On March 21st, 2022, at approximately 1:00 a.m. two prisoners identified as Michael Olson, 31 years of age and Wayde Land, 38 years of age, escaped from confinement from a downtown Texarkana jail. Information regarding the escape of the two…
TEXARKANA, Ark.: A former teacher with Texarkana, Arkansas, School District has been arrested on four counts of sexual assault involving a 15-year-old female student. Edward Jasiel Hernandez, 25, was arrested by Texarkana, Arkansas, police Wednesday and booked into the Miller…
A woman working at Cornerstone retirement center in Texarkana was arrested last week for allegedly assaulting an 87-year-old woman suffering from dementia. Sharee Shantrell Bryant, 48, was allegedly caught on video entering the woman’s room and slapping her across the…
A man who assaulted multiple police officers and wrecked a Texarkana convenience store in February 2021 was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday. Ashley Neal McClanahan, 41, pleaded guilty to robbery, criminal mischief and multiple counts of assault Monday…
Texarkana, Texas Police have made one arrest in the shooting that happened in the Oaklawn Village Shopping Center parking lot on Friday evening. Officers arrested Latavion Larry, 21, for Deadly Conduct after a warrant was issued for his arrest this…
A Magnolia, Arkansas, woman was sentenced to 25 years in prison this week in connection with a fatal shooting in Texarkana in 2020 investigators describe as drug-related. Cierra Nicole Gentry, 35, pleaded guilty to murder in Miller County circuit court…
A man who is required to register as a sex offender because of a 2005 conviction for sexual abuse involving a 15-year-old boy has been charged with child sex abuse in Bowie County involving an 8-year-old boy. Rickey Lee Johnson,…
According to Texarkana, Texas Police an bystander was shot in the Oaklawn Village parking lot just after 6 p.m. Friday. A 33 year old man and his wife were getting ice at the self-serve ice machine in the parking lot.…
A Bowie County, Texas escapee was shot today while being taken into custody. The escapee was pronounced dead at the scene. The identity of the inmate is being withheld, pending family notification procedures. About 1 PM today, one of the…
A couple from Tennessee have been charged with capital murder in Miller County in the Sept. 20, 2021, shooting death of Keith McFadden in Texarkana, Arkansas. Cornell Brown, 30, and Starlar Brown, 29, are accused of killing McFadden in the…
Texarkana police are searching for a suspect in a shooting about 9:45 p.m. Friday in the parking lot of the Walmart Neighborhood Market in 3300 block of Summerhill Road. The suspect is Zachariah Larry, 22, of Texarkana Texas. Larry and…
A man who sexually abused a 4-year-old boy in 2020 was sentenced to 40 years in prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to several counts of sexual assault in Miller County circuit court. Kegun Dwayne Daigle, 26, was babysitting two boys,…
In 2020, the FBI opened 3,300 child exploitation cases, and arrested over 1,600 offenders involved. They were able to locate 1,400 child victims. The victims’ ages ranged from tender years to 12, but most of the victims were between the…
Three men charged with human trafficking in Bowie County allegedly used threats, physical violence and drugs to control women they sold. Rashaan Jamal “Fashion” Cunningham, 44, and brothers Brandon Palmer, 38, and Marcus Palmer, 36, are facing 25 to 99…
A man who participated in a 2019 murder in Texarkana, Texas, by driving the teen shooter to the victim’s apartment complex, was sentenced to 20 years in prison Monday. Christopher Cross, 22, pleaded guilty to murder Monday in the Dec.…
