A Mountain Home man was given eight years in prison during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday.
Thirty-three-year-old Ryan Amyx pled guilty to charges in two cases, including those stemming from a break-in at a business in which jewelry valued in the thousands of dollars was stolen.
In the older case, Amyx was allegedly caught on surveillance cameras both on the interior and exterior of the business building located on U.S. Highway 62/412 East in mid-September 2018.
At one point, Amyx could be seen attempting to hide himself by crouching behind a display counter as the sliding door was opened and trays of jewelry removed. He was also seen taking money from the cash register.
Kathleen Pieri-Brown (Photo courtesy of Baxter County Sheriff’s Office)
A Mountain Home woman, Kathleen Kelley Pieri-Brown entered a guilty plea to some drug-related charges against her and no contest to others during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court.
The 41-year-old Brown was sentenced to six years in prison.
She was last booked into the Baxter County Detention Center on March 21 on an outstanding warrant. According to the probable cause affidavit, a jail staff member found drugs in Pieri-Brown’s personal property.
The substances tested positive for both methamphetamine and Fentanyl.
She was charged with possession of a controlled substance and with having those substances in the county jail.
Christopher Leon Osborn
A man accused of pistol-whipping another male and stealing items from the victim was to go before a jury Tuesday in Baxter County Circuit Court.
But, 44-year-old Christopher Leon Osborn decided to take a plea instead.
Circuit Judge John Putman sentenced Osborn to six years in prison after he pled guilty to reduced charges of theft by receiving and being in possession of a defaced firearm.
Osborn’s trial, which was to be held in the Educational Building of the Baxter County Fairgrounds, would have been the first jury trial in the county since COVID-19 restrictions halted such proceedings more than a year ago.
Criminal trials are not normally held at the Baxter County Fairgrounds, but the COVID-19 pandemic created a "new normal" in the way courts operate. On Monday, a
Haleigh Angier
A 22-year-old Mountain Home woman, who allegedly left toddlers, ages one-and-three-years-old, alone and crying in an apartment, entered a guilty plea to the charges against her in Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday.
Haleigh Josephine Angier was sentenced to 10-years probation. Prosecutor David Ethredge said various agencies, including Juvenile Services and the Arkansas Department of Human Services(DHS), had been involved in making the sentencing recommendation for Angier.
Angier and 24-year-old Timothy Jason Burkhart, Jr. both lived in the second floor apartment, and both were charged in the child endangerment case.
They were originally accused of endangering the welfare of the two minor children and possessing drug paraphernalia