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June 14, 2023
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Tyler Crider sentenced to 59 years
INSIDE: By Ethan Nahté
Ouachita Expressions Call
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Boots & Badges Blood Drive
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Tyler Dane Crider, 31, of Mena, Arkansas was sentenced to 59 years in the Arkansas Department of Correction on June 10, 2023. He was booked at 12:05 a.m. on June 10. Crider was found guilty by a jury and sentenced on one count of rape and two counts of sexual assault in the second degree. Debra Buschman, 18th West Judicial District Prosecuting Attorney for Polk and Montgomery Counties, announced, “… late yesterday, June 9, 2023, a jury found Tyler Dane Crider, 31 of Mena, guilty of rape and two counts of sexual assault in the second degree. The jury deliberated for almost four hours
before returning the guilty verdict.” A warrant was issued for Crider’s arrest on Jan. 19, 2023. The warrant was served Feb. 13. Crider was released Feb. 13 on a $50,000 bond until his court date. The criminal information page on AOC Court Connect reports the filing date for the charges against Crider was Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023. Both Count I: rape and Count II: sexual assault in the second degree, were said to have occurred on or between Jan. 1, 2018, and July 24, 2020.
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Local Medal of Honor recipient HAL needs assistance By Ethan Nahté
Assistant Fire Chief Harvey
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The Medal of Honor is our nation’s highest honor presented to military personnel for actions above and beyond the call of duty. Since it was first presented in 1863, to date, only 3,515 have been awarded of the 40 million Americans who have served in the Armed Forces since the Civil
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War according to the National Medal of Honor Museum. That’s comes out to 0.0087875% — an extremely rare honor bestowed upon those 3,515 recipients, some posthumously. The Medal of Honor Memorial in Little Rock, which honors men from the Civil War through the Vietnam War, was dedicated on November 18, 2000. The memorial was funded by
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