This is a roundup of felony charges filed between April 28 through May 9, 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:
Trio busted for night hunting on Wildlife Management Area
Two people were cited for multiple hunting violations and another for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
At about 1:35 a.m. on Feb. 1, 2025 Arkansas Game & Fish Commission Warden Ethan Angel was patrolling for night hunting activity in the area of Amity. Traveling east on Arkansas Highway 84, he passed Caddo Bend Road and witnessed a white Chevrolet pickup traveling south on the roadway coming from the Big Timber Wildlife Management Area. The vehicle approached the intersection of the two roads and failed to stop at the posted stop sign and turned west toward Amity.
The game warden followed, witnessing as the vehicle traveled at a high rate of speed through Amity’s city limits, again failing to obey a stop sign at the intersection of highways 84 and 182, where it turned north.
The high-speed pursuit continued, with the suspect vehicle crossing the center line on the curvy highway. A traffic stop was ultimately made near the intersection of Highway 182 and Sugar Loaf Road.
The arresting game warden caught an “intense smell” of marijuana emitting from the vehicle, and observed pot roaches and a high-powered flashlight in the cab.
The driver was identified as Marty Duggan, 51, along with passengers Billy Cogburn, 48, and Michelle Sirmon, 52.
The group told the warden they had traveled down to the Caddo River to see if they would be able to get down to the river to fish. The warden noted that the river was at flood stage and not suitable for fishing at the time.
Discovering that Cogburn had felony convictions and that Sirmon was on active probationary supervision with a search waiver on file, the warden conducted a search of Cogburn, finding drug paraphernalia on his person, as well as rocks in his pocket he said he’d collected from the WMA. Removing items from AGFC-controlled property is a violation of a commission code.
Once all occupants were outside the vehicle during the search, the warden seized a loaded and chambered Ruger .308 rifle from Cogburn’s seat, as well as multiple flashlights and several items of drug paraphernalia, including a Stanley cup converted into a marijuana bong. It was later learned that the firearm in Cogburn’s seat belonged to Duggan. A Clark County deputy sheriff would soon arrive to transport Cogburn to the jail on the charge of possession of a firearm by a certain person, as well as multiple hunting-related violations.
Duggan and Sirmon were each cited for multiple hunting violations, including night hunting, hunting wildlife in a closed season and use of artificial lights to view or locate wildlife.
In Circuit Court, Cogburn is being charged with the felony possession of a firearm by a certain person, a Class D felony that carries a prison term of up to 6 years and/or a fine of up to $10,000, as well as misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance.
Couple wakes up to being shot at
There are many ways to be rudely awakened, but perhaps the most surprising is to have a suspect in your bedroom shooting at you.
That was the recent experience of two residents on North 14th Street, according to an affidavit filed by Investigator Brent Whitworth of the Group 6 Narcotics Enforcement Unit.
At almost midnight April 14, 2025 a woman called police to report that she had been awakened by a known male suspect standing over her bed shooting at her and her male companion as they slept. She told officers that the gun was aimed at her friend as the suspect apologized, saying, “Sorry Miss Lady.” The woman told police that she then got out of bed and began shoving the intruder, identified as Isaiah Terrell Means, 26, of the Manchester community, into a hallway and out the front door. She said Means was yelling at her companion, “Bet you stay away from my baby mama.” He then discharged the weapon again in the house.
In processing the scene, Whitworth collected two spent 9mm casings in the home consistent with the woman’s story. Police then went to a home on Gresham Street where Means was known to stay, and an older woman went and retrieved him; upon being asked for the gun, Means produced it for officers to seize.
Interviewed by police, Means said that when he knocked on the door, the residents’ dogs opened the door and let him in, and while standing at the foot of the bed preparing to strike the male victim, his gun went off. It accidentally fired a second time in the hallway when, Means said, he “racked the slide” and pointed the gun at the couple.
Means was found to have a previous felony conviction, which prevented him from possessing a firearm. He allegedly told police he had gotten the 9mm pistol from an unlocked car in town. A search warrant the next day by police upon the Gresham Street residence revealed the clothing that the suspect was said to have been wearing during the incident.
Means is charged with aggravated residential burglary, a Class Y felony carrying a potential penalty of 10-40 years or life in prison, and possession of a firearm by a certain person, a Class B felony.
— The Southern Standard’s Joe May provided this portion of Felony Friday
Snapchat death threats land Gurdon woman in jail
Following a pair of reports of threats made in late March 2025, a Clark County investigator reviewed a video posted to Snapchat showing 30-year-old Shakeia Dashawn Quarles making threats while claiming she was traveling at a high rate of speed with a child in the vehicle.
At one point in the video, as Quarles claims she’s driving 100 mph in a 60 mph zone, she makes verbal threats to shoot the victims’ cars up and “show y’all some Bonnie and Clyde [action] tonight.” At another point she’s seen outside an Arkadelphia residence with a silver and black handgun, pulling the slide back and making more verbal threats.
On April 2 police learned from victim accounts that Quarles had since made more threats via phone, text messaging, Facebook and Snapchat.
Investigator Rick Loy arrested Quarles the following day.
Quarles is charged with terroristric threatening and first-degree endangering the welfare of a minor, both Class D felonies that carry up to 6 years in prison, and possession of a firearm by a certain person, a Class B felony punishable by 5-20 years in prison.
In response to a public defender’s motion to seek a mental evaluation, Circuit Judge Blake Batson ordered an examination by the Division of Aging, Adult and Behavioral Health Services.
Hitchhiker gets violent during lift home
On April 17, 2025 Arkadelphia police were called to an assault that had reportedly occurred at Pine Court Apartments, 120 N. 20th St. Police soon learned that the incident had taken place outside the city limits on Highway 8 West, and handed the investigation over to Clark County sheriff’s deputies.
The victims told authorities that they had given Cordiars Orlando Arnold a ride to his residence, and en route he started becoming violent toward them, at one point physically fighting the male passenger.
The female driver stopped the car at Trinity Temple Assembly of God on the western outskirts of town in order to calm the 33-year-old Arnold and defuse the situation. They then traveled to Arnold’s residence at the 4700 block of Highway 8 West, where Arnold reportedly exited the vehicle and grabbed a crowbar, which he then used to smash the back glass and driver’s side window of the vehicle. The pair then fled the area back to town and phoned 911.
An arrest warrant was issued the same day. Arnold faces two counts of aggravated assault, each a Class D felony punishable by up to 6 years in prison. He’s also charged with misdemeanor criminal mischief.
Reported home invader arrested on scene
On the afternoon of April 16, 2025 dispatchers advised patrol of a home invasion in progress at Southview Apartments, 640 S. 4th St. The caller advised the suspect would be standing outside the apartment. Officers arrived to find an intoxicated Lawrence Harris, 66, on the porch of Apartment 85.
Officers spoke with the caller, who said she had just been outside to water her plants and left her door unlocked; when she returned indoors, she turned around to find Harris standing inside. She told him to leave but he replied that wasn’t going anywhere. She then started pushing Harris toward the doorway until she could get the door closed.
A neighbor added that Harris knew the previous tenant and that he was likely under the influence of drugs. Harris was then taken into custody and transported to the county jail, where a search of his person netted less than 1 gram of methamphetamine located in both a pocket and stuffed inside his sock.
Harris is being charged with possession of a controlled substance, a Class D felony, as well as misdemeanor criminal trespass. If convicted he could spend up to 6 years in prison and up to 3 months in the county jail.
Wrong-way driver nabbed for DWI, pill possession
On April 27, 2025 Clark County Deputy Justin Tucker observed a vehicle traveling the wrong way on the off ramp to Interstate 30 at the Gurdon exit. The car eventually reversed off the ramp and pulled into South Fork Truck Stop, where a traffic stop was made.
The driver was identified as Herman Lee Gulley Jr., 65, of Gurdon. Gulley consented to a field sobriety test, which he failed, and a subsequent search of the vehicle yielded two hydrocodone pills. Gulley admitted to owning the pills without a valid prescription.
In addition to the misdemeanor DWI charge, Gulley faces one count of possession of a controlled substance, a Class D felony carrying a prison term of up to 6 years and/or a fine of up to $10,000.
Traffic stop on unlicensed car leads to drug arrest
An Arkadelphia woman became the target of a traffic stop on Highway 51 just east of the Ouachita River around midday Wednesday, April 23, 2025.
Trooper Trey McAnear of the Arkansas State Police made the stop on an unlicensed GMC Acadia, making contact with the driver, 40-year-old Alicia Shea Griffin, who said she was using a friend’s car and cleaning it. Griffin gave consent for the trooper to search the vehicle, allowing him to find a small baggie containing less than 1 gram of methamphetamine in the middle console.
Later, in a recorded interview with Group 6 Narcotics agents, Griffin initially denied ownership of the substance. After asking that police turn off the recorder, she admitted ownership of the meth, which she said she had found inside a residence before borrowing the vehicle.
Griffin faces a charge of possession of a controlled substance, and could face imprisonment up to 15 years for the Class D felony.
Camden abuser a no-show in Clark County court
A Camden man failed to show for a court-ordered appearance in Clark County Circuit Court.
Franklin Deonco Williams was sentenced to probation in 2022 for a 2020 case of felony battery against an Arkadelphia woman. A revocation of that probation re-opened the case for the 32-year-old Williams.
Williams didn’t show up in court for a hearing scheduled May 6, 2025. He’s now facing charges of failure to appear, a Class C felony punishable by 3-10 years in prison.
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