BENTON – Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge today awarded the Following Officers:
Cleburne County Outstanding Law Enforcement Officer of the Year Award to Wildlife Officer Briston Gould with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.
Conway County Outstanding Law Enforcement Officer of the Year Award to Corporal Josh Howard with the Morrilton Police Department.
Independence County Outstanding Law Enforcement Officer of the Year Award to Deputy Jordan Harder and Deputy Bobby Tate with the Independence County Sheriff’s Office.
Izard County Outstanding Law Enforcement Officer of the Year Award to Sergeant Kyle Moody with the Arkansas Department of Correction.
Searcy County Outstanding Law Enforcement Officer of the Year Award to Sex Offender Coordinator Cari Seaton with the Searcy County Sheriff’s Office.
Photo: Chris Brim
A Jordan man who has gotten in trouble twice for possessing or threatening to use firearms appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court Monday.
Forty-year-old Chris Brim was sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm. He was booked into the Baxter County jail to await transportation to the Arkansas Department of Correction.
His initial arrest came in mid-March 2019 and stemmed from his involvement in a heated dispute over possession of a pickup truck.
Brim was reported to have been to a residence along Baxter County County Road 419 on two occasions to try and retrieve the truck. The vehicle was registered to his mother and her estranged husband who were then living at the County Road 419 address.
Photo: Harold Saeler A Marion County man sentenced to 10 years in the Arkansas Department of Correction in 2020 is facing a new charge in Baxter County.
Photo: Nathan Siebrasse
A Marion County man, 43-year-old Nathan Siebrasse of Yellville, has been sentenced to 15 years in the Arkansas Department of Correction after pleading guilty to two counts of second-degree sexual assault.
Online court documents indicate Siebrasse entered the plea last month in Marion County Circuit Court.
The sentence follows Siebrasse’s arrest on Christmas in 2018. At that time, Marion County Sheriff Clinton Evans said the arrest followed his department receiving a call concerning a physical domestic dispute at a residence in Yellville.
While deputies were investigating the domestic dispute, a juvenile female made officers aware of alleged sexual contact with Siebrasse. During the course of the investigation, officers were told Siebrasse had been having a sexual relationship with a then 15-year-old female since August of that year.
The Arkansas Court of Appeals has turned down the post conviction relief sought by a Mountain Home woman convicted in a child abuse case
Thirty-four-year-old Alyssia Kirby-Snow was found guilty by a Baxter County Circuit Court jury in early February 2018 of permitting child abuse and endangering the welfare of a minor. The jury acquitted her of first-degree battery.
She was sentenced to 26 years in prison for her alleged involvement in actions that left her then 3-week-old son seriously injured.
Kirby-Snow was represented in her appeal by Little Rock attorney Charles Hancock.
Hancock asked the court of appeals to reverse and dismiss the verdicts against his client or, alternatively, to send the case back to Baxter County Circuit Court for a new trial.