Written by Pat Culverhouse

Sheriff’s Office investigators turned the arrest of a Cotton Valley resident on an Arkansas warrant into an arrest for illegal sexual activity in Webster Parish involving a juvenile.

Sheriff Jason Parker said 21-year-old Lucas Coby Higginbotham was booked on a charge of two counts of carnal knowledge of a juvenile in Webster Parish. He reportedly is also the subject of an arrest warrant in Columbia County, Arkansas, for one count of Class “Y” rape (Arkansas Code § 5-14-103) .

Parker said Higginbotham was picked up Monday afternoon at his residence in the 100 block of Sikes Ferry Rd. in Cotton Valley.  He is being held at Bayou Dorcheat Correctional Center under a $200,000 bond.

Maj. Bobby Igo III said investigators in Webster and Columbia County, Arkansas, were simultaneously working separate cases involving Higginbotham. A coordinated effort reportedly led to an arrest warrant being issued by Columbia County.

Armed with the warrant, Webster deputies took the suspect into custody. After he was brought to the Sheriff’s Office, Higginbotham reportedly was questioned in connection with a parish investigation involving sex with a juvenile. 

He reportedly admitted to having intercourse with a 13-year-old Magnolia, Arkansas female multiple times at locations in north Webster Parish.

This information has been provided by a law enforcement agency as public information. Persons named as suspects in a criminal investigation, or arrested and charged with a crime, have not been convicted of any criminal offense and are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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