29-04-2025
Fentanyl overdose in Searcy bowling alley leads to two arrests
SEARCY, Ark. – Officials with the Searcy Police Department said an overdose at a Searcy bowling alley led to the arrest of two men on drug charges.
Officials said police and the Central Arkansas Drug Task Force responded to a call at a bowling alley on Main Street in the city about a drug overdose on April 17. Arriving officials found a 32-year-old man had overdosed on fentanyl while at the bowling alley.
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Officials said police called an ambulance and the man was taken to the hospital, where he was treated and survived the overdose.
Officers at the scene found a powdery substance that they determined was fentanyl. The subsequent investigation led to the April 25 arrest of James Preston Tarkington and John Sterling Holmes, both 32 years old and both from Searcy.
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Police also executed a search warrant on Holmes' vehicle and the bowling alley. Investigators said they found fentanyl in Holmes' vehicle and fentanyl paraphernalia in the bowling alley.
Tarkington is facing charges of felony fentanyl possession and misdemeanor drug paraphernalia possession. He is being held in the White County Detention Center with no bond listed and a July 8 court date.
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Sterling is facing charges of felony fentanyl delivery and felony fentanyl trafficking. He is being held in the White County Detention Center with a $150,000 bond listed and a June 3 court date.
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