Trooper fired after having sex on duty
An Arkansas State Police trooper was fired Monday after an investigation found he had sex with a married woman while on his lunch break, records show.
The state police placed Trooper Zackary Saxon on administrative leave in November after starting an investigation into his relationship with the woman, according to the records.
The woman’s husband told the state police he had found messages and photographs that Saxon had sent to the woman’s e-mail address, as well as a text message from Saxon on her phone, records show.
Saxon told a state police investigator that he met the woman through Facebook.
He said they had sex at least once at his house while he was on his lunch break.
State police policy prohibits troopers from engaging in sexual activity while on duty.
In a teleconference Monday, the State Police Commission voted unanimously to fire Saxon.
Saxon was hired by the state police in February 2012. - ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTEThird person charged in murder
Authorities charged a third person Friday in the death of a Lonoke County man found along a road near Scott, said Lt. James Kulesa of the Lonoke County sheriff’s office.
Nicholas Ryan Holloway, 23, of Beebe was charged with capital murder.
Lonoke County Circuit Judge Sandy Huckabee ordered Holloway held in the Lonoke County jail. No bail was set.
Deputies found the body of Hurbert Dewayne Jackson, 27, of Little Rock on Bevis Road near Arkansas 15 just east of Scott on Jan. 19, Kulesa said. Jackson had been shot multiple times, he said.
Police arrested Jeremy Deshaun Davis, 29, of Lonoke, and Kayla Nicole Miller, 22, of Beebe, on Monday.
Davis was charged with capital murder and felon in possession of a firearm and ordered held without bond.
Miller was charged with hindering apprehension and is held in lieu of $250,000 bond.
Kulesa said the arrests came as the result of interviews with Jackson’s friends and family, who detailed Jackson’s whereabouts before he was killed.
- ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
Investigators look into plane crash
RICHWOOD, La. - Federal investigators are trying to determine why a plane crashed in the woods behind Ouachita Correctional Center in Richwood, killing four people, including a Little Rock man.
The News-Star reported that investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board were on the scene Friday to begin collecting evidence and witness testimony for their initial investigation.
Safety-board spokesman Terry Williams said a Beechcraft Bonanza crashed Thursday afternoon about four miles south of the Monroe Regional Airport.
The airplane was owned by Central Flying Service Inc. of Little Rock. It was arriving at Monroe from Beaumont, Texas.
The company confirmed that Mason Mauldin of Little Rock was the pilot killed in the crash.
The News-Star reported that Mauldin was a member of three Little Rock-based bands: Sugar & The Raw, Big Boots and Collin vs.
Adam.
Also killed were three northeastern Louisiana residents identified as Dean Hart Sr. of West Monroe, owner of Hart Commercial Investments; Don Thompson of Monroe, who worked 40 years for Replacement Parts Incorporated; and Max Larche of Bastrop, an engineer with Lazenby & Associates in West Monroe.
Police said the singleengine A-36 Beechcraft Bonanza radioed in for landing at the Monroe airport about 1:45 p.m. Thursday. The airport lost contact with the plane about four minutes later.
Williams said the investigation could take nine months to one year to complete.
- ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTETulsa man charged
in stabbing death
TULSA - Tulsa police have arrested a man on a first-degree murder complaint in a stabbing death.
Authorities said Dennis Ray Daney, 55, was arrested Friday after Justin Todd, 31, was killed.
The incident occurred about 5 p.m. Todd was pronounced dead at a hospital about an hour after he was stabbed.
The Tulsa World reported Daney has multiple convictions out of Pittsburg County, including possession of methamphetamine, assaulting a police officer and DWI.
- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Police investigate Miami shooting
MIAMI, Okla. - Police in Miami are investigating a shooting that left a 38-yearold man dead.
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said John Allen Largent was found dead by police at about 10 a.m. Saturday after a caller told officers someone had been shot.
The Tulsa World reported that Largent was found lying at the address given with a single gunshot wound.
A witness told investigators that the shooting was accidental.
No shooter was arrested.
Miami police and the bureau are investigating.
- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Northwest Arkansas, Pages 8 on 01/29/2013