WHEATLEY, Ark. – A former law enforcement officer has been arrested, according to a press release from Arkansas State Police. Below is the full release: On March 25, 2024, former Chief Marshal Jacob Lynn Gammel, 25, of the Wheatley Police Department, was arrested by agents from the Arkansas State Police [read more…]
by Hunter Field, Arkansas Advocate When Arkansas’ medical marijuana industry began five years ago, it was somewhat of an open secret that some of the Arkansans said to own the first dispensaries and growing facilities were fronts for out-of-state cannabis firms. Explosive new allegations in a pair of lawsuits, if [read more…]
FORREST CITY — At approximately 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, August 30, 2023, an Arkansas State Police aircraft landed in east Arkansas carrying recaptured inmate Samuel Paul Hartman, 39, Hartman’s wife Misty Hartman, 39, and his mother Linda Annette White, 61. ASP Criminal Investigation Division (CID) investigators interviewed Hartman before returning him [read more…]
A vehicle stolen from a Craighead County woman was recovered after being found wrecked in a ditch in St. Francis County. The theft was reported around 12:20 PM on July 30, at the 1400-block of Lakewood Drive, according to the Jonesboro Police Department (JPD). The female victim, 24, reported to [read more…]
MARIANNA—A coordinated arrest operation took place this morning in Marianna and Forrest City as part of an ongoing federal drug investigation. Dubbed “Operation Candyland,” this investigation by the FBI, Arkansas State Police, the First Judicial Drug Task Force, and the St. Francis County Sheriff’s Office, focused on individual independent distributors [read more…]
Victim Was Six Years Old At The Time Of The Offense LITTLE ROCK—A Palestine man was sentenced to life in prison for conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of a six-year-old child. Mario Waters, 34, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Brian S. Miller. In February 2018, a six-year-old [read more…]
St. Francis County, Ark. – A traffic accident claimed the life of a Memphis man on December 4 in rural St. Francis County. It happened at 3:34 PM on Sunday, the report with Arkansas State Police said. A 2012 GMC Sierra was disabled and stopped on Interstate 40 at the [read more…]
Forrest City Police Officer Justin Davis was arrested by Arkansas State Police Special Agents Thursday. Davis, 22, of Marianna, is charged with two counts of sexual assault (4th degree, felony). The state police Criminal Investigation Division was requested earlier this week by local authorities to investigate allegations that Davis had [read more…]
Tragedy struck Arkansas roadways over the past several days, claiming multiple lives in separate, unrelated crashes in NEA. Late Thursday (August 18) in Independence County, a Pocahontas man was killed in a traffic accident. At about 9:37 PM, Matthew Giles Jansen, 41, of Pocahontas, was on a 2022 Harley Davidson. [read more…]
An eleven month long Arkansas State Police undercover narcotics investigation in St. Francis County culminated with the arrest of 22 alleged drug dealers today. State troopers are continuing to search for 8 individuals who have evaded apprehension during the arrest operation that has been centered in Forrest City. All [read more…]
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