Stories from Wednesday, April 27, 2022

The Blytheville Police Department is currently trying to talk a subject out of their home in the 1100 block of West Main. This stems from an initial response at approximately 3:45 a.m. of shots fired. When officers arrived, they found evidence of gunshots and assisted one family member out of the house through a window. No injuries have been reported...

Employees from Nucor-Yamato Steel in Blytheville presented the City of Monette with a disaster relief check for $20,000 on April 20. Pictured (from left) are Wayne Shaw, Josh Long, Nucor Human Resource Clerk Kim Zelenski, Monette Mayor Bob Blankenship, Trent Blackshear and Brice Pitts...

By STEVE KNOX - Osceola Times A person of interest in the April 12 attempted armed robbery at the Southern Bancorp location on S. Division Street in Blytheville is in custody in Tennessee on robbery charges. According to Blytheville Police Chief Ross Thompson, SkyCop video footage helped identify the vehicle used in the attempted robbery. That vehicle is the same one that was used in similar robberies in the region...

Aleshia Guerra, 39, of Lepanto died this past Friday night when a motorcycle slammed into her utility terrain vehicle. The crash happened at 6:50 p.m. on State Highway 140 in rural Poinsett County. Guerra was turning her Polaris Ranger into a private driveway when a Suzuki GSXR 1000 driven by 23-year-old Xzavier D. ...

By Marcus McClain NEA Town Courier Prosecuting attorney candidate Martian Lilly made a stop in Blytheville April 23 and attended the community meeting hosted by councilman R.L. Jones at the library. Lilly is campaigning for Judicial District 2 which includes Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Greene, Mississippi and Poinsett counties. Competing candidates include Corey Seats of Jonesboro and Sonia Fonticiella of Paragould...

By Marcus McClain NEA Town Courier The State Representative primary for District 34 will take place on May 24. R-Joey Carr and R-Gary Tobar will run in the primary and will face D-Ollie Collins in the fall. Tobar ran in the previous two house races, but despite the losses, he believes the support he received from cities like Blytheville provide a calling for him to continue pursuing a seat. His primary concern in the campaign is bringing more jobs into the district...

Charges against a son who apparently shot his father in Blytheville have been increased. As reported last week in the Town Courier, 46-year-old Roy Vanvickle, Sr., of Blytheville, told police on April 17 he had been shot by his son, 26-year-old Roy Vanvickle, Jr...