Lexa man booked on terrorist threat charge in Phillips County

Phillips County booking records show Micheal Bernard, 35, of Lexa, was taken into custody and booked at 1:47 p.m. on April 8, 2026, on a charge of making a terrorist threat. The Phillips County Sheriff’s Office roster lists him as booking #26-0020 and places him in the county jail population at the Phillips County Detention Center.

A separate public booking tracker matched the same booking date, city, age and charge, and noted the record was last updated on April 8. The sheriff’s office roster also showed 30 inmates in the current county jail population, offering a small snapshot of the detention center’s size when Bernard was entered into custody.

The case remains a charge, not a conviction. Under Arkansas law, terroristic threatening in the second degree means threatening physical injury or property damage with the purpose of terrorizing another person, and it is a Class A misdemeanor. First-degree terroristic threatening is a Class D felony.

The sheriff’s office warns on its roster that charges and bail amounts may change after court appearances and may not be current, which means Bernard’s case can still move as it enters the court process. The next public steps are likely to come through bond information, a first appearance in court, or additional filings from law enforcement or prosecutors.

The booking adds another public-safety item to the Phillips County log, where records are handled by the sheriff’s office serving a county formed on May 1, 1820. For now, the public record shows only that Bernard was booked in Phillips County on a terrorist threat charge and placed in the local jail population in Lexa’s neighboring county seat region, where Helena-based court activity will determine what happens next.