LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Arkansas State Police troopers arrested a man who was at the center of a nationwide alert in Eudora. According to ASP officials, state troopers arrested 40-year-old Richard Dewayne Pope Thursday. ASP officials said they were informed that Pope was considered dangerous and traveling through Chicot County on a motorcycle.

Grant Hardin, a former police chief of Gateway, Arkansas, was serving decades-long sentences for murder and rape and remains on the run.

An 8-year-old boy reached speeds of 85 mph as he took his younger brother on a joy ride in Arkansas, police say. Harrison Police Chief Chris Graddy said during a May 22 city council meeting that a citizen reported a driver, who appeared to be a child, “was driving poorly,” according to the City of Harrison.

Arkansas State Police are investigating a shooting that occurred in Rockport May 23. Officers conducted a traffic stop at the intersection of Babcock and Nix roads. Sign up for our Newsletters During that traffic stop police discovered Christopher Buckley had outstanding warrants.

The mayor of the Arkansas town where Grant Hardin was convicted of shooting a man says anxiety in the town is "still high" after his escape.