A man who falsely claimed his wife was earning money as a truck driver so he could continue receiving federal disability benefits pleaded guilty to theft of government property in a Texarkana federal court. Thomas Joe Green began receiving disability…
Two Bowie County men are facing multiple felony charges after allegedly harvesting ten deer at night with night vision scopes and without landowner consent. Kirk and Brandon Brooks are both facing multiple state jail felonies and misdemeanors in connection with…
Federal officials hope to punish a Texarkana man accused of selling methamphetamine as a repeat offender. Roderick Tyrone Thurman, 40, was indicted Wednesday for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine and two counts…
A Bowie County grand jury has indicted a local man accused of shooting two last year in the parking lot of Waffle House on State Line Avenue in Texarkana, Texas. Calvin Marshon Gardner, 30, allegedly pulled into the Waffle House…
The father of a 3-year-old girl who was allegedly beaten to death last year by her stepmother has been charged in Miller County as an accomplice to capital murder. Everette Cawley, 24, and his wife, McKenna Belcher, 27, are both…
Two teens have been indicted by a Bowie County grand jury for allegedly kicking in the door of a family’s apartment and killing a husband and father. Daveon Demonta Woods turned 18 less than three weeks after he and Cameron…
A woman who used a brick to strike her boyfriend during a physical confrontation was sentenced to 20 years in prison last week. Lamarya “Margie” Bradley, 55, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of Willis Sanders, 62, before 102nd…
Fort Smith, Arkansas – United States Attorney Duane (DAK) Kees, of Bentonville, Arkansas, has announced his resignation effective midnight January 17, 2020. After his resignation, Mr. Kees will enter the private sector in Arkansas. During his tenure as United States…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: A woman who shot a man she once dated in the back of the head in May 2018 was sentenced Friday night to 25 years in prison. Tonya Ruth Barnett, 42, claimed she shot Cecil “C.J.” Ellis…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: A jury deliberated about 10 minutes Friday before sentencing a man to life in prison for beating and sexually assaulting an adult family member in her bedroom in July 2016. Clifton Littesam Poulton, aka “Kippie,” 45, has…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: A jury has found a woman who shot a man she was romantically involved with in her Texarkana, Texas, mobile home guilty of murder. Tonya Ruth Barnett, 42, claimed she shot Cecil “C.J.” Ellis Jr., 35, in…
A Miller County jury sentenced a man who shot a woman in the face at a Texarkana, Ark., apartment complex last April to 48 years in prison Wednesday. Markelle Demetrice Davis, 20, was sentenced to 33 years for first-degree murder…
Texarkana, Texas Police arrested Kimberly Hale yesterday afternoon after she tried to pass a fake check at a bank on West 7th Street. According to police, the teller immediately recognized the account name on the check as being one that…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: Tonya Ruth Barnett, 42, initially claimed she shot Cecil Ellis Jr., 35, in self-defense as the two struggled over her cell phone May 24, 2018. But after an autopsy report showing Ellis was shot in the back…
A Texarkana woman was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday for her role in the attempted robbery of a home and garden center in November 2017. Toni Jo Works, 38, and her boyfriend, Brandon Lee Staggs, 26, were both…
