Around 3:30 Tuesday afternoon, a distressed 22 year old man ran from the DHS parking lot, across HWY 425, and into Popeye’s restaurant.
The upset man ran behind the counter, and began throwing food and containers, before the Monticello Police Dept. and SEEMS arrived, assisted by Arkansas State Police and Sheriff Mark Gober, who were quickly able to bring the man under control, and get him into appropriate medical care.




























Recently, an 18 year old Monticello youth was arrested twice in one evening.
According to Sheriff Mark Gober, deputies arrested a 16 year old male, who is now in juvenile custody.


Monticello schools are continuing to work toward adding a school resource officer to their staff. The topic was thoroughly discussed at their March boad meeting.
Around 1 am, Saturday, local police agencies met briefly on a local parking lot to discuss patrol routes, when they were interrupted by the blur of a Dodge Challenger and a Dodge Charger racing from the Walgreens stop-light, on HWY 278, past Dollar General.
“97 MPH” registered on one radar screen, as officers pulled out to stop the vehicles.

At approximately 2:45 early Saturday morning, Drew County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to a HWY 425 North residence, to a family disturbance where weapons were reportedly involved.
According to Lt. Jason Akers of the Tenth Drug Task Force, a 52 year old Monticello man was arrested by Drug Task Force Agents last week, and faces felony narcotics charges after what Agents suspect to be methamphetamine was located inside his vehicle on a traffic stop.






































