Phillips County booking shows fentanyl, drug delivery charges for Antwon Speed

A Phillips County jail record shows Antwon Speed booked on fentanyl and drug-delivery charges, then released four days later, a short stay that still points to the county’s wider narcotics workload.

The sheriff’s office roster lists Speed under booking number 26-0029, with a booking time of 10:35 a.m. on May 20, 2026. The charges were possession of a Schedule VI controlled substance with purpose to deliver and possession of fentanyl. The release roster later showed Speed leaving custody at 1:30 p.m. on May 24. The booking entry does not say what happened in court after the arrest, and it does not establish guilt, but it does show how quickly a drug case can move through local detention.

Phillips County’s public inmate roster and separate 48-hour release view give residents a running look at who is being booked and how long people remain in jail. That matters in a county where recent booking records have also included other serious narcotics allegations. One May 15 entry listed Markee Ross on charges of possession of firearm by certain persons, possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and simultaneous possession of drugs and firearms. Taken together, those records suggest that drug enforcement is not limited to one isolated stop or one isolated suspect.

The fentanyl charge also lands in a broader public-health context. The Arkansas Department of Health reported 389 drug overdose deaths in Arkansas in 2024, down from 516 in 2023. CDC-based reporting in 2025 said overdose deaths and fentanyl deaths had declined in Arkansas, even as fentanyl remained a major public-health problem. The Drug Enforcement Administration has also described fentanyl misuse, poisonings and seizures as a major threat, with fentanyl increasingly mixed with other illicit drugs.

For Phillips County, that combination of local booking records and statewide overdose data turns a routine jail entry into a public-safety measure of pressure on deputies, detention staff and the courts. Phillips County, formed on May 1, 1820, is one of Arkansas’s oldest counties, and its public records now show another fentanyl-related case moving through the system without yet revealing how the legal process will end.