Roach Manufacturing Corp., which makes conveyors and conveying equipment and is also known as Roach Conveyors, announced Monday that it will expand its facility in Caraway (Craighead County) and create 30 new jobs over the next two years. read more >
The former Jonesboro accountant who has a $9 million civil judgment against him for embezzling money and pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud is sentenced to 60 months in federal prison read more >
The former Jonesboro accountant who has a $9 million civil judgment against him for embezzling money waived indictment and pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of bank fraud. read more >
The former Jonesboro accountant who has a $9 million civil judgment against him for embezzling money seems to be getting ready to plead guilty to a crime. read more >
A former Jonesboro accountant recently made a dent in a $9 million civil judgment owed to a former client from which he embezzled for more than 20 years. read more >
The new Roach Conveyors plant in Caraway is just one of a few projects to grace the small northeast Arkansas community recently. read more >
A Craighead County Circuit judge orders a Jonesboro accountant, Edward M. Cooper Jr., to pay his former client $9 million for embezzling money since the mid 1990s. read more >
Roach Manufacturing Corp. in Trumann recently asked a Craighead County Circuit Court judge to go ahead and place a $9 million judgment against the Jonesboro accountant who allegedly embezzled the money. read more >
It looks like the federal government is taking an interest in the former Jonesboro accountant Edward M. Cooper Jr., who allegedly embezzled $8.9 million from his former client — double what was initially revealed. read more >
Accountant Edward M. Cooper Jr. occasionally asked for a few extra blank checks in case he made a mistake preparing payments for Roach Manufacturing Corp. in Trumann. read more >
Edward M. Cooper Jr., who is accused of embezzling more than $4.5 million from a client, has taken the Fifth in a civil court case filed by his former customer. read more >
A family-owned manufacturing company in Poinsett County accused its longtime accountant of embezzling more than $4.5 million over a decade. read more >
Smack in the middle of a business surge driven by the e-commerce revolution sits Jonesboro and northeast Arkansas, the little-known conveyor capital of the United States. read more >
Two of northeast Arkansas’ conveyor manufacturers have deep roots in the region’s farming tradition, going back a half-century and more. read more >
