A man with a history of arrests in recent years in behind bars again, this time after he made multiple calls to law enforcement to report prowlers in his house. Twenty-six-year-old Joseph Walker Langston Jr. of Pineville was arrested on multiple charges after deputies arrived to find no one in the house except Langston. It’s not the first time Langston has done this.
According to the probable cause affidavit, deputies had responded to Langston’s residence three previous times for calls about prowlers at his residence, including the day before and earlier the same day. When the first deputy arrived, Langston said prowlers, whom he referred to as his ex-wife and her new boyfriend, were hiding behind his couch. The deputy checked, but no one was there, or anywhere in the house, just like the previous calls. The deputy noted his eyes were like pin balls while he was talking to him.
Langston is on parole with a search waiver on file. Deputies searched his house and found a bag of an unknown white substance along with a debit card and rolled up dollar bill with white powder on them. Langston told the deputies the substance was cocaine. After being arrested and on the way to the jail, he said he had been using cocaine for four days straight without sleep.
An agent with the 16th District Drug Task Force tested the powder which tested positive for fentanyl.
Langston is facing felony charges of trafficking a controlled substance, fentanyl; and maintaining a drug premises along with misdemeanor charges of possession of drug paraphernalia and communicating a false alarm. He is being held in the Izard County Jail with bond set at $35,000. He also has a parole hold placed on him out of Baxter County.
PREVIOUS ARRESTS
Langston has two previous arrests in Baxter County and one in Marion County.
He was first arrested in Baxter County in December of 2024 for taking money to do construction work and not doing the job and not having a license to do the work.
A man in Clarkridge hired Langston to replace windows and siding on his house. Langston gave several excuses why he never started the job and when the man went to his house to get his money back, Langston wrote him checks which were no good.
Two days after his first arrest, Langston was arrested again, this time for stealing a man’s truck who had stopped to help him when he saw him squatted down in the ditch. Langston told the man someone had been shooting at him and then stole the man’s truck. He later rammed the truck through the Norfork Police Chief’s locked gate at his residence before being arrested.
In that incident, deputies had been at Langston’s residence for reports of armed people making threats. When law enforcement arrived, they could not find anyone.
While en route to the jail, Langston began ducking down in the back seat of the patrol car, saying people in the woods were shooting at him and they had tied him up with razor wire.
He was arrested in February of 2025 in Marion County for again taking money to do construction work and not doing the job. The victim paid Langston $12,207 to do the work, and then another $560. He attempted to begin building the project, but what he did build failed and had to be torn down. The victim said she went back and forth with Langston for months about finishing the job before firing him.
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