This is a roundup of felony charges filed June 13-20, 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 since our last report:
Human Development Center CNA charged with abusing resident
A disabled adult stepped into an outside courtyard at the Arkadelphia Human Development Center for some fresh air, apparently triggering an act of violence by a caretaker and Certified Nursing Assistant.
The Feb. 9, 2025, incident prompted charges against 37-year-old Davanna Wiley following an investigation by an agent from the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit of the Attorney General’s Office.
An affidavit filed by the MFCU agent indicates that a fellow CNA witnessed the abuse and reported it to a supervisor.
In the complaint, it was reported that Wiley had grabbed a female resident and pushed her to the ground, causing a knee injury. Asked by a campus investigator about the incident, Wiley said she had told the resident not to leave the building, but she did so anyway via another room of the facility. Upon escorting the resident back inside the building, Wiley relayed that the resident “dramatically fell” and denied pushing her.
Video evidence, however, suggests that Wiley had been verbally abusive toward the resident around the time she exited the building, and outside the camera’s view the alleged physical abuse occurs. An audio recording of the incident captured the resident “yelling in distress, ‘You’re hurting me.’” The resident then walks back into the camera’s view and takes a seat, grabbing her knee.
Wiley’s colleague would later tell the MFCU investigator that she heard Wiley threaten to “beat [the resident] like a grown woman” before pushing her to the ground. The affidavit notes that Wiley declined to give a statement to the MFCU investigator. Wiley was terminated from AHDC as a result of the findings.
9E Prosecutor Dan Turner appointed David Jones as special deputy prosecuting attorney to represent the state in the matter.
Wiley is charged with abuse of a vulnerable adult, a Class D felony that carries a prison term of up to 6 years and/or a fine of up to $10,000.
Agents nab buyer during surveillance of reported drug house
An Arkadelphia man faces felony drug charges after police watched him leave a suspected dealer’s residence.
Danny Joe Swain, 68, was arrested March 5, 2025, when agents with Group 6 Narcotics, working off a tip, were conducting surveillance on a residence at an undisclosed location. The agents observed Swain drive up to the residence, stay for a short time, then leave. Swain’s vehicle had a defective taillight, giving police reason to conduct a traffic stop. Swain was pulled over at 24th and Caddo streets.
Asked if he had gone to the residence to buy drugs, Swain at first denied it but eventually admitted to purchasing drugs there, and directed an officer to the console of the vehicle, where an officer located 0.62 grams of methamphetamine in a cigarette package.
Swain is charged with possession of a Schedule I/II controlled substance-meth or cocaine. Given Swain’s status as a habitual offender, prosecutors are seeking a sentence enhancement on the Class D felony, which could lead to imprisonment of up to 12 years.
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