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This is a roundup of felony charges filed Feb. 28 through March 14, 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 police nab suspect in vape shop burglary
Arkadelphia police made quick work of a commercial burglary investigation, arresting a suspect who allegedly disarmed the alarm system at Smoke Buddies and made off with a safe full of cash.
On the morning of Feb. 18, 2025, officers were summoned to the plaza at 2607 Caddo St., where staff at the vape shop reported the business had been broken into — likely by someone with a key. The suspect, it was noted, took a safe containing a large sum of money.
That same day police arrested 45-year-old Allison Leigh McKittrick, of Arkadelphia, on charges of commercial burglary.
In the meantime, investigators reviewed store surveillance footage of a male using a key to unlock and enter the store during the pre-dawn hours. The male was inside for about a minute before his exit, and five minutes later a white female, covering her face with clothing, entered the store. She was seen exiting one minute later carrying a safe. The same camera captured an employee inside the store the previous evening wearing the same clothes.
Detectives also reviewed the alarm system and discovered its keypad’s built-in camera photographed McKittrick disarming the system about the time of the alleged burglary. Exterior surveillance captured McKittrick’s SUV in the area at the time of the crime.
McKittrick was arrested in a traffic stop that same day. A search of her residence yielded clothing that matched what the suspect was wearing. Police later went to a Caddo Valley wrecker service and executed a search warrant on McKittrick’s vehicle, finding meth and paraphernalia.
McKittrick is charged with commercial burglary, a Class C felony punishable by 3-10 years in prison and/or a fine of up to $10,000; theft of property between $1,000-$5,000, a Class D felony that carries a prison sentence of up to 6 years and/or a fine of up to $10,000; and possession of a Schedule I/II controlled substance, also a Class D felony.
Charges filed in New Year’s drive-by shooting
Shots rang out just after midnight on New Year’s Eve 2025, but they weren’t celebratory fireworks.
A Gurdon man has been charged in connection with a Jan. 1 drive-by shooting outside an Arkadelphia residence.
At 12:34 a.m. Arkadelphia police were dispatched to the 1700 block of Sylvia Street, where a woman reported she had been physically assaulted by a known female who then fled the scene in a vehicle. Four minutes later, the woman phoned police again to report the female had returned and that someone had shot at her house.
Officers located the suspect in a vehicle and learned that she had gone to the area to “discuss marijuana” when the Sylvia Street woman exited her residence and pointed a gun at her and physically assaulted her. Police also learned during that conversation that 18-year-old Juquavion Kashun Gulley later returned to the residence and shot a firearm, according to a police affidavit.
Officers went to the Sylvia Street residence and found two spent shell casings on the street and two places on the residence exterior that appeared to have been struck by gunfire. Inside, they observed two rooms where bullets had entered the home: one bullet struck a rear wall, and another struck a kitchen appliance.
Police were also provided surveillance video that corroborated what they had been told, leading to a warrant for Gulley’s arrest. He was taken into custody on Jan. 19.
Prosecutors are charging Gulley with one count of committing a terroristic act, a Class B felony punishable by 5-20 years in prison and/or a fine of up to $15,000.
Unplugged fireplug floods Beirne
A Beirne man found out the hard way not to fool with fire hydrants.
The Gurdon Marshal’s Office got a complaint from the city’s water department on Feb. 28, 2025, about a fire hydrant that had been tampered with on Highway 51 South in Beirne. The hydrant, located next to Jeffrey Deane Clemmens’s driveway, was spraying water onto the road and in the yards of nearby homes.
One person would tell police that he saw Clemmens parked next to the hydrant that morning and “messing with it.” Clemmens, 48, reportedly parked alongside the hydrant with a utility trailer with a large water tank and a pressure washer. When the hydrant was broken, Clemmens phoned the water department to complain about it.
Water reportedly gushed from the hydrant throughout the day. A Lockesburg company was called in to repair the hydrant, which would be fixed “hours later, into the night,” a police affidavit notes. Gurdon’s water system, meanwhile, suffered a loss of some 10,000 gallons of water — about half the volume of an average swimming pool — as well as a loss of water pressure and “possibly other issues that at this time are unknown.” The water loss and repairs totaled an estimated $2,520.
A warrant for Clemmens’s arrest was issued on March 5. He’s being charged with criminal mischief causing damages between $1,000-$5,000, a Class D felony that carries a prison sentence of up to six years and/or a fine of up to $10,000.
Arrest made after gun found in wrecked, abandoned vehicle
A 19-year-old felon is facing new charges after he allegedly abandoned a wrecked vehicle, leaving behind a loaded weapon at the scene.
Police say Francisco Jesus Ortiz, of Gurdon, left the scene of a rollover accident on Feb. 12, 2025. Deputies with the Clark County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to 7614 Highway 67 South, between Gurdon Public Schools and Gurdon Lake, when a caller advised that a vehicle was flipped over in her driveway.
Police responded but found no one around the vehicle; a search ensued, and yielded the discovery of a chambered 9mm pistol with a 30-round magazine. The smoking gun that would lead to an arrest warrant, however, would be a driver’s license belonging to Ortiz. At some point investigators found a Snapchat video of Ortiz flourishing the same weapon.
With a felony conviction in Texas and a current no-contact order in place in Clark County, Ortiz isn’t allowed to possess a firearm. An arrest warrant was served on the probationer and registered sex offender on Feb. 25.
Ortiz is being charged with possession of a firearm by a certain person and theft of property valued at more than $25,000, both Class B felonies punishable by 5-20 years in prison and/or a fine of up to $15,000. He’s also charged with fleeing the scene of an accident, a Class D felony that carries a prison sentence of up to 6 years and/or a fine of up to $10,000.
Amity man charged in two counties for sexual assault
Prosecutors are going after a north Clark County man who allegedly had sexual relations with a teenaged girl.
The case dates to Oct. 11, 2024, when deputy sheriffs were called to Bradley Ryan Neighbors’s home in Amity in response to a complaint of a 25-year-old in bed with a young female. Police arrived at the Walker Road home and placed Neighbors in custody for an arrest warrant originating in Montgomery County.
According to court records, Neighbors was sentenced in January in Montgomery County to four years in prison, with 18 months suspended, for a charge of fourth-degree sexual assault. That offense dates to December 2023.
Before his Montgomery County sentence was handed down, Clark County officials were in the process of building a case against him. Investigator Sherry Cleek gathered evidence based on an October interview conducted by the Percy and Donna Malone Child Safety Center, and filed charges in March.
Prosecutors have officially charged Neighbors with second-degree sexual assault, a Class B felony punishable by 5-20 years in prison and/or a fine of up to $15,000.
Gurdon sex offender nabbed for ignoring registration deadline
A registered sex offender with a lengthy criminal history is facing prison time for failing to register.
Kenneth Ray Ross, 60, of Gurdon, is a Level 3 sex offender registered in Clark County. Ross is required to renew his registration twice annually. An affidavit notes that Ross neglected to report by his January 2025 deadline and was still delinquent at the time an arrest warrant was issued in early February.
He was arrested on Feb. 25. Bond was set at $30,000.
Ross is charged with failure to register, and prosecutors are seeking a sentence enhancement given his status as a habitual offender. If convicted of the Class C felony, Ross could spend 3-30 years in prison.
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