Cortney Mcgee News Today

A Saline County man charged by federal authorities with machine gun possession in connection with his May 2022 arrest after the murder of a 7-year-old Pine Bluff girl had his bond revoked Tuesday after agreeing to be detained at the conclusion of a heated revocation hearing.

Cortney McGee, 20, of Bryant was arrested by the Arkansas State Police on April 10 after fleeing on foot from a traffic stop, according to an arrest report. A headline on a Police Beat item in the newspaper on April 12 incorrectly described the nature of the chase.

Police charge man in Bryant car chase

The mother and brother of a capital murder suspect were arraigned in federal court Friday morning, both indicted by a grand jury on charges of being felons in possession of firearms.

A teenage murder suspect, free on $1 million bond and on probation out of Saline County, was ordered jailed indefinitely Thursday after Pulaski County prosecutors reported he had been linked to nine car break-ins in Maumelle.