Child porn charge results in federal prison sentence

LITTLE ROCK—A Little Rock man was sentenced late Thursday on one count of possession of child pornography. United States District Court Judge Kristine Baker sentenced Bryan Shannon, 54, to 135 months in federal prison. In February 2019, an undercover FBI agent posted an online advertisement... Read More.
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Bomb threats draw federal prison sentence

FORT SMITH – A Fort Smith man was sentenced to 36 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of Mailing a Threatening Communication. The Honorable Judge P.K. Holmes III presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court... Read More.
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Appeals Court upholds King conviction and sentence

By Ray King The Arkansas Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld the conviction and 50-year prison sentence of a Pine Bluff man convicted of two counts of first-degree battery in 2019. Following a jury trial, Eddie Dale King, 37, was convicted in the October 9, 2018... Read More.

Governor to commute sentence of water pistol robber

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said this week he intends to commute the sentence of a man who’s been serving life in prison for robbing a taco shop in 1981 with a water pistol. Hutchinson on Thursday announced he intended to... Read More.
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False disability claims result in federal prison sentence

LITTLE ROCK—A Little Rock man was sentenced for collecting over $250,000 in Social Security Disability payments when he was not actually disabled. Levell Baltimore, Jr., 45, was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison by United States District Judge James M. Moody, Jr. In 2005,... Read More.

Appeals Court rejects challenge to prison sentence

By Ray King The Arkansas Court of Appeals on Wednesday rejected claims by an inmate in the Arkansas Department of Corrections that the court that convicted him did not have jurisdiction in the case. Gary Lee Gould, 39, was sentenced as an habitual offender to 480... Read More.
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Ex-politician Appeals Sentence in Arkansas Child Smuggling Scheme

PHOENIX (AP) — A former Arizona politician who acknowledged running an illegal adoption scheme in three states that involved birth mothers from the Marshall Islands has asked an appeals court to throw out his six-year prison sentence. The lawyer for former Maricopa County Assessor Paul... Read More.

Supreme Court rejects unconstitutional sentence claim

By Ray King The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that Circuit Judge Jodi Raines Dennis did not err when she denied a claim by a prison inmate that his sentence was unconstitutional. Rico Benton, now 47, pleaded guilty to capital murder in Hempstead County in... Read More.
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