Delta Blues

  • Sentence is given Helena ex-officer

    The only law-enforcement officer to go to trial in a federal drug and public-corruption case centered in Helena-West Helena was sentenced Thursday to 2½ years …

    by Linda Satter April 12, 2013

  • Delta Blues officer sentenced to 2.5 years

    A former police officer convicted of charges tied to a broad investigation into corruption and drug trafficking in eastern Arkansas has been sentenced.

    by Arkansas Online April 11, 2013

  • Delta drug dealer gets 200 months

    A federal judge ordered a nearly 17-year prison term Friday for a Helena-West Helena man whom federal agents recorded in 2011 complaining about the quality of …

    by Chad Day March 16, 2013

  • Lee County drug dealer gets 25 years

    A Lee County convicted rapist and drug dealer who shot at federal agents as they tried to arrest him in 2011 was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday.

    by Chad Day March 9, 2013

  • Probation agency will supervise man

    A change of heart by the U.S. Probation Office for the Middle District of Tennessee has spared Operation Delta Blues defendant Donnie Mitchell from a resentenc…

    by Linda Satter March 8, 2013

  • Agency refuses to tend convict

    A Helena-West Helena man, sentenced Wednesday to “time served” instead of a prison sentence after a federal judge learned that he was relieved to be arrested a…

    by Linda Satter March 2, 2013

  • Marvell woman gets two years in cocaine case

    A Marvell woman who served as an unpaid courier for a drug-trafficking operation that imported cocaine from Dallas into the Helena-West Helena area in 2008 and…

    by Linda Satter March 1, 2013

  • Man gets five years in Delta drug case

    A Helena-West Helena drug dealer received a five year sentence in federal court Friday for the role he played in a multi-state drug trafficking ring that funne…

    by Cathy Frye February 16, 2013

  • Helena man admits being drug runner

    For nearly two years, Jessie Brewer’s apartment in Helena-West Helena was known to crack dealers and users as “The Projects,” a place where guns were stashed a…

    by Chad Day January 18, 2013

  • Kalb found guilty on drug, extortion charges

    A former police officer charged in a broad investigation into corruption and drug trafficking in eastern Arkansas has been found guilty of extortion and attemp…

    by Gavin Lesnick December 14, 2012

  • Jury gets Delta drug-escort case

    Shortly before jurors began deliberating Thursday on public-corruption charges against a former Helena-West Helena police lieutenant, a federal prosecutor aske…

    by Linda Satter December 14, 2012

  • Framed by FBI ally, says ex-officer

    A former Helena-West Helena police lieutenant testified Wednesday during her trial that she was set up by an FBI informant who made it falsely appear in secret…

    by Linda Satter , Chad Day December 13, 2012

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