A Saline County woman indicted in 2019 as part of a fentanyl distribution ring operated by her then-boyfriend was sentenced to four years probation by a federal judge Wednesday for her part in the conspiracy.
A Little Rock man who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and identity theft was sentenced to spend nine years in federal prison and to pay more than a half-million dollars in restitution stemming from a series of fraudulent loans he admitted to taking out in 2019 and 2020.
Pulaski County jurors, tasked with deciding whether the fatal shooting of a Little Rock man at a pizza restaurant was murder or self-defense, could not reach the required unanimous verdict Thursday, forcing the first-degree murder trial of Domeque Latice Jones to end in mistrial.
Krystal Rena White said she knew there was trouble brewing when the Little Rock pizza restaurant worker tossed her bread sticks on the counter, knocking the marinara sauce to the floor before greeting her boyfriend with profanity and a racial slur.
A Little Rock police officer's accidental disclosure that murder defendant Scott Andrew Severance has been in trouble with the law before led to a mistrial Wednesday at the request of his defense team.