On Thursday December 3, 2020 the Hooks High School was placed on lockout for precautionary measures following a suspicious persons incident reported to the Hooks Police Department. The incident was occurring off-campus and unrelated to the school. A short time…
The Arkansas Supreme Court issued an opinion Thursday overturning the murder conviction and sentence of life and 15 years for a man accused of killing another over a parking space. Marvin Arrell Stanton was found guilty by a Miller County…
A woman arrested earlier this year near Texarkana with almost five kilos of cocaine and more than 300 pounds of marijuana in her car pleaded guilty this week in a federal court in Texarkana. Lisa Marie Escamilla, 38, aka Lisa…
A Bowie County grand jury indicted a woman last week on a charge of capital murder in the 2012 stabbing death of a Texarkana, Texas, man. Alana Coleman, 38, was arrested in Mexico in October by U.S. Marshals on a…
Two inmates who were allegedly caught using cell phones to post to Facebook Live from the Bowie County jail in August were indicted last week by a Bowie County grand jury. Dean Cage Jr., 28, and Devonte Barker, 30, were…
Liberty-Eylau ISD is asking for help in identifying a suspect that broke into their Elementary School and stole several items. According to a Facebook post by the district, this weekend, the woman in the photos below broke into the Elementary…
There is a Windstream outage right now that’s effecting people’s ability to call 911 from their landline phones. Includes both sides of Texarkana and parts of Bowie and Miller Counties. People with Windstream landline phones will need to use a…
On Saturday, December 5, 2020, the Pike County Sheriff’s Office responded to a local grocery store in reference to fraudulent checks being passed. During the course of the investigation, it was found that several hispanic males passed 56 fraudulent payroll…
A woman accused of killing a New Boston, Texas, woman and taking her unborn baby was indicted by a Bowie County grand jury today for capital murder and kidnapping. Taylor Rene Parker, 27, aka Taylor Morton, faces life without parole…
A civil complaint filed in a Texarkana federal court Monday accuses a Texarkana, Texas, man of continuing involvement in the sale of livestock despite a 2018 court order suspending him for five years. The complaint was filed by the U.S.…
A man who recently finished serving time in a prison in Texas is now awaiting trial for the alleged sexual abuse of a young girl in Miller County. Steven Whitworth, 34, was convicted in Dallas County, Texas, of aggravated sexual…
On December 8th, 2020, the Texarkana Arkansas and Texas Police Departments received several 911 calls in reference to package thefts in local neighborhoods. The Texarkana, Arkansas Police Department developed information that a black male in a White Nissan Titan truck…
Two men who shot and killed a pregnant cow on County Road 2302 in September 2019 were sentenced to 10 years probation Monday and ordered to pay a rancher $5,000 in restitution. Hunter Sinyard, 22, of Texarkana, Texas, and Jedediah…
A Hughes Springs, Texas, man has been charged with second-degree sexual assault in Cass County for allegedly assaulting a woman who delivered a package to his house. Timothy Jan Leftwich, 59, allegedly called the woman back to his front door…
A man required to register as a sex offender because of child sex abuse convictions in Arkansas is being held in the Bowie County jail on a charge of online solicitation of a minor. Jamar Antonio “Jay Polo” Ellis, 28,…
