by Seark Today | Aug 20, 2021 | Crime & Courts, News
Octavius Easterling has been found competent to stand trial for the November 2019 shooting death of University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff freshman basketball player and ROTC cadet Sierra Wade of Lake Village. Easterling, 42, is alleged to have shot Wade at a...
by Seark Today | Jun 21, 2021 | Crime & Courts, News, News Archive
A judge has set a $500,000 bond for a Desha County man who allegedly beat his wife, put her and two children in a drainage ditch, and threatened to kill them. Johnathan Garrison, 36, of Desha County was traveling west on U.S. 278 East in Drew County when a Drew County...
by Seark Today | Apr 27, 2021 | Crime & Courts, News, News Archive
An Ashley County man sentenced to 50 years in prison for second-degree murder and tampering with evidence recently was granted a new trial when the Arkansas Court of Appeals, in a split decision, found that the 10th Judicial District Circuit Court should have...
by Seark Today | Mar 26, 2021 | Crime & Courts, News, News Archive
Michael Ashcraft, a former treasurer of the Arkansas Court Reporters Association, was arrested and charged with theft for stealing more than $100,000 from from the organization, according to a news release from Attorney General Leslie Rutledge’s office....
by Seark Today | Feb 9, 2021 | Crime & Courts, News
The life sentence of an Ashley County man who doused another man with gasoline and set him on fire has been upheld by the Arkansas Supreme Court. Anthony Brown, 51, was sentenced to life in prison in August 2019 after an Ashley County jury found him guilty of...
by Seark Today | Dec 10, 2020 | News, Crime & Courts, News Archive
In a 5-2 decision this week, the Arkansas Supreme Court overturned the death sentence of a Cleveland County man convicted of the December 2015 murder of a pregnant Cleveland County woman. Brad Hunter Smith’s capital murder conviction stands, but the court...
