This is a roundup of felony charges filed Feb. 14-28, 2025, by the Clark County Prosecutor’s Office. Some defendants may also have misdemeanor charges against them, but most are not included here. The following names and charges, which are contained within public documents, are gathered from online court records available through ARCourts. Defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Here’s a rundown of felony cases filed in the past two weeks:
Arkadelphia man charged in barber shop burglary
An Arkadelphia man learned the hard way that police will comb through the evidence when attempting to solve a barber shop burglary.
On the morning of Feb. 11, 2025, Arkadelphia police were summoned to Unique Barber Service, 138 N. 14th St., for a complaint of a burglary. The barbers pointed officers to the burglar’s point of entry, saying the suspect likely took a short cut into the business by removing an air-conditioning unit.
Among the items the thief took were a gaming console and just a hair more than $40 in cash and coins. Police reviewed surveillance footage that showed the burglar’s face and distinctive clothing before he parted ways with the barber shop. Investigators decided to take what evidence they had and mullet over until they could find a break in the case.
It was either shear luck or shaving grace that an officer spotted a suspect matching the description in the Walgreens parking lot on the morning of Feb. 16, five days after the burglary had been reported. Contact was made with 21-year-old Rasheem Davis, who was wearing a hoodie believed to be the same one the suspect wore during the alleged burglary. Davis, of Arkadelphia, was detained and taken to the police department, whereupon hearing the perms and conditions of his rights confessed to the burglary.
Prosecutor Dan Turner trimmed nothing from the police indictment, which included charges of misdemeanor property theft and commercial burglary, a Class C felony punishable by 3-10 years in prison and/or a fine of up to $10,000.
The police chief praised APD’s patrol division for its undyeing and never-fading efforts in making quick work of apprehending the suspect.
No-contact violation ends in felony drug arrest
Assisting Gurdon police in locating a man who had violated a no-contact order, a deputy with the Clark County Sheriff’s Office located a suspect vehicle in Joan on the afternoon of Feb. 14, 2025.
The deputy made a traffic stop on Trenton Clark Coppedge’s pickup truck in Joan and awaited the arrival of the Gurdon officer.
In an apparent plea to halt arrest, Coppedge provided police with video evidence on his phone of the protected female, dated Feb. 3, showing the two being intimate. But it wouldn’t be enough to keep the 29-year-old Coppedge out of jail.
A subsequent search of the vehicle led to the discovery of Clonazepam pills and 0.15 grams of methamphetamine. In a Feb. 17 police interview Coppedge admitted ownership of the meth and the medication for which he did not have a prescription.
Coppedge is being charged with possession of a Schedule I/II controlled substance (methamphetamine), a Class D felony that carries a prison sentence of up to 6 years and/or a fine of up to $10,000, as well as a misdemeanor drug charge punishable by up to one year in jail.
Dan Turner is prosecuting the case, and public defender Joseph Jackson is representing Coppedge.
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