Iver Lopez was arrested on two drug charges and a motor vehicle violation.

Iver Lopez, 54, of Pembroke Pines, Fla., was arrested on two drug charges and a motor vehicle violation. He will be arraigned Wednesday, prosecutors said.Arkansas highway police stopped a shipment of cocaine that they estimate is worth more than $4 million.Police said the drugs were found in a tractor-trailer that stopped at the Alma Highway Police Station on Interstate 40 in Crawford County. During the inspection, police found 440 pounds of cocaine. Highway Police Chief Ron Burks said the find amounts to the largest discovery of illegal drugs by the agency this year.<br />His truck contained produce and was believed to be traveling from California to Maryland.

Iver Lopez was arrested on two drug charges and a motor vehicle violation.

Iver Lopez, 54, of Pembroke Pines, Fla., was arrested on two drug charges and a motor vehicle violation. He will be arraigned Wednesday, pro...

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Paul Tracy Allensworth and $1.2 million worth of cocaine inside a tractor trailer's cab

Paul Tracy Allensworth, 46, is being held on $500,000 bond after the traffic stop. Troopers say they found the 31 pounds of cocaine stuffed into a blue duffel bag hidden under a bed in Allensworth's cab Thursday.<br />Arkansas State Police troopers say they found $1.2 million worth of cocaine inside a tractor trailer's cab during traffic stop along Interstate 40.<br />Troopers say Allensworth, who was hauling a load of metal shelving, had plans to transport the cocaine to Baltimore. Allensworth allegedly told troopers he received $5,000 to make the delivery.

Paul Tracy Allensworth and $1.2 million worth of cocaine inside a tractor trailer's cab

Paul Tracy Allensworth, 46, is being held on $500,000 bond after the traffic stop. Troopers say they found the 31 pounds of cocaine stuffed ...

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Bobby Junior Cox ,Larry Norwood

Bail bondsmen Bobby Junior Cox and Larry Norwood, once codefendants in the sprawling Jay and Kelly Campbell drug, sex, theft and criminal enterprise trial, appeared before Special Judge John Cole in Lonoke Circuit Court on Friday on charges including conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine. <br />Cox is also charged as a member the ongoing criminal enterprise charge that Jay Campbell was convicted of running.<br />This trial had been set to begin Monday, but Special Prosecutor Larry Jegley says he’s just getting up to speed on the case and the last of the 12,000-page transcript is yet to be transcribed. And on Dec. 12, Cox’s lawyer, John Wesley Hall, filed a motion to dismiss for double jeopardy, an inch-thick document. A trial date has now been tentatively set for early April.<br />Campbell, the former Lonoke police chief, was sentenced in April to 40 years in prison, his wife to 10 years, on numerous convictions.Pending appeal, Cole ordered the husband and wife to prison, where they are awaiting completion of transcripts and appointment of lawyers. <br />Although Cole dismissed Patrick Benca and Mark Hampton for the appeal process, the state Supreme Court has not yet dismissed them or appointed replacements.<br />The cases against Cox and Norwood have lingered while the transcript was being made, and Jegley just received the double jeopardy motion and needs time to reply.<br />Cole declared a mistrial in Cox’s case last year because a witness suddenly testified that Cox had solicited him to kill Lonoke County Prosecutor Lona McCastlain and a star witness.<br /><br />It was McCastlain’s possible involvement as a victim or a witness that led to the appointment of Jegley as special prosecutor.<br />Jegley has not made a decision on whether or not to try Cox and Norwood on the solicitation to commit capital murder, but that charge may rest solely upon the testimony of Ron “Bear” Tyler, a super-sized prosecution witness from the world of bounty hunters, felons, drugs and biker hit men, who either was lying through his unruly walrus moustache when he testified in the Campbell trial last year, or else Cox recruited him to kill McCastlain and star witness Ronald Adams and to burn down the Lonoke County Courthouse.<br />Both Cox and Norwood originally were charged with participating with the Campbells in an ongoing criminal enterprise, but Norwood’s case was severed from the others when the judge ruled his charges didn’t include the requisite components of an ongoing criminal enterprise.<br />Cox, Norwood and Jay Campbell all were charged with conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine as they allegedly sought to apply pressure to force a friend to reveal the whereabouts of another man who skipped out on an expensive bond.<br />Cole gave Jegley until Feb. 20 to file a response to Hall’s double-jeopardy motion and gave Hall until March 7 to respond.<br />He tentatively set a trial date of April 2, a date that’s likely to be changed several times.

Bobby Junior Cox ,Larry Norwood

Bail bondsmen Bobby Junior Cox and Larry Norwood, once codefendants in the sprawling Jay and Kelly Campbell drug, sex, theft and criminal en...

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Jessica Saenz, David Wixon, Michael Fagan, Shawn Mantz, Jamie Perkins, Garrett Weishaar, Glen Dale Berry, Gregory Chattam, Jesse Ian Adcock, Schylur W

The people who had warrants issued are: Jessica Saenz, David Wixon, Michael Fagan, Shawn Mantz, Jamie Perkins, Garrett Weishaar, Glen Dale Berry, Gregory Chattam, Jesse Ian Adcock, Schylur Watson, Felisha Mahoney, Wanda Steward, Laramie Miller, Genna D. Wooten, Rachel A. Whitlock, Autumn B. Wooten, Kimberly Sartin, Joseph M. Reynolds, Patricia Dickey and Michael Rowe.Some of the individuals who are on the list to be arrested today have drug-related history, said Owens. There are also some burglary warrants that go along with the drug arrests.

Jessica Saenz, David Wixon, Michael Fagan, Shawn Mantz, Jamie Perkins, Garrett Weishaar, Glen Dale Berry, Gregory Chattam, Jesse Ian Adcock, Schylur W

The people who had warrants issued are: Jessica Saenz, David Wixon, Michael Fagan, Shawn Mantz, Jamie Perkins, Garrett Weishaar, Glen Dale B...

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