Popular TV show to be filmed in Arkansas
American Pickers is set to return to Arkansas this November to film episodes for its newest season on the History Channel. The show is a documentary series, exploring the world of antique “picking,” following professional pickers Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz across America as they hunt for valuable antiques. The American Pickers team is currently looking for leads.
Arkansas residents who have a large, private collection or accumulation of antiques the pickers could explore, or know someone in the Twin Lakes Area who might, contact the show with your name, phone number, location, and description of the collection with photos to americanpickers@cineflix.comor by calling 855-OLD-RUST (855-653-7878). For more information, the show’s Facebook page can be found by searching for @GotAPick.
A downloadable version of the show flyer can be found here.
As Wolfe and Fritz hit the back roads, they are on a mission to recycle and reuse forgotten relics and say they are excited to find sizable, unique collections while learning the stories behind them. Along the way, the pickers want to meet characters with remarkable and exceptional goods. The duo also hopes to give historically significant objects a new lease on life while learning a thing or two about America’s past.
Only private collections are considered. Stores, malls, flea markets, museums, auctions, businesses or public venues are ineligible.
American Pickers airs Mondays at 8:00 pm on the History Channel.
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Thursday evening accident claims life of Yellville woman
Lakeview Police Chief David Hotchkiss has confirmed the death of 25-year-old Caitlyn Robbins-Bradford of Yellville in a one-vehicle accident Thursday evening just before 11:00 in Lakeview.
Chief Hotchkiss says the accident occurred on State Highway 178 near Stone Dog Lane.
Robbins-Bradford was traveling eastbound when her vehicle ran off the right side of the roadway. The vehicle went into a ditchline and overturned.
Weather conditions were clear, and the road was dry in the 10:55 p.m. accident.
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MH man wins Natural State Jackpot
A Mountain Home man has become $380,000 richer. According to the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery, Thomas Bedran ended up with the winning ticket in the Natural State Jackpot.
Bedran had purchased the ticket at Snappy Mart on Highway 5. He was working in New Orleans Thursday when he heard someone bought the winning ticket at Snappy Mart. Bedran contacted a friend in Mountain Home to share the news and tell him to check his tickets, but the friend was not the winner.
Bedran says he returned to work and later decided to check his numbers. He contacted Snappy Mart, and when the clerk read the numbers, he realized all of his matched. Bedran owns Tom’s Door and Glass in Mountain Home. He says he plans to buy a new truck for his business and spoil his grandchildren at Christmas.
Snappy Mart will receive a one-percent commission from the sale of the winning ticket.
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Patrol unit strikes vehicle being pursued, 2 arrested
Two people have been arrested in Marion County following a fleeing incident involving a sheriff’s patrol unit striking the car being pursued.
According to the probable cause affidavit filed Tuesday, 32-year-old Stephanie Kerley of Flippin, a passenger in the fleeing vehicle, has been charged with five felony drug offenses. Kerley’s bond was set at $35,000.
The vehicle was driven by 32-year-old Jason Biddle of Mountain Home, who is charged with four felony drug offenses. Biddle’s bond was set at $20,000.
Both Kerley and Biddle have previous convictions on drug offenses.
As KTLO, Classic Hits and The Boot reported Tuesday, Biddle wasted little time in squandering an opportunity he had been given in late July to seek help with his drug addictions by walking out of a Care Center Ministries program.
The affidavit noted the incident leading to the arrest of the two began when a Marion County deputy observed a white car around 3:47 on the morning of Oct. 10th parked at the intersection of County Roads 7057 and 7092.
The vehicle then traveled down County Road 7055 and began to accelerate. The deputy noted his vehicle reached 60 miles per hour in a 45 zone, with distance between his unit and the white car expanding.
As the driver of the white car attempted to negotiate a turn, he lost traction, with the vehicle spinning out and coming to rest in a ditch striking a fence. The car began trying to drive out of the ditch, with the deputy attempting to pull his car in front of the vehicle as it pulled out.
The deputy was unable to stop on the wet grass and collided with Biddle’s car as it drove toward the officer. The damage to Biddle’s vehicle was limited to a dented plastic bumper with a scuff mark. The patrol unit appeared undamaged.
The deputy pointed his weapon at the occupants of the vehicle, later identified as Biddle and Kerley, and advised them to show him their hands. Biddle was identified as an absconder with the Department of Community Corrections. Kerley is a probationer with DCC.
Biddle said he was sorry, and he did not know he was fleeing from a cop. He stated he did not see the patrol unit lights at first. When asked why he did not stop once he realized he was being pursued by a cop, he said he was already running at that point.
When asked if there were items in his car the officer should know about, Biddle reportedly said “drugs” and added needles. He responded to a question from the officer saying he did not know if he would be poked searching the car because everything scattered in the pursuit.
A search revealed substances appearing to be methamphetamine, marijuana, and Xanax, along with drug paraphernalia.
Biddle said the drugs were his, and he did not want “her” to get in trouble. Kerley said she did not know what was in the vehicle. She said they were parked in the road to have sex, and Biddle fled when the officer drove up behind them.
Kerley and Biddle have been charged with possession with purpose to deliver methamphetamine, a Schedule VI controlled substance, and a Schedule IV, V stimulant controlled substance, as well as possession of drug paraphernalia. Kerley faces an additional felony drug offense, and both were charged with misdemeanor fleeing counts.
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Teen injured in Sunday evening crash
An Ozark County teenager was injured in a one-vehicle crash Sunday evening. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says 16-year-old Devin Mittchell of Gainesville was taken to Baxter Regional Medical Center with moderate injuries following the crash.
The report indicates Mittchell’s vehicle crossed the centerline, he overcorrected, the car traveled off the roadway where it struck a rock bluff, then returned to the roadway where it overturned and came to rest on its top.
The accident occurred at 7:25 Sunday evening on U.S. Highway 160, one mile west of Gainesville.
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