JONESBORO – Scott Ellington, District Prosecuting Attorney for the Second Judicial District of Arkansas, announces that a Craighead County jury has convicted and sentenced a Blytheville man to life in prison plus 50 years in a Jonesboro slaying. Ellington said that the jury convicted Markus Gentry, 30, of Blytheville of murder in the second degree. [...]

JONESBORO – Second Judicial District Prosecuting Attorney Scott Ellington announced Wednesday he filed two counts of attempted capital murder charges against a Caraway man who shot at two police officers, injuring one, in January. Eugene Collins, 49, was charged in the Eastern District of Craighead County. Collins, who is held in the Craighead County jail [...]

JONESBORO, AR – A Bono man who caused the death of his four-month-old son will serve 18 years in the Arkansas Department of Correction, Second Judicial District Prosecuting Attorney Scott Ellington said. Seth Bradley Smith, 27, was convicted of Murder in the Second Degree Monday evening in the death of Anderson Smith.  A Craighead County [...]

BLYTHEVILLE, AR – Prosecuting Attorney Scott Ellington announces that the Second Judicial Drug Task Force (DTF), in cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security and the Blytheville Police Department, conducted an operation at 200 South Division in Blytheville which resulted in the seizure of 62.7 pounds of methamphetamine, 23 pounds of marijuana, and 2.4 pounds [...]

OSCEOLA, AR – District Prosecuting Attorney Scott Ellington announces today that Circuit Court Judge Dan Ritchey convened a Mississippi County grand jury in Osceola on Tuesday, October 22, 2019. After hearing the matter presented, the grand jury handed down an indictment charging Dakota Dunkin, an officer with the Osceola Police Department, with the offense of [...]