An Arkansas pastor was arrested last week on drug charges and reportedly admitted to performing an exorcism on a young boy at his Mayflower church, the Log Cabin Democrat reported. Twentieth Judicial District Drug Task Force agents and Conway Police Department officers went looking for Lloyd Eddie Lasker Jr., 49, on September 22 because he …
The Arkansas state medical examiner’s office found that 25-year-old Sydney Sutherland, the Jackson County nurse whose body was found two days after she didn’t return from an afternoon jog, died from multiple blunt force injuries, KATV reports. Quake Lewellyn, 28, faces charges of kidnapping, rape, and capital murder in Sutherland’s disappearance and death. Sutherland was …
Arkansas police confirmed Friday that the body found in a car inside an empty shipping container earlier this week was that of missing Kansas mother Marilane Carter, last seen by her family on August 1, according to the Memphis Commercia-Appeal. Crittenden County Chief investigator Todd Grooms revealed on Wednesday that Carter likely died of carbon …
In a shocking reversal, the staffer accused of killing former Arkansas state Senator Linda Collins pleaded guilty to the crime on Thursday and was sentenced to 50 years in prison, KAIT reports. Rebecca O’Donnell, 49, was charged with capital murder, abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence in Randolph County in June 2019. Earlier …
An Arkansas police officer was fired Thursday after being charged with the death of a fellow officer he shot through his front door, THV11 reported. Alexander Police Officer Scott Hutton was killed when he knocked on Calvin Nicholas Salyers’s front door at about 7:15 p.m. on June 3. Salyers told investigators looked through a peephole …
An Arkansas woman who was sentenced to 140 years behind bars for murdering her physically abusive husband in 1985 will be freed from prison. The Appeal reported that Willie May Harris, 72, was granted parole after serving 34 years in prison. Harris has maintained her innocence, claiming she accidentally shot her husband during an argument …
The daughter of an influential Memphis family was found dead in her historic Arkansas home late Wednesday morning, apparently slain by the man who murdered her mother and cousin nearby in 1996, the Memphis Commercial Appeal reported. Martha McKay had been the sole owner of Snowden House, originally built by her grandfather in 1919 on …
A police officer in Arkansas was fatally shot Tuesday night while conducting a traffic stop. KARK has identified the slain officer as Brent Scrimshire. The Hot Springs police officer, who had been with the department for six years, was shot at 6:30 p.m. while conducting a stop on the 100 block of Kentwood Street, according …
An Arkansas teen has been charged with killing his mother, and his father is also in jail for trying to cover up the crime, Arkansas Online reported. Carson Glover, 19, was arrested on Wednesday on a single county of capital murder in the death of Sonya Glover, 54. His father, William Gregory Glover, 55, was …
A 911 dispatcher in Arkansas who berated a woman, as she drowned in August, was cleared of all wrongdoing in a recently-completed internal review. The Fort Smith Police Department and Fire Department’s investigation likely means former Fort Smith dispatcher Donna Reneau will not face charges. Debbie Stevens, 47, who was trapped as floodwaters surrounded her …
A Fayetteville, Arkansas, police officer was shot 10 times in the head while sitting in his patrol car behind the police station, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office said in a detailed Facebook post that included video from the entire incident. Officer Stephen Carr, 27, was waiting for his partner in the police station parking lot …
Arkansas police arrested a paramedic on Monday, following allegations that she stole a diamond ring from a patient who died last month. Lisa Glaze, 50, a paramedic at CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs, was jailed on felony theft charges. On October 16, the paramedic transported Gloria Robinson to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead, …
