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.
Thursday, May 13, 2021
Meeting in a special session Tuesday night to address a looming crisis at the county jail, the Carroll County Quorum Court approved a motion calling for a $2-an-hour raise and a $500 retention bonus for detention officers.
The motion called for the retention bonus to be paid at the end of August.
The quorum court voted 10-1 to approve the motion by District 1 Justice of the Peace Jack Deaton. The lone dissenting vote was cast by District 3 JP Harrie Farrow, who represents Eureka Springs. Farrow explained later in the meeting that she voted against Deatons motion because she doesnt feel the raises are high enough.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
A hastily assembled advisory committee voted unanimously Monday to recommend that the Carroll County Quorum Court immediately raise detention officers pay by $3 an hour in an effort to prevent the county jail from shutting down by the end of the week.
The committee, comprising mayors and police chiefs from Berryville, Eureka Springs and Green Forest as well as Carroll County Circuit Judge Scott Jackson, Carroll County District Judge Dale Ramsey and Berryville accountant David Killingsworth, was appointed just three days earlier by County Judge Sam Barr and sworn in before Mondays meeting by County Clerk Connie Doss.