NEWS HEADLINES FOR 1030-14
BOND HAS BEEN SET AT 100-THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR A 28-YEAR OLD YELL COUNTY MAN, ARRESTED BY DARDANELLE POLICE ON SUSPICION OF POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY. A NEWS RELEASE FROM THE OFFICE OF ARKANSAS ATTORNEY GENERAL DUSTIN MCDANIEL, INDICATES THAT 28-YEAR OLD RONNIE PONDER WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY ON UP TO 30 COUNTS OF DISTRIBUTING, POSSESSING OR VIEWING MATTER DEPICTING SEXUALLY EXPLICIT CONDUCT INVOLVING A CHILD. AGENTS WITH THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CYBER CRIMES UNIT EXECUTED A SEARCH WARRANT AT PONDER'S HOME IN THE 100 BLOCK OF MAPLE STREET IN DARDANELLE ON TUESDAY. DARDANELLE POLICE ASSISTED IN THE INVESTIGATION AND ARREST. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE WILL TURN OVER ITS COMPLETED CASE FILE TO 15TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT PROSECUTING ATTORNEY TOM TATUM.
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BOND HAS BEEN SET AT 75-THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR A 31-YEAR OLD HISPANIC MALE SUSPECT, ARRESTED BY POPE COUNTY SHERIFF'S AUTHORITIES ON BATTERY AND AGGRIVATED ASSAULT CHARGES. THE SUSPECT, IDENTIFIED AS ADAM RODRIGUEZ, APPEARED ON WEDNESDAY BEFORE POPE COUNTY DISTRICT JUDGE DON BOURNE. JUDGE BOURNE FOUND PROBABLE CAUSE TO THE SUSPECT OVER FOR A DECEMBER 1st PLEA AND ARRAIGNMENT HEARING IN POPE COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT.
BOND WAS ALSO SET AT 75-HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR A 43-YEAR OLD WHITE MALE SUSPECT, TAKEN INTO CUSTODY BY POPE COUNTY SHERIFF'S AUTHORITIES ON FAILURE TO REGISTER AS A SEX OFFENDER CHARGES. THE SUSPECT, IDENTIFIED AS SAMUEL MOSLEY, WILL ALSO APPEARED FOR A DECEMBER PLEA AND ARRAIGNMENT HEARING IN POPE COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT.
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EARLY VOTING NUMBERS ARE ON THE INCREASE, AS ELECTION DAY NEARS. AS OF LATE WEDNESDAY, POPE COUNTY ELECTION COMMISSION HEADQUARTERS REPORTED AN ADDITION OF 780 VOTES, BRING THE TOTAL TO 5954 CAST, THUS FAR. IN YELL COUNTY, A TOTAL OF 892 BALLOTS HAD BEEN CAST AT THE COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE IN DARDANELLE, 358 IN DANVILLE. IN JOHNSON COUNTY, 1,571 VOTES HAD BEEN RECORDED AT THE COURTHOUSE IN CLARKSVILLE. EARLY VOTING CONTINUES THRU MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3rd.
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A NUMBER OF DISTRICT RACES AND STATE CONTEST WILL BE ON THE POPE COUNTY ELECTION GENERAL ELECTION BALLOT, BUT, SEVERAL LOCAL RACES WILL ALSO BE DECIDED. THE STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 68 RACE BETWEEN CHALLENGERS TREVOR DROWN AND TACHANY EVANS, AND THE DISTRICT 73 SEAT, AS INCUMBANT JOHN WAYNE CATLETT FACES MARY BENTLEY. POPE COUNTY CIRCUIT CLERK'S RACE WILL PIT CHALLENGERS DIANE WILLCUT AND DAVID VANCE.
TWO POPE COUNTY JUSTICE OF THE PEACE RACES, MAYOR'S RACES IN RUSSELLVILLE, POTTSVILLE AND ATKINS, AND SEVERAL COUNCIL POSITIONS WILL ALSO BE DECIDED DURING THE TUESDAY ELECTION.
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