.m. Oct.…
TEXARKANA, Arkansas–An inmate being held at the Arkansas Department of Corrections community corrections center in Texarkana has been charged with assault in Miller County. When a lieutenant arrived in the intake area of the community corrections center at 506 Walnut…
A Texas man was sentenced yesterday to 120 months in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine in Texarkana, Arkansas. The Honorable Judge Susan O. Hickey, Chief United States District Judge, presided over the case. There is no parole in the federal…
NEW BOSTON, Texas–A man whose pack of menacing dogs seriously wounded a 9-year-old Texarkana boy last year was sentenced Thursday to 35 years in a Texas prison by a Bowie County jury. Ray Lee Cockrell, 60, was convicted of injury…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A man and woman who allegedly tricked a Texarkana couple into opening their front door before holding them at gunpoint earlier this month, are being held in the Bowie County jail on charges of aggravated robbery with bail set…
NEW BOSTON, Texas–Testimony from eight witnesses was heard Tuesday in the trial of a Bowie County man whose pack of dogs allegedly wounded a 9-year-old boy after he reportedly ignored multiple warnings about the vicious canines. Ray Lee Cockrell, 60,…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A man who was on the run from authorities for months following a brazen escape in July from the Bowie County jail was indicted Thursday, just days after being returned to the downtown Texarkana jail. J.C. Lee Kirby, 39,…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A man who was sentenced to six years in prison in 2016 for a child pornography offense by a federal judge in Texarkana, Arkansas, is now facing similar charges in a federal court in Texarkana, Texas. Patrick Wayne Kellam,…
On Friday, September 29 JC Lee Kirby was arrested in Austin TX on Bowie County warrant number B23-01011-F1-TF for the offense of Escape. Kirby escaped the Bi State Jail on 7-7-2023 and fled the area. According to the Bowie County…
NEW BOSTON, Texas–A husband and wife are currently being held in the Bowie County jail in connection with the alleged sexual abuse of multiple young children. Cody Blake Barnes, 31, and his wife, Brittany Michelle Barnes, 31, were both arrested…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A man who was sentenced to life without parole last year in the death of a 10-month-old boy was denied a new trial Friday by a Texas appellate court. Joshua Deshaun Lowe, 30, was convicted of capital murder in…
TEXARKANA, Texas–A federal grand jury indicted a former Texas High School band director Thursday who was arrested last year for allegedly offering to pay a male student for sex. Brandon Neil Sams, 47, has been charged in the Texarkana Division…
