Donnie Arnold Carlton was last seen in Newport, Arkansas, during the late hours of a March evening in 2019 at the home of an acquaintance. He was 55 at the time, 5 feet 9 inches tall, about 220 pounds, with brown hair, green eyes and tattoos on both arms and his left shoulder. He used the nickname Don and the aliases Dan Carlton and Gary Johnson.

Carlton had begun supervision with the Arkansas Department of Corrections on February 27, 2019. On April 11, 2019, less than a month after his last reported sighting, the Department of Corrections classified him as an absconder. The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office is the investigating agency. His family and the Newport community have been left without answers; his mother died in December 2021 still not knowing what happened to him.

Does anyone in Newport or the surrounding area remember seeing Donnie in March 2019 or have information that could help locate him?