Where is Craig “Kiki” Corristan?
A missing child. A father fighting for help. The obstruction he describes demands accountability from Mena Police.
We live in Arkansas, too. Helping keep Craig visible matters to us.
Updated · KATV coverage and police-reported State Police referral added
Latest coverage ·
KATV: Mena Police says arrest information went to State Police.
KATV reports that Mena Police reviewed Sgt. Eddie Price’s use of force during Edward Corristan’s March 15 arrest and forwarded incident information to Arkansas State Police for independent review.
The article describes pepper spray and a punch while Corristan’s hands were raised. It also reports MPD’s statement that he was convicted on July 21 of interference with a law enforcement officer and disorderly conduct and fined (MNC-26-141).
An arrest case does not answer what police did to find Craig. Chief Stueart: publish the force-review findings, identify when the referral was made, and show the records of your department’s response to the missing-child report. A referral is a step; the public still needs answers.
The referral is police-reported. KATV gives no referral date or State Police findings. October 13 is the article’s publication date.
Urgent update ·
A missing child. A father met with ridicule.
The screenshot below shows a comment under the name Tracey Price, identified in a public post as Mena Sgt. Eddie Price’s wife. It opens:
“FUCK AROUND AND FIND OUT ASS HOLE!”
The comment continues, I'm not staying quiet anymore!
and calls the man a looser
—spelling as shown. A reply addresses her husband’s conduct and describes the father as begging for help finding his son.
A father searching for his child deserves urgency and answers. Ridicule explains nothing about when police accepted his report, what they did to find Craig, or why force was used against his father.
Chief Stueart: the questions remain. Release the reporting timeline, the complete encounter recordings and the findings of any force review. Show what your department did to help find Craig.
Source context: The relationship is attributed to the linked public post. The screenshot does not show the original post, its URL or an absolute posting time; the originating account and full thread have not been independently authenticated. This is a comment attributed to an individual, not an official Mena Police statement.
The missing-child flyer
Keep Craig’s face in view.
Earlier flyer shared by the family. The Morgan Nick Foundation has posted an updated-contact appeal. Check that source for current reporting instructions before sharing this copy.
The chronology · Sources linked at each step
The dates behind Craig’s story.
Craig’s listed missing date
The Morgan Nick Foundation flyer gives this as the date Craig went missing from Mena. It does not establish when police first received a report.
Source: foundation flyerCustody order and body attachment filed
The court awards his father primary custody, directs law-enforcement assistance if necessary and issues a body attachment for Stirling Freeman. The service return in this copy is blank.
His father’s encounter with Mena Police
My Pulse News’s contemporaneous police roundup lists Edward Corristan as charged at the police department. The encounter video is linked below for readers to examine.
The chief’s response is published
The Mena Star’s linked post dates Chief Tommy Stueart’s statement concerning the arrest video to October 6.
Source: The Mena Star’s statement postTracey Price screenshot added here
We publish the supplied comment screenshot and the attributed identification of Tracey Price as Sgt. Eddie Price’s wife. This is our publication date; the image does not show the comment’s exact posting date.
Read the update and inspect the screenshotKATV coverage published
The article reports MPD’s account of a State Police referral; its date is unspecified.
The public record
Craig’s name is on Arkansas’s missing-person list.
The Arkansas Crime Information Center’s Never Forgotten listing identifies Craig Bailey Corristan, lists his age as 2, gives November 14, 2025 as his missing date, and names Mena Police as the reporting agency.
- Missing-person case number
- 25-12203
- Missing from
- Mena, Arkansas
- Height / weight listed
- 2 feet / 25 pounds
- Hair / eyes listed
- Blond or strawberry / brown
The Morgan Nick Foundation’s public appeal identifies him as Craig “Kiki” Corristan and says he was last seen at the Mena Walmart.
Registry details checked October 6, 2026. This is the public missing-person entry; the underlying police report is not included here.
Read the court records
The March order awards his father custody and directs law-enforcement assistance.
These filed orders come from Polk County Circuit Court case 57DR-23-180, Edward Ross Corristan v. Stirling Moriah Cova et al. The March 11, 2026 default order awards Craig’s father primary custody, gives Stirling Freeman no visitation at that time, and directs law enforcement to assist with enforcement if necessary.
Default custody order
Three pages. See paragraphs 4–5 for custody and visitation, paragraph 7 for the body attachment, and paragraph 8 for the direction to law enforcement.
Body attachment
Two pages. Directs law enforcement to take Stirling Freeman into custody and notify the court. It sets out steps to purge the contempt. The return-of-service section in this copy is blank.
Order denying emergency relief
Two pages. The court denied the request for relief without first hearing the other party, citing Rule 65 requirements, and directed the father to arrange a hearing after notice.
Complete PDFs copied unchanged from the Arkansas Judiciary’s public docket on October 6, 2026, including filing stamps and electronic-signature pages. These orders establish what the court directed; they do not establish what steps police subsequently took or whether the body attachment was served.
The police encounter
The video behind the public outcry
Lost Son Corruption Watch published a video describing a Mena police officer’s alleged attack on a father trying to report his missing son. The source is linked below so readers can examine the encounter and the publisher’s account directly.
My Pulse News’s March police-report roundup lists Edward Corristan’s arrest at the police department on March 15, on charges of interference with a law enforcement officer and disorderly conduct. That date is four days after the March 11 custody order. The charges alone do not establish whether the force used was justified.
Newly added · October 7, 2026
The chief has spoken. Now show the records.
The Mena Star published Police Chief Tommy Stueart’s October 6 statement about the arrest video. KAWX Radio also published the department’s response. Read those sources alongside the court orders and the father’s account below.
An explanation of the father’s arrest does not, by itself, account for the response to his missing child. The reporting chronology remains a separate question.
The standard police must answer to
A missing-child report is not a favor.
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children explains that federal law bars a waiting period before accepting a missing-child report and requires entry into the FBI’s National Crime Information Center database within two hours of receiving the report, regardless of why the child is missing. It cites 34 U.S.C. § 41308.
The two-hour period runs from receipt of a report, not automatically from the date a child disappeared. Those timestamps have not been established by the records collected on this page.
NCMEC’s explanation of federal missing-child reporting requirements · Legislation section
The father’s account
Getting his missing child reported was a struggle.
In an April 14, 2026 public post under the name BringCraigHome, Craig’s father said Mena Police refused to file a missing-person report until March 2026. He also alleged that the department was not cooperating with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
The conduct his account describes is disgraceful. A father searching for his two-year-old should not have to battle the very department responsible for receiving his report. Making that basic step an ordeal is a failure of policing at its most elementary level. A family’s desperation deserves urgency, attention and competent work.
Chief Stueart: answer the refusals and delays he describes, officer by officer and decision by decision. If your department disputes his chronology, put the dated records on the table. Every substantiated failure deserves consequences.
Read the father’s dated public account
Mena Police: name the decision-makers. Release the records.
- When did the first request for help reach police? Identify the calls, station visits and written reports, with dates and times. Account for each refusal the father describes: name the decision-maker and provide the recorded reason.
- When was Craig entered into the missing-person systems? Provide the report-receipt and database-entry timestamps needed to assess compliance with the two-hour requirement.
- What did police do after the March 11 order? Identify when the department received it, who was assigned to assist and what enforcement or referral steps followed. Identify the body attachment’s service status and documented attempts.
- What assistance was requested for Craig? Account for contacts with NCMEC and other agencies, the dates of referrals and the follow-up on leads.
- Who reviewed the force used against his father? Identify the conduct relied on to justify each use of force, the applicable policies, the reviewer and any findings. Release the complete recordings and releasable review records, with appropriate privacy redactions.
- What happened to the State Police referral? Provide its date, the material sent, any acknowledgment of receipt, the review’s scope and status, and any releasable findings. Identify whether the handling of Craig’s missing-child report was included.
The same demand in our case
A victim should not have to investigate the handling of her own case.
Craig’s father describes having to fight to get police to take his missing-child report. That struggle to obtain basic help is why his account matters to us. When someone turns to law enforcement, getting their account recorded accurately and acted on should be the starting point. They should not have to build a public website to demand it.
In our case, a female passenger reported repeated nonconsensual touching on a Greyhound bus near Gallup on July 16, 2026. On Deputy Miguel Bittony’s bodycam, she says “Four times” and holds up four fingers. The original report describes continued touching and her immediate confrontation. The September 9 narrative sent to the district attorney still contains that passage. The complaint Bittony signed, filed with the court on September 10, leaves it out.
The complaint keeps her initial thought that the contact might have been accidental. It removes the passage explaining that the contact continued. That difference changes what a reader sees about why she confronted him. The two versions are published side by side. Readers can see the missing words for themselves.
Sheriff James Maiorano III called the underlying investigation “sufficient” on August 21. After the complaint discrepancy was raised, District Attorney John William Bernitz wrote on September 23 that he was “not concerned” and did not believe it was material. Neither response identifies who removed the passage or explains why it disappeared before the complaint reached the court.
The passenger has sought the preparation and editing records. The published record still does not identify the editor or establish the reason for the change. She should not be left piecing together what happened to her own account while the officials responsible for handling the case leave those questions unanswered.
- Bittony: Who prepared the version you signed? What did you compare it against? Why did you sign a narrative missing this passage from the account you had sent the night before?
- Maiorano: Who is responsible for reviewing this discrepancy? What has that review established, and what corrective action will follow its findings?
- Bernitz: Explain why you consider the missing passage immaterial. Identify the complete account and recordings you relied on, and address the difference readers can see.
A badge does not turn an unanswered question into an unreasonable one. Name who made the change. Produce the existing drafts, metadata, revision history and approval records. Explain the omission. Correct what the evidence shows is wrong. A victim deserves an accurate record and accountable officials without having to fight for every answer.
Demand answers from the officials handling our case.
If Craig’s story brought you here and you also want to know who changed the account in our case, send the prepared request to the McKinley County officials and records personnel involved. It demands the editor’s identity, the reason for the omission, the editing records and corrective action.
