Ex-Office Employee For Sheriff Arraigned

Times Record, Fort Smith, Ark., STATE AND REGIONAL NEWS BYLINE: Mary L. Crider, Times Record, Fort Smith, Ark. LeFlore County, AR May 8 — A formal arraignment order was filed in LeFlore District Court Thursday for Michael Duane Alexander, 56, of Poteau, a former...

Former officer’s 5-year term cut to time he served

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock) BYLINE: DAVE HUGHES ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE Van Buren, AR FORT SMITH – A former Van Buren police sergeant walked out of federal court Thursday a free man after a judge sentenced him to time served following a federal...

Ex-officer to be resentenced for embezzling

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock) BYLINE: ADAM WALLWORTH ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE Van Buren, AR A former Van Buren police officer convicted of embezzling drug money will get a new sentence after winning an appeal. The decision by a three judge panel of the 8th...

Ex-Bentonville evidence officer decertified

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock) BYLINE: JACOB QUINN SANDERS ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE Bentonville, AR EAST CAMDEN – A fired Bentonville Police Department evidence officer and crime scene investigator lost her state-issued certification Thursday. At a...

Evidence rooms get examined

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock) SECTION: NORTHWEST ARKANSAS BYLINE: BY ADAM WALLWORTH ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE Rogers, AR and Bentonville, AR Police consider problems in keeping track of logged items Beer cans and broadswords are among the items that fill the...