Chad Day
Recent Stories by Chad Day
Dearth of funds hinders justice
posted: 05/20/2012 5:28 a.m. Discuss
A new judge, a criminal case coordinator or more staff would help clear up a clogged court docket in Phillips County, but each of those remedies faces a big obstacle — a lack of money, say county and court officials.
Some fugitives get free pass
posted: 05/13/2012 4:54 a.m. Discuss
First in a series. A Phillips County sheriff’s entrenched practice of not filing certain warrants in state and national crime databases allows fugitives in this historic city to live with little fear of getting caught.
Drug kingpin in Delta case gets 40 years
posted: 04/19/2012 5 a.m.
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Sedrick “Binky” Trice, who bribed police officers while leading a multistate drug-trafficking ring in Helena-West Helena, was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison Wednesday.
Drug dealer fell through court cracks
posted: 04/18/2012 5:23 a.m.
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For nearly two years, Sedrick “Binky” Trice ran a thriving, multistate drug operation from an auto shop right off U.S. 49, just across from Eliza Miller Junior High School.
Beliefs of victim help killer get life
posted: 04/14/2012 3:26 a.m. Comment 1
It took jurors only two hours to decide that Lillian Wilson — bludgeoned to death two years ago in her hometown church — wouldn’t have wanted her killer sentenced to death.
Man admits running drugs in Helena case
posted: 04/12/2012 5 a.m.
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A Helena-West Helena man admitted in federal court Wednesday to funneling more than 15 kilograms of cocaine from a Mexican drug supplier to dealers in the storied Delta city over a year and a half’s time.
2 cities get count in census increased
posted: 04/02/2012 4:40 a.m. Comments 2
More than a year after the release of the 2010 Census, the U.S. Census Bureau has already revised the populations of two Arkansas cities as it corrects errors made in counting the nation’s residents.
Fake-name count added in cutting of LR officer
posted: 03/21/2012 4:33 a.m. Discuss
A man accused of cutting a Little Rock police officer with a crack pipe last week faces an additional charge after authorities learned he lied to them about his identity, a police spokesman said Tuesday.
Police beat
posted: 03/21/2012 4:15 a.m. Discuss
LR man wounded in house dispute A 31-year-old Little Rock man was recovering from multiple gunshot wounds at a Little Rock hospital Tuesday evening, a day after police say his brother-in-law shot him in a dispute over the purchase of a house.
Afghan deployment is scratched for 39th
posted: 01/28/2012 4:35 a.m. Discuss
Arkansas’ largest National Guard unit is no longer scheduled to be deployed to Afghanistan later this year, a move that comes two months after a change in an Ohio unit’s mission called into question whether the 39th Infantry Brigade Combat Team would be sent overseas.
