A 35-year-old Mountain Home man, initially charged with soliciting sex online from what he believed was a 14-year-old Missouri boy, has had a new charge filed against him.
Adam Michael Johnson appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court Monday and entered a not guilty plea to the new allegations. He had pled not guilty to his initial charges on March 11.
The new accusations stemmed from a search of Johnson’s cellphone seized by law officers after his first arrest.
During that search, according to the probable cause affidavit in the newly opened case, a number of images of prepubescent males were found.
Ryan Lindsey (left) and Allison Cunningham
Murder victim Cody Stradford was alleged to have loudly begged two men to stop hitting him during a violent, and ultimately deadly, encounter at a Mountain Home residence on Dec.4 last year.
According to information just released by 14th Judicial District Prosecutor David Ethredge, 28-year-old Ryan Lindsey and 38-year-old Skylar Whitney Brazil are reported to have beaten the 35-year-old Stradford for up to an hour while he “begged for it to stop.”
It was also announced Monday that the death penalty will be sought for Lindsey and 42-year-old Allison Cunningham. Investigators report Lindsey and Cunningham have allegedly admitted to acquaintances they both shot Stradford at some point during the episode.
A 20-year-old man who has turned his back on a number of breaks given him by the justice system to help him deal with his methamphetamine addiction was in Baxter County Circuit Court Monday to appear in the third drug case filed against him since 2018.
Kane Gott, Jr., who lists a Gainesville address, was recently arrested after allegedly selling two grams of methamphetamine to a person working with law enforcement for $100. Gott entered a not guilty plea to his newest charges.
Gott’s problems with the law began in December 2018 when it was reported he was going into Walmart and using display phones to access Facebook.
Photo: Ryan James Lindsey and Allison June Cunningham
Charges against two of the four people suspected of being involved in the murder of 35-year-old Cody Stradford have been amended to capital murder, meaning the death penalty could be on the table.
Forty-two-year-old Allison Cunningham and 28-year-old Ryan James Lindsey, both of Mountain Home, are now facing the amended charges. They were both arrested in Hidalgo County, Texas.
A bond hearing for Cunningham had been scheduled during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Monday, but was canceled. Bond for both Cunningham and Lindsey remains set at $1 million each.
Prosecutor David Ethredge said Cunningham’s attorney, Gary Mitchusson of Forrest City, had been made aware of the amendment in the charge.
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