{"id":211051,"date":"2026-04-27T11:17:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211051\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T11:17:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:17:21","slug":"de-queen-police-officer-fired-arrested-for-sexual-assault-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211051\/","title":{"rendered":"De Queen police officer fired, arrested for sexual assault | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DE QUEEN, Ark. &#8211; A police officer was fired after being arrested for sexual assault, according to the De Queen Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, a woman was booked into the Sevier County Jail and Detention Center on an unrelated charge. During the booking process, she told officers about a sexual assault involving a De Queen police officer that happened last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A criminal investigation was launched by the Sevier County Sheriff&#8217;s Department and officials arrested Ty Phillips Saturday morning. He was fired by Chief of Police Scott Simmons following his arrest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Phillips is being held without bail as he awaits his court appearance. He is facing a felony charge of sexual assault in the third degree.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=ktbs.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/google_preferred_source_badge_light_en.png\" width=\"200\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DE QUEEN, Ark. &#8211; A police officer was fired after being arrested for sexual assault, according to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[53436,9,24,63,122,124,123,83439,83440,83360],"class_list":["post-211051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-de-queen-police-department","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sevier-county-jail","tag-sevier-county-sheriff","tag-ty-phillips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211051","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=211051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}