{"id":210864,"date":"2026-04-27T05:52:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T05:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/210864\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T05:52:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T05:52:39","slug":"de-queen-police-officer-ty-phillips-fired-held-in-custody-ahead-of-anticipated-felony-sexual-assault-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/210864\/","title":{"rendered":"De Queen Police Officer Ty Phillips fired, held in custody ahead of anticipated felony sexual assault charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) &#8211; A De Queen police officer, Ty Phillips, has been fired and is currently in custody on an anticipated felony charge of sexual assault in the third degree. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A woman was booked into the Sevier County Jail and Detention Center on Friday, April 24 on an unrelated criminal charge. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During the booking process, she disclosed an alleged sexual assault involving a City of De Queen police officer that reportedly happened on March 26. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This prompted an investigation and resulted in the immediate termination of Ty Phillips by Chief of Police Scott Simmons following his arrest on Saturday morning, April 25. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Phillips is currently being held by a neighboring law enforcement agency and is expected to appear before Circuit Judge Bryan Chesshir in Pike County Circuit Court for a first appearance on Monday, April 27.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No bond has been set.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link | text-reset d-block h-100 w-100\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ksla.com\/page\/ksla-streaming\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"KSLA\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777269159_318_CJULBREU3RAOTLOR7JDJACWJXM.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KSLA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) &#8211; A De Queen police officer, Ty Phillips, has been fired and is currently in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[83361,83364,53436,9,24,63,83363,122,124,123,83362,83360],"class_list":["post-210864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-chief-scott-simmons","tag-circuit-judge-bryan-chesshir","tag-de-queen-police-department","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-pike-county-circuit-court","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sevier-county-jail-and-detention-center","tag-ty-phillips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}