INVESTIGATION CONTINUES IN POPE COUNTY OFFICER INVOLVED SHOOTING
Quinton Phillips, 83, of Dover has been identified as the individual who died last night after he reportedly fired a rifle at local law enforcement officers. At approximately 3:10 PM yesterday...
View Article“DRIVE SOBER OR GET PULLED OVER” INITIATIVE READY FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON
Additional Information Contact: ASP Highway Safety Office – Ann Whitehead (501) 618-8133 – ann.whitehead@asp.arkansas.gov (LITTLE ROCK) – State and local law enforcement officers are increasing their...
View ArticleINVESTIGATION CONTINUES FOLLOWING OFFICER INVOLVED SHOOTING
UPDATE: Joseph Garcia, 33, of Collinsville, Mississippi has been identified as the individual who died in an officer involved shooting yesterday (Sunday, December 25, 2016) south of Batesville....
View ArticleSTATE POLICE TO BEGIN INTERNAL REVIEW OF GARLAND COUNTY CRASH
An independent law enforcement investigation of an October 10, 2016 motor vehicle crash that left two people dead and an Arkansas State Trooper seriously injured has been completed. Terri Harris, 18th...
View ArticleSIX MONTH INVESTIGATION LEADS TO ARREST IN JOHNSON COUNTY MURDER
Christopher Weston, 37, was taken into custody by Arkansas State Police Special Agents and Johnson County Sheriff’s Deputies last night in connection with a June 2016 homicide. He is charged with...
View ArticleSTATE POLICE COMMISSIONERS APPROVE ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES DIVISION PROMOTION
Arkansas State Police Sergeant Roby Rhoads has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant and will assume duties as assistant commander of the department’s Administrative Services Division,...
View ArticleSTATE POLICE COMMISSION APPROVES DIRECTOR’S RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PROMOTIONS
Lieutenant Paulette Ward, 46, of Little Rock, commander of the Arkansas State Police Office of Professional Standards was promoted to the rank of captain today during a meeting of the Arkansas State...
View ArticleSTATE POLICE REQUESTED TO INVESTIGATE MARION COUNTY OFFICER INVOLVED SHOOTING
Special Agents of the Arkansas State Police Criminal Investigation Division are investigating an officer involved shooting that occurred at approximately 5:36 this morning, (Sunday, February 19th,...
View ArticleSTATE POLICE INVESTIGATING OFFICER INVOLVED SHOOTING AT OSCEOLA CONVENIENCE...
The Arkansas State Police Criminal Investigation Division is investigating an officer involved shooting that occurred this morning (February 24th) in Osceola, AR involving three juvenile subjects....
View ArticleSTATE POLICE COMMISSIONERS APPROVE HIGHWAY PATROL SERGEANT PROMOTION
Arkansas State Police Corporal Kevin Steed, 39, of Garland County, has been promoted to the rank of sergeant and will assume post supervisor duties within Highway Patrol Division, Troop K. The...
View ArticleSTATE POLICE INVESTIGATING BODY FOUND IN PRAIRIE COUNTY
Special Agents of the Arkansas State Police Criminal Investigation Division, along with Prairie County Sherriff’s Deputies, are investigating the discovery of a body found at a Prairie County farm...
View ArticleUPDATE: STATE POLICE INVESTIGATING BODY FOUND IN PRAIRIE COUNTY
Arkansas State Police Special Agents assigned to the Criminal Investigation Division are working closely with New York State law enforcement authorities in an attempt to identify the remains of a...
View ArticleSTATE POLICE INVESTIGATING BODY FOUND IN PRAIRIE COUNTY
Arkansas State Police Special Agents assigned to the Criminal Investigation Division are working closely with New York State law enforcement authorities in an attempt to identify the remains of a...
View ArticleUPDATE: STATE POLICE INVESTIGATING BODY FOUND IN PRAIRIE COUNTY
At approximately 6:00pm yesterday (Wednesday, March 8th) Special Agents assigned to the Arkansas State Police Criminal Investigation Division arrested Virginia Colvin, 56, of Johnstown, New York, who...
View ArticleSTATE POLICE INVESTIGATING WARD HOMICIDE
The Ward Police Department received a call yesterday afternoon (Thursday, March 23rd) reporting a homicide at 121 Pinter Lane. Local police officers arrived to the residence to find Lori Hannah, 36, of...
View ArticleAPRIL IS DISTRACTED DRIVING PREVENTION MONTH - Drivers urged to focus on the...
Additional Information Contact: Highway Safety Office – Ann Whitehead (501) 618-8133 – ann.whitehead@asp.arkansas.gov (LITTLE ROCK) – Arkansas law enforcement agencies have joined the national “U...
View ArticleTROOP A COMMANDER NAMED; CID PERSONNEL PROMOTED
(LITTLE ROCK) - Captain Mike Hagar, 44, of Faulkner County, commander of the Arkansas State Police Executive Protection Section, has accepted a lateral transfer approved by Colonel Bill Bryant,...
View ArticleUPDATE: ASP REQUESTED IN INVESTIGATION OF OFFICER INVOLVED SHOOTING
The individual who reportedly brandished a gun at police and subsequently shot has been identified as Olugbalah Ridley, 33, of Indianapolis, Indiana. An investigation of the use of deadly force by...
View ArticleYELL COUNTY DEPUTY KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY: TWO OTHERS DEAD
Lieutenant Kevin C. Mainhart, 46, of the Yell County Sheriff’s Department was killed in the line of duty today during a traffic stop west of Dardanelle, Arkansas along State Highway 27 near the...
View ArticleUPDATE: SUSPECT IN CUSTODY IN YELL COUNTY HOMICIDES
James Arthur Bowden, 42, of Dardanelle was arrested this afternoon, May 11th at 2:40pm, after a five hours standoff with the Arkansas State police and local law enforcement agencies. He was taken...
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