A man who was found in the company of a 14-year-old runaway girl last year at the Texarkana Public Library was sentenced Tuesday to eight years in prison. Devonta Vashun Smith, 24, pleaded guilty Tuesday to indecency with a child…
An 18-year-old has been arrested in the shooting death of a 17-year-old late Monday night. On August 3, 2020 at 11:10 p.m. TAPD was notified of a shooting in the 2800 block of Love Creek. Officers arrived on scene to…
A federal indictment issued last week in Texarkana, Ark., accuses a convicted sex offender of failing to advise local authorities of his current address in violation of the law. Terry Edward Doolittle Jr., 43, was convicted Jan. 23, 2008, of…
A 17-year-old was killed in an overnight shooting in Texarkana, Arkansas. On August 3, 2020 at 11:10 p.m. TAPD was notified of a shooting in the 2800 block of Love Creek. Officers arrived on scene to find a 17 year…
A Texarkana man was arrested earlier this month after allegedly sending messages to a woman that they should have sex and go to heaven together. Nicholas Jordan Wood, 33, allegedly began sending messages to a woman June 29 on Facebook…
Miller County Circuit Judge Carlton Jones declared a mistrial Wednesday in the case of a 74-year-old man accused of child sex abuse. A jury of six men and six women was unable to reach a unanimous verdict in the case…
A man accused of threatening a girl and her mother after kicking in the door of their Texarkana, Texas, apartment is being held in the Bowie County jail. Lamaro Bishop, 38, was allegedly intoxicated when Texarkana, Texas, police responded to…
TEXARKANA, Texas – A 49-year-old Cass County, Texas, man has been indicted for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today. Bryan Lee Simmons was indicted by a federal grand jury on March…
A Genoa, Ark., man accused of sexually abusing a young girl is set for trial this week in Miller County. Willard Page, 74, allegedly touched the girl inappropriately when she was between the ages of 4 and 8 years when…
A Hooks, Texas, woman accused of sexually abusing a teen boy she met through work at a juvenile justice facility pleaded not guilty to three charges of sexual assault of a child in Bowie County this week. Jessica Marie Pratt,…
A woman has been charged with retaliation in Bowie County for allegedly threatening a witness during a local pastor’s trial earlier this month for child sexual abuse. Porsche Owens, 29, stepdaughter of Logan Wesley III, is accused of shouting at…
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Marshals today elevated the fugitive status of an Arkansas man who allegedly murdered his girlfriend and her 4-year-old son. Jory John Worthen, 24, is now a Marshals’ 15 Most Wanted fugitive, and authorities are asking the…
A woman who allegedly hit a 7-year-old boy multiple times after knocking him down at a playground on the grounds of a Texarkana, Texas, apartment complex has been charged with felony injury to a child. Krystal Riley, 32, allegedly shoved…
Two women have been arrested for allegedly stealing $48,000 from two elderly women. Detective Warren Smith arrested Patricia Richardson and Rhonda Latham for Exploitation of an Elderly Person late last week. Richardson was working as a part-time caregiver to two…
A Texarkana teen was arrested last month for allegedly posting a sexually intimate video of his former girlfriend on Facebook. Chauncey Wyatt, 17, is charged with publishing or threatening to publish intimate visual material in Bowie County. In Texas, individuals…
