Former sheriff deputy arrested on sexual assault and child porn charges
Arkansas State Police (ASP) arrested a Gosnell man on Wednesday, March 27, charging him with First-Degree Sexual Assault and Distributing, Possessing, or Viewing of Matter Depicting Sexually Explicit Conduct Involving a Child.
ASP Special Agents located Colton Crabb, 26, at his residence in Gosnell and arrested him without incident. ASP transported Crabb to the Mississippi County Detention Center, where his bail was set for $50,000.
Crabb was employed with the Blytheville Police Department before being hired at the Mississippi County Sheriff’s Office. Crabb is no longer a law enforcement officer.
Arrest in Calhoun County homicide
On Tuesday, March 26, Arkansas State Police (ASP) Special Agents arrested Faith Marie White, 42, charging her with First-Degree Murder in the death of George Haynes, 62, of El Dorado.
Haynes was found deceased in his residence on April 16, 2023, on East Calhoun Road in Calhoun County.
Special Agents interviewed White at the Calhoun County Detention Center, where she was being held on unrelated charges.
Robocaller taken to court
LITTLE ROCK – Attorney General Tim Griffin today issued the following statement after announcing that he and seven other state attorneys general are asking the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas to take additional action against a Texas based robocaller for violating permanent robocall and telemarketing bans:
“In March of last year, my office obtained judgments shutting down the massive robocall operation of Rising Eagle Capital Group, LLC, and other companies owned by John Caldwell Spiller, II. As part of the judgment, Spiller was banned from making robocalls or engaging in telemarketing. Spiller has ignored those bans, and we are asking the court to enforce the $122 million fine against Spiller that was suspended contingent upon honoring the terms of the judgment.
“Unwanted calls are a nuisance to every Arkansan. I will continue to combat robocallers who ignore the law and the courts.”
Despite the permanent injunction against Spiller in March 2023, he continued to harass people by making deceptive and abusive robocalls and by helping others make these calls. Spiller used aliases and falsified business records filed in various states and with the Federal Communications Commission. Further, since being originally sued, Spiller has set up at least three new businesses through which he engaged in telemarketing and facilitated robocalls.
Because he violated these bans on robocalling and telemarketing, Griffin and the attorneys general of Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio and Texas are asking the court to ban Spiller from engaging in all telephone-related services, not just robocalling and telemarketing. That includes transmitting telephone calls over the U.S. telephone network, providing any VoIP services, engaging in text messaging services, and originating or facilitating ringless voicemail messages or any other electronic messages.
The attorneys general are also asking that the court order Spiller to dissolve his existing telephone service companies. They also ask that Spiller be ordered to pay $122,339,320—the amount that would have otherwise been suspended if Spiller had followed the rules of the permanent injunction and the court’s order. Because he failed to do so, he is obligated to pay the full amount.
Illegal narcotics seized during traffic stop
WEST MEMPHIS — On Wednesday, March 27, around 3:20 p.m., an Arkansas State Police (ASP) Trooper initiated a traffic stop near the 265-mile marker on Interstate 40 Eastbound in Crittenden County.
During a search of the vehicle, the Trooper located various narcotics, including marijuana candy, hash powder, marijuana buds, and psychedelic mushrooms.
ASP transported the driver of the vehicle, William Mixon, 58, of Oklahoma, to the Crittenden County Detention Center, where he was charged with Possession of a Schedule I or II Substance that is not Methamphetamine or Cocaine with the Purpose to Deliver and Possession of a Schedule VI Controlled Substance with the Purpose to Deliver.
