Tuesday, May 11, 2021
A call to check on an abandoned car led to the arrest of four members of a Eureka Springs family on drug-related charges last week.
James Cahalan
In a probable-cause affidavit filed in Carroll County Circuit Court, Carroll County Sheriffs Office Deputy Austin Kennedy writes that he was dispatched just after 2 p.m. on Monday, April 26, to check on an abandoned vehicle in a field near County Road 239 and County Road 216 in Berryville.
Rebecca Cahalan
Inside the vehicle, Kennedy found a handwritten bill of sale stating that it had been sold to Blake Cahalan, whose residence was listed as an address on County Road 241 in Eureka Springs.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Scott Easley
A Berryville man is being held in the Carroll County Detention Center on a $500,000 bond after being arrested on charges of rape and human trafficking.
Scott Alfred Easley, 32, is accused of raping the then 7-year-old daughter of a woman who lived with from September 2013 to November 2014. He is also accused of allowing other individuals to sexually assault the girl in exchange for drugs.
According to an affidavit for Easleys arrest written by Lt. Daniel Crawford of the Berryville Police Department, the alleged victims mother spoke with Crawford by phone in February. The woman told Crawford that when she lived with Easley, he used drugs and beat her, the affidavit says. The woman also told Crawford that she had discovered some papers that Easley had written about someone having sex with a child, as well as a to-do list about sexual activity he wanted to engage in with a child, according to the affidavit. The woman told Crawford that Easley
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Neal Scott Hagler the Berryville man who was taken into custody two weeks ago, more than 10 months after a judge ordered his arrest for allegedly violating his probation on a 2018 conviction for negligent homicide remained in the Carroll County Detention Center on Monday with his bond set at $150,000 cash.
Special Judge Gary Arnold set the cash-only bond after an April 29 hearing. Hagler, 22, turned himself at the Arkansas Department of Probation and Paroles Berryville office on April 26, according to court documents. Arnold had issued two separate warrants for Haglers arrest in June and July 2020 after probation officials reported that he had violated the terms of his probation by failing to report, failing to provide a sample for a drug test, admitting to using marijuana and methamphetamine and failing to maintain employment.
Three former Four Seasons Sports Complex employees say they were viewed in the facility's bathroom by the business' then-owner Gregg Newman, who was found guilty on March 1 of one count of misdemeanor visual surveillance, referred to in Maryland Judiciary Case Search as the “peeping Tom” statute. The women say the incidents haunt them to this day.
An Excelsior Springs woman is facing a felony after leading law enforcement on a high speed pursuit in December.
According to a probable cause statement, at approximately 11:52 p.m. on December 8, a Carrollton Police Officer attempted to stop a dark blue Nissan Altima with expired tags on Highway 65. When the officer activated her emergency lights, the vehicle quickly accelerated and continued southbound on Highway 65 at a high rate of speed. The vehicle reached speeds in excess of 100 mph while traveling southbound towards Marshall. During the pursuit, the vehicle struck the front passenger side of the officer’s vehicle while attempting to pass a Carroll County Sheriff’s Deputy. The vehicle came to a stop on Highway 65, just south of Arrow Street, in Marshall, after being successfully spiked. The driver of the vehicle, 31-year-old Mary Lynn Fagan was taken into custody.