CRIME & SAFETY

Officers of the Hot Springs Village Police Department conducted at least seven welfare checks, assisted medical personnel with several emergencies (in one of which they had to make a forced entry into a residence), checked out various malfunctioning gates, and responded to a couple of false alarms. In other news:

Hot Springs police have made an arrest in a case involving the vandalism of multiple downtown businesses. The incident occurred on Sunday, with at least five businesses reporting damage to their windows. Surveillance footage showed a man throwing objects into the businesses, causing the damage. Additionally, the Hot Springs Police Department is currently searching for a 13-year-old boy who went missing after leaving his residence on Main Street. The boy was last seen wearing blue jeans, gray Nike slide-on shoes, and possibly a gray shirt. He is described as being five feet tall, weighing around 100 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. — The Hot Springs Police Department has now arrested a man after several businesses in the two hundred and eight hundred block of Central Avenue reported damages to their locations. According to reports, a bank, clothing store, jerky outlet, and several other businesses all made multiple...

A string of break-ins have been plaguing businesses in downtown Hot Springs.

A Malvern man died this weekend after a collision with a tree near Crystal Springs. James M. Thompson, 90, of Malvern, was killed Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023, on US Highway 270 in Garland County. According to an Arkansas State Police preliminary fatal crash summary, Thompson was traveling westbound in a...

Hot Springs Village police officers conducted at least five welfare checks, took reports of gate runners and tailgaters, and assisted LifeNet with medical emergencies. In addition:. Sept. 7. Officers responded to a home on Caceres Lane when three rescue dogs got into a fight, leaving one of them dead. Animal...

The Hot Spring County Sheriff's Office is working to eliminate a drug problem in the community.

Twelve new faces will be seen behind the badge of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission as game wardens this fall after graduating from the AGFC’s training program. All 12 cadets spent the last 18 weeks of their lives undergoing a transformation from cadet to game warden at the AGFC’s H.C. “Red” Morris Training Center east of Mayflower on Lake Conway. Long days and many nights of training and conditioning have prepared the new recruits for their new role in enforcing wildlife regulations, supporting other law enforcement agencies and becoming valuable members of the communities where they are stationed. By the end of the training school, each cadet received 835 hours of training in self-defense, firearms, first aid and rescue, drug enforcement, physical conditioning, criminal law and wildlife code enforcement.