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DPS, ASP INITIATIVE PREPARES ARKANSAS COMMUNITES FOR MASS VIOLENCE INCIDENTS

November 25, 2025 During the gatherings, DPS Secretary and Arkansas State Police (ASP) Director Col. Mike Hagar and Dallas County Sheriff Mike Knoedl discussed how the Fordyce community was impacted by the June 21, 2024, shooting at the Mad Butcher grocery store. CONWAY, Ark. – Last week, the Arkansas Department of Public Safety (DPS) concluded a

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ASP CID INVESTIGATES FATAL OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTING IN PINE BLUFF

November 22, 2025 PINE BLUFF, Ark. — At the request of the Pine Bluff Police Department (PBPD), the Arkansas State Police (ASP) Criminal Investigation Division (CID) is investigating an officer-involved shooting that occurred Friday, November 21, 2025, and resulted in the death of a Pine Bluff man. PBPD officers attempted a traffic stop on West

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FORMER JONESBORO POLICE OFFICER ENTERS GUILTY PLEA IN 2024 INCIDENT

November 19, 2025 JONESBORO, Ark. — On Tuesday, November 18, 2025, former Jonesboro Police Department Officer Joseph Tucker Harris, 29, of Hickman, Kentucky, pleaded guilty in Craighead County Circuit Court to the felony of Filing a False Report with a Law Enforcement Agency and the misdemeanor of Third-Degree Battery. These charges stemmed from an incident

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ASP SEIZES OVER 1,900 POUNDS OF ILLEGAL DRUGS IN LONOKE COUNTY TRAFFIC STOP

November 18, 2025 LONOKE, Ark. — On Monday, November 17, 2025, at approximately 10:30 a.m., Arkansas State Police (ASP) Troopers conducted a traffic stop on a tractor-trailer near the 173-mile marker eastbound on Interstate 40 in Lonoke County, for a traffic violation. During a search of the trailer, Troopers discovered four pallets of cardboard boxes

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