Former State Trooper Sentenced to 10 Years for Stalking and ACIC Database Abuse

BATESVILLE, Ark. — A 19-year veteran of the Arkansas State Police has been sentenced to a decade in state prison following an investigation into database exploitation, predatory stalking, and terroristic threatening.

Former Corporal Mark Eugene Holland, who was assigned to Troop B, negotiated a plea agreement in Independence County Circuit Court. Holland pleaded guilty to one Class D felony count of misuse of Arkansas Crime Information Center (ACIC) records, one Class D felony count of second-degree stalking, and a reduced misdemeanor count of terroristic threatening. Sixteenth Judicial Circuit Judge Tim Weaver ordered the sentences to run concurrently for a total of 10 years in the Arkansas Department of Correction.

The investigation began after the Independence County Sheriff's Office received a harassment complaint from a local resident and alerted state police command staff. Special agents with the State Police Criminal Investigation Division traced the digital footprint of the harassment directly back to Holland's official state credentials.

According to court-filed arrest affidavits, Holland routinely used his law enforcement security clearance to access the highly restricted ACIC database for non-official purposes between 2016 and 2019. He extracted confidential address details, personal history, and vehicle logs belonging to a woman in her mid-20s who was employed at a business owned by Holland's family.

Prosecutors documented: Holland used the stolen identifiers to execute a long-term harassment campaign, transmitting numerous anonymous, encrypted emails to the victim. The messages included demands for explicit images and grew increasingly hostile, with one transmission stating he would come to her location to get what he wanted. To reinforce the intimidation, automated vehicle logs confirmed Holland frequently drove his marked state patrol unit directly past the victim's private residence.

Faced with the database logs and location tracking data, Holland submitted his resignation to his troop commander in December 2019, immediately before special agents executed a physical arrest warrant. He was initially booked into the Independence County Jail on 20 criminal counts.

Following the sentencing, state police leadership issued a directive emphasizing law enforcement officers are strictly expected to uphold professional and private standards maintaining public trust. In addition to his prison sentence, Holland's law enforcement credentials were permanently revoked by the state, barring him from ever holding a peace officer license or exercising police powers in Arkansas again.

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• Arkansas Times Blog Record: The URL https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2021/09/13/former-state-trooper-pleads-guilty-in-stalking-case-gets-10-year-sentence
• The Batesville Guard Archive: The exact URL https://www.guardonline.com/news/former-cop-gets-10-year-sentence-for-stalking/article_b925d9d8-eb4b-55fe-9a35-0667d1723c15.html
• White River Now Digital Feed: The URL https://www.whiterivernow.com/2019/12/20/more-details-on-arrest-of-state-trooper-accused-of-unauthorized-records-use-stalking-and-terroristic-threatening/

• Arkansas Democrat-Gazette / NWA Online Text:
  https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2021/sep/14/former-arkansas-state-police-trooper-gets-10-year/
• KATV Victim Interview Profile:
  https://katv.com/newsletter-daily/victim-of-stalking-by-former-arkansas-state-police-trooper-tells-her-story
• THV11 News Arrest Coverage:
  https://www.thv11.com/article/news/crime/former-arkansas-state-police-trooper-arrested/91-e983f9f9-0ee8-4e54-90ed-d7688a048b34
• Arkansas State Police Original Case Brief (December 2019):
  https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2019/12/18/state-trooper-resigned-and-charged-with-stalking

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