A Yellville man is behind bars after admitting to raping a four-year-old girl in Cotter. Sixty-year-old Michael Allen Davis also admitted to law enforcement to raping two other victims in Marion County.
According to the probable cause affidavit by the Cotter Police Department, officers responded to a residence in Cotter April 22 after a woman walked into her home and observed Davis in the bathroom performing a sexual act with the victim. Davis ran from the residence when the mother arrived and fled the scene in his vehicle. The victim’s mother told police he was baby sitting the girl.
During an interview with investigators April 29, Davis admitted to raping the victim on at least two occasions. He also admitted to raping two other victims in Marion County. Marion County authorities are continuing to investigate the two cases in their jurisdiction.
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A man from Lonoke, who was released from the Arkansas Department of Corrections’ Varner Supermax facility in Gould Monday, was arrested upon his release by Baxter County Sheriff’s Deputies on charges from nearly five years ago. Thirty-one-year-old Mac Ryan Chitwood, who has a lengthy criminal record in the state, is also wanted on charges in Sharp and White counties. He just finished serving over four and a half years of a ten year sentence from Izard and Sharp counties for commercial burglary, battery, breaking and entering, theft of property and criminal mischief. It was his second time in the state prison system.
Ryan Lindsey (left) and Allison Cunningham
Murder victim Cody Stradford was alleged to have loudly begged two men to stop hitting him during a violent, and ultimately deadly, encounter at a Mountain Home residence on Dec.4 last year.
According to information just released by 14th Judicial District Prosecutor David Ethredge, 28-year-old Ryan Lindsey and 38-year-old Skylar Whitney Brazil are reported to have beaten the 35-year-old Stradford for up to an hour while he “begged for it to stop.”
It was also announced Monday that the death penalty will be sought for Lindsey and 42-year-old Allison Cunningham. Investigators report Lindsey and Cunningham have allegedly admitted to acquaintances they both shot Stradford at some point during the episode.
Kevin Wade Beck of Mountain Home was arrested on various drug charges after the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office responded to a public disturbance call shortly after midnight, Sheriff John Montgomery said.
At approximately 12:09 a.m. Tuesday morning, Deputy Bryce Hinson arrived at the Citgo Station on Buzzard Roost Road in response to a man yelling at a woman and threatening her. The man was identified as 40-year-old Kevin Beck, Montgomery said in a news release announcing the arrest.
Hinson arrived at the gas station and made contact with Beck, who was getting into a pickup truck intending to leave, the news release states. Beck was detained and arrested by the deputy because of an outstanding body attachment for non-payment of child support. Beck was searched as part of the arrest, and Hinson reportedly found a black pouch on Beck’s person that contained a scale, spoon, three needles, clear baggies and small bags of various substances believed to be approximately 6.28 grams of