JONESBORO, Ark. — A Jonesboro woman accused after her infant son was hospitalized with injuries inconsistent with an accidental fall has pleaded guilty and been sentenced to prison. Liberty Yates Thompson, 22, entered a guilty plea to first-degree battery, according to a sentencing order filed June 9 in Craighead County [read more…]
JONESBORO, Ark. — Jury trials have now been scheduled for four defendants charged in a high-profile Craighead County case in which prosecutors allege a teacher orchestrated what authorities described as a “child fight club” inside a classroom at ENGAGE School. Court records show that Mary Tracy Morrison, the school’s founder [read more…]
LAWRENCE COUNTY, Ark. — A convicted child rapist received a 35-year prison sentence this week in Lawrence County after a negotiated plea. Brandon Allen Leonard, 39, entered a negotiated guilty plea on Sept. 30 to one count of rape of a victim under 14, two counts of engaging a child [read more…]
POCAHONTAS, Ark. — A defendant is accused of several serious sex crimes, including rape and first-degree sexual assault, in a probable cause affidavit filed last week in Randolph County. Jackie Ray Allred, 54, of Pocahontas, was arrested on Sept. 25, 2025, and booked into the Randolph County Detention Center on [read more…]
MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. — A woman is facing murder and other charges in the death of an infant child in Baxter County. According to the probable cause affidavit, at about 3:14 PM on August 29, 2025, dispatch advised of an infant barely breathing at the 7100 block of Highway 126 [read more…]
JONESBORO, Ark. — The case that the prosecutor referred to as a ‘child fight club‘ was in court this week in Jonesboro. On Sept. 5, 2025, the court heard motions to modify the no-contact orders for defendants Katherine Lipscomb and Kristin Bell. Lipscomb, represented by attorney Randel Miller, and Bell, [read more…]
JONESBORO, Ark. — A man who was accused of raping a child on multiple occasions has been found guilty and sentenced to 140 years in the Arkansas Department of Corrections. Jonathan Micheal Hitchcock, 33, was found guilty on Tuesday, August 13 on four counts of rape and one count of [read more…]
GREENE COUNTY, Ark. – A woman has been arrested on a felony charge after police say she was notified by a minor of multiple instances of sexual abuse and allowed the abuse to continue. Carrie Howard, 81, is facing a charge of permitting the abuse of a minor, a Class [read more…]
JONESBORO, Ark. – A case of alleged abuse involving a child with cuts, bruises, and swelling all over his body was reported to police on Monday in Jonesboro. Most of the report is masked but it was taken Monday afternoon by authorities after a social worker at the Nettleton School District [read more…]
Tuesday’s arrests are based on the totality of the investigation, the press release from police said. [read more…]
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