James Phillip Womack

James Phillip Womack is the son of Steve Womack, a Republican U.S. congressman who has represented Arkansas's 3rd congressional district since 2011. James Womack has a lengthy criminal history: in September 2018, at age 31, he was arrested on more than ten state charges involving drugs and firearms. He entered a plea agreement and in 2019 received a nine-year state prison sentence on multiple felony counts. On April 26, 2023, a federal grand jury indicted Womack on two counts: distribution of more than five grams of actual methamphetamine, and possession of a firearm as a convicted felon. He reached a plea agreement in which he pleaded guilty to the methamphetamine distribution count; the firearms charge was dismissed. On May 21, 2024, U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks sentenced him in the Western District of Arkansas.