NAACP makes case for fired sheriff’s deputy

Group gives sheriff deadline to detail reasons for dismissal

By: Jim Williamson - Texarkana Gazette -

Published: 06/05/2007

ASHDOWN, Ark—”Justice for Jessie” was the issue of a community meeting Monday night to show support for former Little River Deputy Sheriff Lt. Jessie Ricks, who was fired after wrecking a patrol car in Sevier County. About 75 people attended the meeting in the Little River Training School Alumni Association Brown Center to ask questions about Ricks’ dismissal. He was fired after an investigation into a single-car crash involving an unmarked 2007 Chevy Impala patrol car on U.S. Highway 71 in Sevier County about four miles north of Lockesburg, Ark. “We gave him a ch...

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