Court News
Todd James Richard Chapman, 20, of Mountain Home, Arkansas, is being held in the Ozark County Jail on a $5,000 cash-only bond in connection with aiding a 14-year-old Ozark County girl with running away from her home in July.
An Ozark County grand jury indictment was filed in the case Sept. 8...
Victoria “Tori” Fowler, 30, of Caulfield, has been indicted by a Howell County grand jury with three counts of statutory rape and one count of statutory sodomy in connection with allegations of an inappropriate romantic and sexual relationship with a 16-year-old student she met while she was...
Circuit Judge Craig Carter processed a total of 22 cases during the Sept. 6 session of Ozark County Law Day. Updates on the criminal cases are listed here:
Plea, sentencing
Tiger Wood Tolliver pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled substance and was given a suspended imposition of sentence...
Kenneth Cowart
Kenneth Cowart, 25, of Gainesville, is scheduled to appear in court today for a bond reduction hearing before Associate Judge Raymond Gross in a case in which he’s charged with two class E felonies of assault and domestic assault.
He was arrested Aug. 29 and has been held in jail without bond...
Tyelor Estes
Tyelor Estes, 25, of Gainesville, is currently being held in the Ozark County Jail without bond after being charged with the unclassified felony of sexual trafficking of a child (under 18) and the class A misdemeanor of furnishing pornographic material to a minor. He was arrested Aug. 29 and has...
Samuel Deatherage
Samuel Deatherage, 21, of Tecumseh, has been held in the Ozark County Jail without bond since he was arrested Aug. 30 for allegedly opening fire on a group of family members including three children while in an intoxicated state after drinking nearly a full 750 milliliter bottle of tequila by...
Circuit Judge Craig Carter presided over 27 cases during the Aug. 23 docket in Ozark County. Updates in the cases are listed below:
Pleas, sentencing
Curtis Gray pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of domestic assault (originally filed as a felony and then reduced to a misdemeanor). He was...
A Clarkridge, Ark. man that had been accused of starting multiple fires in Ozark and Baxter Counties during an October 2022 drought pled guilty in Baxter County, Arkansas, court to one count of reckless burning on Monday, according to Ozark Radio News.
The case came to light last fall after...
On Aug. 2, Ozark County Sheriff’s Department Lt. Matt Rhoades was conducting a patrol in the Bakersfield area when he located a vehicle at a residence that was registered to Lawrence Pierce, who had an active felony warrant for his arrest.
Once additional deputies arrived in the area, they...
Circuit Judge Craig Carter processed a total of nine civil cases and 13 criminal cases during the Aug. 9 session of Ozark County Law Day. Updates on the criminal cases are listed here:
Guilty plea, sentencing
Julia Anne Lesh, who pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled substance in May 2019...