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 [...]

OSCEOLA, AR – An Osceola man pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the death of his estranged wife, Second Judicial District Prosecuting Attorney Scott Ellington announced. Antonio Carter, 40, entered his plea Monday in Mississippi County Circuit Court. He was accused of fatally shooting Shenekia Carter, 30, on March 5. Circuit Judge Ralph Wilson Jr., [...]

HARRISBURG, AR – A Poinsett County Circuit Court jury took less than an hour to convict a Harrisburg man of capital murder on Wednesday, Second Judicial District Prosecuting Attorney Scott Ellington said. Billy Combs, 59, was sentenced to life in prison without parole. The Poinsett County jury comprised of nine women and three men deliberated [...]