Each Arkansas congressional district incumbent faces Democratic opponents for the 2024 election. Rep. Steve Womack is the only incumbent to face a primary opponent.
Fort Smith, Arkansas – David Clay Fowlkes, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that on April 14, 2021, the final of six (6) individuals were sentenced by the United States District Court for their roles in a methamphetamine trafficking ring which operated in Benton County, Arkansas and other jurisdictions such as California and Missouri. This investigation and prosecution, named Operation Inner Circle, lasted from approximately January of 2019 through today s final sentencing hearing. The Honorable Judge Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearings in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
According to court records, in early 2019, Homeland Security Investigations Fayetteville initiated an investigation which revealed that a methamphetamine distributor in Los Angeles, Zeache Dupree Rose, would supply methamphetamine to local sellers of methamphetamine Michael James Smith, Craig Ryan Kelley and Joseph A. James, who w