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A Bryant Police Department sergeant was arrested Tuesday night for driving while intoxicated and was terminated the following day, according to officials. Read more below and 🎥🎬 watch the entire video of: the body cam, dash cam, car interior cam, and booking and alcohol test at the Saline County Detention Center. Read the rest of […]
An Arkansas man was facing charges related to CSAM – Child Sexual Abuse Materials – and had been in his jail cell less than a day, when guards found him dead in his cell. A statement from Arkansas State Police says it might not be a natural death. On Friday, August 8, 2025, the Monroe […]
Bryant Police are investigating a homicide that occurred overnight on S. Reynolds Road, near First Southern Baptist Church. Read more below. Around 2:15 a.m. Monday, July 28th, 2025 a call initially came into dispatch with a report of a stolen vehicle. When Bryant Police Officers arrived, they found the vehicle in question, but there […]
The former Hot Spring County Sheriff, Derek Scott Finkbeiner, age 46, was arrested and booked in Saline County Detention Center on Friday, May 2nd, 2025. A story by KARK states the arrest was in coordination with the FBI. Read more below. The arrest record states that it is a hold for the US Marshal Service. […]
Saline County Circuit Judge Josh Farmer sentenced an East End man to 40 years for the fatal road rage shooting of another driver. Read the details below. Prosecuting Attorney Chris Walton announced that Jayeson Lee Ashley, age 21, entered guilty pleas to two counts of Terroristic Act, and was sentenced to 40 years in prison […]
A judge sentenced a Saline County man to a total of 50 years in prison for ongoing criminal activity. According to a statement from the Saline County Prosecutor’s Office, Read the details below. On March 3rd, 2025, Shannon Anthony Barnett, age 50, a white male from Alexander, Arkansas, was found in violation of his […]
Prosecuting Attorney Chris Walton announced that Catera Lewis, of Louisville, Kentucky, entered guilty pleas to murder in the second degree and robbery on Tuesday, December 17, 2024. Circuit Judge Josh Farmer accepted the State’s recommendation and sentenced Lewis to 35 years in the Division of Correction. Lewis was the second suspect to plead guilty for […]
You may remember an incident where a man was breaking into a home in Saline County, and the resident caught him and “stood his ground.” The suspect was out of prison at the time, but is now sentenced to go back. READ MORE BELOW Prosecuting Attorney Chris Walton announced that John Nutt, Jr., of Little […]
A Benton man faces multiple counts of possession of child pornography. READ MORE BELOW On Wednesday, November 13, 2024, Special Agents from the Arkansas State Police (ASP) Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (ICAC), with assistance from the Arkansas Attorney General’s Office and the Saline County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO), executed a search warrant in the […]
A Saline County man was arrested early Tuesday morning at a residence on Zuber Road, in the Salem community of Benton. He is suspected to be involved with child pornography. READ MORE BELOW On Tuesday, November 12, 2024, agents from the Arkansas Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Taskforce, with assistance from the Arkansas State Police […]
