This is a roundup of felony charges filed April 11-28, 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 men charged in Elliston Place shootout
Arkadelphia detectives found 14 spent 9mm casings and one live round in the parking lot at Elliston Place Apartments, 222 N. 20th St., while processing a crime scene March 22, 2025. What led them there was a 911 call of shots being fired. Piecing together information from bystanders and a witness, detectives learned that Montres Dequandre White and Albert Gates Jr., both 30 and of Arkadelphia, had gotten into a verbal altercation that led to an exchange of gunfire.
Residents from various apartment buildings would tell police that they heard gunshots and saw vehicles driving away from the scene. One witness met with officers at the Family Dollar, where he explained that one of the suspects drove up, started an argument and started shooting. He also showed where his car had been struck by gunfire. At the apartment complex, meanwhile, police found one apartment’s exterior window frame had been struck by a bullet.
On March 25 police obtained video surveillance from a nearby business showing the incident.
A witness confirmed the suspects’ identities in a police lineup.
White was arrested on March 27. He is being charged with aggravated assault, a Class D felony that carries a prison sentence of up to 6 years and/or a fine of up to $10,000. As he is a convicted felon, White is also being charged with possession of firearms by certain persons, a Class B felony punishable by 5-20 years in prison and/or a fine of up to $15,000.
Gates is being charged with aggravated assault. An arrest warrant issued for Gates had not yet been served at the time of this writing.
Gurdon man gets Taser treatment during confrontation with deputies
A simple traffic stop turned into a confrontation that abruptly ended when a Gurdon man found himself on the wrong end of a deputy’s Taser.
On March 27, 2025 Clark County deputy sheriff Codi Hood was parked at the Gurdon intersection of highways 67 and 53 when he noticed a northbound pickup turn onto Highway 53 without signaling. Conducting a traffic stop, the driver — later identified as 60-year-old Timothy E. Lane — pulled into a the closest driveway and immediately exited the vehicle, approached Hood’s position and inquired, “What the [expletive] are you pulling me over in my driveway for?” (Deputies would later talk to the homeowner and discover that it wasn’t Lane’s property at all.)
At the traffic stop, Lane was instructed to return to his vehicle and stand at the back of it, but Lane promptly told Hood that he’d stand where he pleased on his own property.
As Hood ran Lane’s information through a crime database, Lane repeatedly reached into the cab of his truck. Deputy Aleshia Hood then arrived. The two deputies were discussing the situation when Lane approached them, swinging a long object he had pulled from the bed of his pickup.
The deputies decided enough was enough and attempted to detain Lane. As Codi Hood reached for Lane’s hand to make an arrest, Lane grabbed at Hood’s vest carrier with both hands. Codi Hood forced Lane to the ground and was able to flip him onto his stomach. Lane pulled his hands underneath his upper torso. Aleshia Hood then drive-stunned Lane with her Taser, allowing the officers to handcuff Lane.
Following the detainment, an inventory of Lane’s vehicle yielded a loaded .22 caliber pistol and a small bag containing meth in the area of the vehicle where Lane had been observed reaching into the cab. The meth weighed 2 grams.
He faces charges of possession of a Schedule I/II controlled substance, a Class D felony that could land him in prison for up to 6 years in addition to fines totaling $10,000. Lane was also charged with resisting arrest, a misdemeanor.
Home health caregiver found with meth, cash during DWI arrest
Complaints of an erratic driver led to the felony arrest of a Bismarck woman.
In addition to a misdemeanor DWI charge, 38-year-old Jessica L. Metcalf is facing felony charges of possessing methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia and endangering the welfare of a minor.
At about 11 p.m. April 7, 2025 dispatchers in Clark County broadcast to police that the reckless, northbound driver was traveling on North 10th Street/US Highway 67 between Arkadelphia and Caddo Valley. A Group 6 Narcotics agent responded to the area and observed the vehicle cross the center line as the two vehicles passed.
The agent made a U-turn and caught up with the vehicle, which had turned off the highway and onto a river access road. The agent made contact with Metcalf and a juvenile passenger. A fidgety Metcalf agreed to a series of sobriety tests, failing each one. Afterward, she gave consent to a search of the vehicle, noting that she had several thousand dollars in the car.
Law enforcement located multiple bags containing meth, each weighing less than 2 grams, in addition to drug paraphernalia and $5,250 in cash. Metcalf later admitted that she had stolen the money from an ex-boyfriend.
Metcalf listed her employer as Home Helpers of Arkansas, an in-home health care service provider.
Arkadelphia man charged for death threats
“I don’t just kill people. I kill families.”
Those were the alleged words 43-year-old Brandon Keith Ware used as he entered a Country Club Road residence in search of a woman he had impregnated.
Ware then reportedly exited the apartment and left in an unknown direction.
Two days after the threats were made, the female’s parents filed a complaint at the Arkadelphia Police Department, saying that Ware had been “aggressively” searching for their daughter. Even the father’s ex-wife wasn’t immune to Ware’s death threats. Following Ware’s arrest on April 1, a judge ruled that Ware shall not make contact with any of the four victims named in the threats. Bond was also set, at $75,000, during his first court appearance on April 2.
Ware is charged with terroristic threatening, a Class D felony. If convicted, he could serve up to 6 years in prison be ordered to pay up to $10,000 in fines.
Loud exhaust turns to traffic stop
A Group 6 Narcotics Unit agent was in Amity’s Pine Street when he heard the window-rattling exhaust of a pickup truck and saw items hanging from the vehicle’s rearview mirror.
A traffic stop was conducted at Dollar General. The vehicle’s driver was identified as Seth Alan Howell, 46, of Amity. The present odor of marijuana led to questioning and the admission of pot being inside the truck. A search of the vehicle yielded two bags of marijuana and a bag of crystal meth. The meth weighed 1.9 grams; the affidavit doesn’t specify the weight of the marijuana.
Howell was arrested and taken to the county jail. He is charged with possession of a Schedule I/II controlled substance. Given his status as a habitual offender, prosecutors are seeking an enhanced sentence of up to 12 years in prison.
Agents use informant to bust meth dealer
Agents with Group 6 Narcotics Unit used a confidential informant to make a controlled buy of methamphetamine at the Sylvia Street home of Buddy Allan Anderson, 49, of Arkadelphia.
Court documents say the informant was given police buy money to secure a transaction of half an ounce of meth, and returned from the deal with 17.6 grams (roughly a quarter ounce). A recording device captured Anderson suggesting the customer return later for more meth.
Anderson was arrested on March 25. He’s being charged with delivery of meth or cocaine, a Class Y felony given Anderson’s status as a habitual offender. The sentence carries a prison term of 10-60 years.
Illegal turn leads to drug bust
A Gum Springs man’s wide turn into the opposite lane of travel led to his arrest for charges of drug possession.
On April 9, a Group 6 Narcotics agent observed a pickup turn west onto Pine Street from W.P. Malone Drive, entering an eastbound lane in the process. A traffic stop was made at Allen’s BBQ, and contact was made with Robert Leon Mauldin, 38.
The odor of marijuana raised suspicions for the agent, who asked Mauldin to step out of the vehicle. Denying he had any contraband, the agent learned otherwise when he reached into Mauldin’s pants pocket and retrieved a bag containing a crystal substance.
A search of the vehicle ensued, leading to the discovery of a zipper bag containing several more bags of meth, as well as bags of marijuana, pills and drug paraphernalia. Mauldin was taken to the county jail. The meth weighed 25.4 grams, and the pot weighed 21.2 grams.
Mauldin has been charged with possession of methamphetamine with purpose to deliver, a Class A felony punishable by 6-30 years in prison and/or a fine of up to $15,000; possession of drug paraphernalia, possession with purpose to deliver a Schedule VI controlled substance, and possession of a Schedule I/II controlled substance that is not methamphetamine, all Class D felonies, each carrying a prison term of up to six years and/or a fine of up to $10,000.
Okolona man arrested during search warrant bust in Arkadelphia
On March 25, 2025 officers executed a search warrant at a Sylvia Street residence.
Among the several people detained was Mark Anthony Dilbeck, 59, of Okolona. A search of his person yielded 1 gram of methamphetamine in a metal container found in his pants pocket.
The affidavit does not indicate whether other arrests were made as a result of the search warrant.
Dilbeck is charged with possession of a Schedule I/II controlled substance, a Class D felony punishable by up to 6 years in prison and/or a fine of up to $10,000.
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