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Wednesday, January 6, 2021
The Carroll County Quorum Court will push its monthly meetings back by an hour for the next two years.
The court voted 8-1 Monday night to hold its regular meetings at 6 p.m. on the third Monday of each month. Prosecuting Attorney Tony Rogers had asked the court to consider another day of the week because Mondays are busy days for prosecutors in criminal court and the courtroom of the Carroll County Eastern District Courthouse in Berryville where the quorum court normally meets is sometimes not available on Monday nights.
District 6 Justice of the Peace Craig Hicks made a motion to set the monthly meetings at 6 p.m. on the third Monday, saying that would give prosecutors more time to finish their duties in criminal court. Although Rogers noted that would create a longer day for prosecutors, JPs approved Hicks motion by an 8-1 vote.
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
Holiday Islands first city officials were recently sworn into office. Pictured outside the Carroll County Eastern District Courthouse in Berryville, from left to right, are city council Members Pat Elwood, Lynn Dumas and Linda Graves, Mayor Dan Kees, recorder-treasurer Wes Stille, and council members Jerry Pittman and Ken Mills.
Submitted photo
A former Green Forest resident who was arrested in August 2019 after allegedly threatening to commit a mass shooting at the Carroll County Eastern District Courthouse has been sentenced to five years in prison after making a plea deal with prosecutors.
Dennis Lee Whitaker, 45, was arrested on Aug. 29, 2019, after a standoff at his home in Green Forest involving officers from the Tri-City Special Response Team. During the standoff, Whitaker allegedly threatened to blow himself up, according to a news release issued by the Green Forest Police Department after his arrest.
Authorities had been actively searching for Whitaker after he allegedly threatened to commit a mass shooting and then kill himself on Aug. 26, 2019, at the Carroll County Eastern District Courthouse in Berryville. According to an affidavit written by Deputy Kenen Martinez of the Carroll County Sheriffs Office, a county dispatcher received a tip that Whitaker had stated he was planning to bring a gun to the ci