Court News
On Sunday, Dec. 29, the Mansfield Police Department requested assistance from the Wright County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division to investigate a suspicious death within the City limits of Mansfield. Since then, several interviews have been conducted, and numerous leads have been...
Janissa Wilson
In the early morning hours of Jan. 8, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office reportedly received vehicle information from the Mansfield Police Department regarding a stolen vehicle. The vehicle was last seen on Highway 5 south heading toward Ava.According to a Douglas County Sheriff’s Report, Cpl....
David Ruiz
Back on Dec. 5, the Wright County Sheriff’s Office noted that it charged David Ruiz, of Mountain Grove, with arson in the second degree for knowing burning and burglary in the second degree involving a structure fire that took place on Dec. 1, south of Mountain Grove.Ruiz is being held on a $25,000...
Wayne Beck
A Mountain Grove man has been arrested in the shooting of a 19-year-old family member back on Nov. 15 at around 11:45 p.m.According to the Texas County Sheriff’s Office, deputies there were dispatched to Texas County Memorial Hospital for a report of a patient with a gun shot wound.Deputies...
Brian Shive
Two men were arrested after a traffic stop in Douglas County on the evening of Sep. 22.According to a Douglas County Sheriff’s report, Douglas County Deputy Sam Evans made a traffic stop on a vehicle towing a trailer on Highway O for no tags on the trailer.At the conclusion of the official...
Heather Widner
An employee at a Grovespring business, who claimed she was carjacked and robbed of a bank deposit, has since been arrested and charged herself after an investigation by the Wright County Sheriff’s Office.According to a probable cause statement, back on Sep. 3, Heather Widner, of Grovespring, was...
Randy Lee Liles, Jr.
A Hartville man has been charged with the rape of a 14-year-old girl after an incident that took place in late August.According to information from both a Wright County Sheriff’s Office report and a probable cause statement, Randy Lee Liles Jr. reportedly assaulted a victim in the location of a...
Timothy Brill
(Note from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office: Information is omitted to protect the integrity of the case and identity of witness unless the witness is another law enforcement agency. In most cases, a witness calls to provide information and we do not post witness information. There was no...
Brandon M. Tolliver
A man who once worked for a company who transported juveniles has received a 20-year sentence for an incident that took place on Nov. 1, 2023.Back on Aug. 13, Judge Craig Carter sentenced Brandon Tolliver to 20 years in the Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC) for rape in the first degree.His...
There were 67 cases on the docket on July 11 and a few with guilty pleas for Judge Craig Carter.James Wilson, 38, of Hartville, received five years supervised probation for second degree domestic assault.Travis Hire, 38, of Fulton, received four years in the Department of Corrections (DOC) for...