On January 31, 2012, Elmore Shaw, 19, of Hope was arrested and charged with Felony Battery 3rd and Battery in the 2nd degree.
On January 31, 2012, Detective Andrew Watson of the Hope Police Department
arrested Walter D. Nabors, 28, of Hope, for two counts of Forgery 2nd degree
and two counts of Theft under $1000.
Hempstead County Sheriff James Singleton reported changes to the department in a review with the Hempstead County Quorum Court after serving one year in office, among other changes to county business.
A Spring Hill resident taking a walk Monday morning reported a residential fire to which Spring Hill Volunteer Fire Department firefighters responded, but the older residence, which was occupied but with no-one home at the time, was a complete loss. See more details in the Tuesday edition of the Hope Star. (Photo by Gerren Smith/Hope Star)
A fully equipped search and rescue boat will soon be part of improvements to the Hempstead County Sheriff's Department, according to Sheriff James Singleton.
Singleton gave a detailed report at Thursday's Hempstead County Quorum Court meeting of accomplishment's during his first year as sheriff.
On January 24, 2012, officers of the Hope Police Department responded to
the 1700 block of East 8th Street in reference to a disturbance. Patrick Parmer,
20, of Hope was arrested and charged with Terroristic Threatening, Domestic
Battery 3rd degree, and Endangering the Welfare of a Minor 3rd degree.
OnJanuary 19, 2012, officers of the Hope Police Department responded to a
burglary in progress in the 500 block of South Laural Street. The victim,
Kristi Fields advised that her ex-boyfriend, James R. Stewart, 23, of Hope,
came into her home uninvited and started a physical altercation with her.
A “forensic evaluation” is to be conducted upon Jared Dundee, 28, of Rosston, prior to the start of trial April 16 of a major habitual offender-enhanced charge of first degree murder against Dundee in connection with the death of Jon Michael Fincher, 37, of Hope, in October, 2006.
Hempstead County authorities think a Pike County man who disappeared during May, 2011, flash flood, and was wanted locally on failure to appear warrants stemming from a 2010 drug raid, is alive and hiding out of state.
Hempstead County Coroner Ben Brazzel literally opened the door to a new tool for his office here Friday in a demonstration of a portable cadaver storage unit, one of six loaned to county's statewide by the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory.
“We have had such a need for it for a number of years for matters of death to be determined, investigative purposes, bodies to be delivered to the Arkansas State Crime Lab for identification purposes,” Brazzel explained.
Authorities here say Donald Hux entered 51-year-old Sandy Huckabee’s residence and shot him point-blank with a 12-gauge shotgun, an Arkansas State Crime Laboratory autopsy revealed Monday afternoon.
Hempstead County lawmen are looking for a man who has been operating a prize for pay scam in Hope and Hempstead County; while, Hope police are seeking a violent robber who struck a business clerk.
Hempstead County Sheriff James Singleton issued a statement Thursday afternoon warning residents to beware of a man purporting to be a John Peterson, offering a large cash prize and a new car in exchange for a pre-paid credit card totaling $300-$500.
The Hope Police Department will apparently receive seed money from a state-based USDA grant program toward bringing a proposed new evidence storage facility to reality.
HPD Chief J. R. Wilson appeared before the Hope City Board of Directors at the board's Tuesday session seeking authority to proceed in the USDA-backed Arkansas Department of Rural Services General Improvement Fund grant process, despite not having received notification whether the City qualified for an initial request of $37,500.
On January 14, 2012 at approximately 1:30 PM Deputies were dispatched to the 1300 block of Hempstead 50 in reference to a theft of property.
On Friday January 13, 2012 at approximately 3:23PM Deputies were dispatched to the 5800 block of Highway 29 North in Blevins in reference to a person with a gun.
Deputies made contact with the caller who stated that her son Eddie Harris who had been in jail for the past three years in Texas for Domestic Battery had a stolen gun and was trying to sell it to another .....
