Several hearings in ongoing criminal cases are scheduled for Jan. 7 at the Columbia County Courthouse.
Cole Dixon is scheduled to make an appearance at 11 a.m. He is charged with 25 counts of sexual indecency with a child and computer child pornography.
According to a Columbia County Sheriff’s Office probable cause affidavit, the agency received word that a Wisconsin man’s 12-year-old son had received multiple “indecent” electronic pictures. They were thought to have originated in Magnolia. While investigators corresponded with the Wisconsin man and combed through more electronic messages, Dixon emerged as a suspect. He was arrested on March 4, 2019, at a Columbia Road 36 home just outside of Magnolia city limits.
Dixon missed a scheduled appearance on Dec. 3. Prosecuting Attorney Ryan Phillips stated that Dixon’s case had been picked up by the federal court. Court employees of the Western District of Arkansas said they could find no records of a federal court case on Dixon when asked.
The four suspects arrested on Aug. 11 in connection to a shooting that occurred at Southern Arkansas University that month are scheduled to make their appearances at 1 p.m. Odies Wilson, Shaivonn Anthony Robinson, Quincy Isiah Lewis and Le’Kamerin Vaunye Tolbert are all charged with capital murder, first-degree battery and firearm enhancement. Each is to be tried as an individual.
Wilson’s attorney, Ronald L. Davis Jr., said on Nov. 5 that he would be filing a battery of motions to waive the death penalty in his client’s case by challenging the Constitutionality of the death penalty as an option. Wilson was scheduled to make an appearance for a bond hearing on Dec. 3 which was later postponed.
The other three defendants have been issued public defense attorneys; Robinson’s attorney is listed on the court docket as K. Streett, Lewis’ as J. Harrelson and Tolbert as R. Golden.
William Lee Mickels is scheduled to make an appearance at 3 p.m. He is charged with sexual indecency with a child and second-degree sexual assault. Mickles is listed on the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office’s jail roster with a booking date of Oct. 17, 2019, and was arrested by the Magnolia Police Department.