Photo: Christopher D. Mackey
A man who once tried to run from police, but hit a tree and knocked himself out, appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday and entered a not guilty plea to the latest drug-related charges filed against him.
The most recent arrest for 34-year-old Christopher Mackey of Viola came on Feb. 11 when a vehicle he was driving was stopped by an Arkansas State Police trooper for a minor equipment infraction.
During the stop, a plastic bag was found containing approximately 23.5 grams of a white crystalline substance, two digital scales, a device used to ingest drugs, three syringes and other paraphernalia.
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Photo: Stephen Burkhart
Stephen Burkhart of Mountain Home pled guilty to drug-related charges on Oct. 29 last year and was sentenced to 36 months probation.
The 32-year-old Burkhart violated his probation just 31 days later by picking up a new felony arrest for allegedly breaking into a number of storage units.
He appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday and entered a guilty plea to seven counts of breaking or entering stemming from the storage unit break-ins.
Burkhart was sentenced to six years in prison and ordered to pay almost $2,200 in victim restitution.
The revocation petition in the earlier drug case was dismissed by the state.