A Searcy apartment building owner arrested last April by police following complaints of drug activity and human trafficking at the complex he owns appeared in federal court Thursday on a federal complaint accusing him of sex trafficking and drug distribution.
A White County man scheduled to go on trial Monday on child pornography and attempted sex trafficking charges appeared in federal court Thursday for a pretrial conference but abruptly hit the brakes with an eleventh-hour plea to all seven counts against him.
A former Arkansas political consultant who said he was "remorseful, repentant and hopeful," was sentenced Thursday to 14 years in federal prison for distribution of child pornography.
A Saline County man arrested two years ago by Saline County sheriff s deputies on suspicion of possessing child pornography was arraigned in federal court Wednesday on an indictment handed up earlier this month by a grand jury charging him with one count of child pornography possession.