Tuesday at 11:30 am, the fate of Daniel Pedraza was turned over to 12 jurors, who had heard more about child abuse and suffering, than any of them had ever imagined was possible. Saturday, Pedraza had accepted a guilty plea, which took his possible death sentence out of their hands, but admitting that the 2 year old’s step-father had “knowingly caused the death” of Aubriana Coke. left as little as 10 of prison time, ranging to as much as the rest of his life in jail as options.
MLive spoke to an anonymous juror, after the sentence was read, who mentioned these thought’s about the jury’s deliberation….
Award-Winning Monticello Intermediate School students in the EAST program were recognized at Tuesday night’s School Board meeting and presented an over-view of their projects and awards to the Board.
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.
Drew Central Superintendent Mike Johnston attended an Arkansas Dept. of Eduction meeting in Little Rock, Monday, where it was confirmed that the Drew Central school district had been removed from the “fiscal distress list”.
Hunter Lane, an 8th grader at Monticello Middle School competed in Nationals for the 2013 NASP (National Archery in the Schools) program, a national competition held at Louisville, KY Expo Center.
Monticello Police have captured the man accused of robbing the First National Bank of McGehee last June.
The Mother’s Day Basket raffled by Feed the Kids was won by Bonnie Hicks.
Recently, an 18 year old Monticello youth was arrested twice in one evening.
