About 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 19, detectives with the Benton Police Department/Saline County Sheriff’s Office Special Investigations Unit served an arrest and search warrant at the residence of 37-year-old William Justin Butts located in the 3600 block of Bauxite Cutoff Road in Bauxite. Butts had been implicated as being a narcotic distributor in that area which […]
Suspect Arrested After 2-County Pursuit and Barricade Situation
I received a text on the MySaline hotline 501-303-4010 Sunday afternoon that went exactly like this: “What is happening on midland road? When we passed there were 12 cop cars… scso, Bryant and troopers. Since then 8 more have passed going that direction. We saw one policeman dressed in swat gear.” I followed up with […]
Frank Duncan Surrenders After Standoff
In cooperation and collaboration with numerous local, state and Federal law enforcement agencies, Roy Franklin Duncan has been arrested and is currently in the custody of the Saline County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO). Sheriff Rodney Wright would not only like to thank all of the agencies that assisted in this manhunt, but would like to especially […]
Sheriff’s Office Seeks Dangerous Subject on the Loose
Over the past several months, both the Patrol Division and Criminal Investigation Division (CID) of the Saline County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) have had numerous contacts with Roy Franklin Duncan. He is described as a white male, age 47, 6’1″ tall, weighing 200 pounds, with black hair & brown eyes. Recent known addresses are 18000 BLOCK […]
Share to Help SCSO Find Theft Suspect for Missing Trailers and ATVs
Over the past 30 days the Saline County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) has seen a concentration of thefts in the East End community. The thefts have either involved trailers or ATVs. In two of the thefts, witnesses reported seeing a red pick-up truck in the area prior to the incident occurring. Specifically, on September 5, 2016, an […]
Sheriff’s Office Finds Info on 19th Century Fallen Deputy and Family
UPDATE SEP 22, 2015, 9:14PM: Lt. Ron Parsons contacted MySaline to let us know what he found out about the fallen Deputy of 1847. The Saline County Sheriff Deputy killed in 1847 has been traced down and found to be Gilbert Byrd Burchfield. He was approximately age 34-35 years old at the time of his […]
Suspect Arrested on Attempted Murder Charge After Held at Gunpoint by Citizen
Update Thu, Sep 22, 2016 11:19am: There are two separate police reports taken by the Saline County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) on this arrest. The first is from the suspect’s family, on the attempted murder charge; the second is from the people who held the suspect at gunpoint after he allegedly attempted to steal their vehicle. […]
Collaborative Law Enforcement Checkpoint Leads to Over a Dozen Arrests
In a collaborative effort, members of local law enforcement recently executed a focused effort to enforce traffic infractions, specifically identifying drivers operating motor vehicles while intoxicated or under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol. Agencies participating were the Saline County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO), Bryant Police Department, Benton Police Department, Arkansas State Police and the Arkansas Game and […]
Don’t Fall for this Expensive Scam by Fake SCSO Deputy
According to Lt. Jeffery Silk, over the past 24 hours, the Saline County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) has taken reports where citizens were contacted by a subject identifying himself as an SCSO deputy. The fictitious deputy tells the victim that court records show they owe a sum of money and it must be paid immediately. THIS […]
SCSO Deputies Graduate Trig & Physics Course to Become Traffic Investigation Team
If this math makes sense to you – it looks like a foreign language to me – then you probably have some idea of what it takes to figure out what happened after a vehicle accident. The Saline County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) announced Friday morning that two deputies, Eric Stricklin and Sam Griffin, have completed a 12-week Accident […]