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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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ASP IDENTIFIES VICTIM IN POPE COUNTY HIT-AND-RUN FATALITY

November 17, 2025 RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – Arkansas State Police (ASP) has identified the victim of a hit-and-run fatality that occurred early Saturday evening, November 15, 2025, in Pope County, as George Sanborn, 82, of Russellville. Troopers responded around 6:45 p.m. to reports of a pedestrian being struck on State Highway 326 in the Happy Valley

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