Police & Fire Reports

An officer was dispatched April 9 to the front lobby of the Doniphan Police Department to take a report from a woman who stated that her rear license plate sticker was stolen. The woman stated the theft occurred overnight while her car was parked in front of the North End Motel...

Deputies were dispatched March 29 to a house fire in Oxly that resulted in the death of 76-year-old resident Danny Halliburton. The report stated that the victim’s family and neighbors were interviewed as part of an investigation conducted by the Ripley County Sheriff’s Department...

A deputy was dispatched March 22 to the Ripley County Detention Center to take a report from an inmate who stated he had been sexually assaulted by a fellow inmate. Video surveillance was obtained which showed that the alleged rapist did climb onto the other inmate’s bunk; however, there was no physical contact...

Officers were dispatched March 23 to the Casey’s General Store in reference to an irate patron in the parking lot, scaring other customers. Upon arrival officers made contact with a male subject who, reports stated, appeared “fidgety, making spontaneous loud outbursts and had non voluntary jerking movements,” characteristics of someone on methamphetamine...

A local man accused of harassing a male subject came into the department March 21, and filed a report to “set the record straight,” he said. The man alleges that false information was used by the subject to obtain an order of protection against him and now he and his fiance are being inconvenienced by having to go to court to try and resolve the issue...

A warrant was issued March 1 against Billy Colburn, 63, of Doniphan for violating an adult order of protection. According to reports, from Feb. 20-26 Colburn allegedly committed three successive actions that were in violation of the order. A deputy was on patrol March 15 and observed a 2003 silver Dodge Durango on US 160 East doing 85 mph in a 55 mph zone. The driver, Craig Avery Garlock, 18, of Doniphan was cited for speeding...

An officer was dispatched March 14 to Pine Street in reference to an “agitated male in the roadway.” The male subject was located sitting in the yard of the Catholic church, and stated his girlfriend was cheating on him. When he confronted her about it, he said, she kicked him out and wouldn’t give him his belongings...