Special agent reveals details of Delta probe
A former Helena-West Helena police lieutenant wasn’t an initial target of a public-corruption investigation in eastern Arkansas, but a fellow officer named her…
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Trial under way for officer in Delta Blues case
Jury selection has started in the trial for the only police officer not to plead guilty among five indicted last year in a broad federal investigation into cor…
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Rifle-toting ‘pot’ seller gets 5 years in Delta Blues case
A federal judge ordered a five-year prison sentence Tuesday for a Helena-West Helena man who admitted to trafficking pounds of marijuana and possessing an AK-4…
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4 sentenced in Delta drug-trafficking
Four more defendants in the ongoing drug-trafficking and public-corruption investigation known as Operation Delta Blues were sentenced to prison Tuesday and We…
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Guns case shows ripple effect
Part four in a series A Helena-West Helena man admitted in federal court Thursday that he spent months dealing drugs and illegally building up a small cache of…
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Ex-probation officer pleads innocent
A former state probation and parole officer pleaded innocent Tuesday morning to a federal indictment accusing her of turning a blind eye to the drug traffickin…
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Ex-probation officer indicted in 'Delta Blues' case pleads innocent
A former probation officer charged with extortion in an ongoing federal investigation into drug dealing and corruption in eastern Arkansas has entered an innoc…
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Drug-ring member gets 11 years
A Helena-West Helena man who let two drug kingpins use his house to store firearms and sell crack cocaine was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison Tuesday.
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2 days after FBI arrest, state parole officer resigns
A state parole and probation officer, accused of taking bribes from a Marianna drug kingpin convicted of murder, resigned Wednesday, two days after her arrest …
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Parole officer is Delta arrestee
A convicted murderer and Marianna drug kingpin admitted Monday that he bribed his parole officer with cash, gifts and shoes in exchange for turning a blind eye…
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State parole, probation officer arrested in Delta Blues case
The Department of Justice has arrested an Arkansas Department of Community Corrections parole/probation officer in connection to an east Arkansas drug ring inv…
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2 plead guilty in Delta Blues case
Two Helena-West Helena men admitted in federal court Friday to their roles in two drug-trafficking rings that funneled hundreds of pounds cocaine and marijuana…
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Two plead guilty in east Arkansas corruption probe
Two people charged in a drug and police corruption investigation in east Arkansas have entered guilty pleas in federal court.
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Mississippian gets 11 years in Delta drug sweep
A Mississippi man known as “Kocaine Krazy,” who has admitted hiding cocaine in a state police car after a traffic stop and participating in a cocaine-trafficki…
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3 plead guilty in Delta Blues cocaine cases
State prison work-release inmate Andre Roddy was supposed to be mowing lawns and washing police cars while in custody at the Prairie County jail.