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.
Two aging motels, one formerly classified as a nuisance property by the City of Mountain Home, will be sold at public auction at 4 p.m. May 6 at the Baxter County Courthouse, according to Sheriff John Montgomery.
The property was seized in January via a Writ of Execution filed against owner Brian Keith Ferguson in Baxter County Circuit Court to satisfy a judgment. Ferguson has the opportunity to redeem the property by paying the amount of the judgment up until the start of the auction, according to the sheriff.
The Mountain Home Motel is located at 411 Main St. and was classified as a nuisance property by the city in 2019. In May of 2020, the court ordered the property have a list of repairs completed in two weeks, or it would be razed. Ferguson was able to have the repairs completed in a timely matter, thus terminating the condemnation process.
Kevin Wade Beck of Mountain Home was arrested on various drug charges after the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office responded to a public disturbance call shortly after midnight, Sheriff John Montgomery said.
At approximately 12:09 a.m. Tuesday morning, Deputy Bryce Hinson arrived at the Citgo Station on Buzzard Roost Road in response to a man yelling at a woman and threatening her. The man was identified as 40-year-old Kevin Beck, Montgomery said in a news release announcing the arrest.
Hinson arrived at the gas station and made contact with Beck, who was getting into a pickup truck intending to leave, the news release states. Beck was detained and arrested by the deputy because of an outstanding body attachment for non-payment of child support. Beck was searched as part of the arrest, and Hinson reportedly found a black pouch on Beck’s person that contained a scale, spoon, three needles, clear baggies and small bags of various substances believed to be approximately 6.28 grams of
A Stone County man has returned to prison following a traffic stop in the Ozark-St. Francis National Forest late last month.
According to the probable cause affidavit in the case, 37-year-old Travis A. Langston of Mountain View was a passenger in the stopped vehicle.
Langston reportedly gave law enforcement consent to search the car he was traveling in.
During the search, multiple small bags of a white crystal substance were allegedly located. The bags were in a tackle box in the back seat of the vehicle.
After being read his rights, the Stone County man reportedly told law enforcement the substance was methamphetamine.
A Louisiana woman was arrested Wednesday night after allegedly crashing her vehicle into a house.
Baxter County Sheriff John Montgomery said that deputies received a 911 call shortly after 10 of a vehicle that had intentionally crashed into a house on Larkspur Lane, north of Mountain Home.
When deputies arrived, they determined that the driver of the vehicle, 49-year-old Shannon Marie Langevin of Prairieville, Louisiana, was the mother and grandmother of several of the people inside the residence.
Deputies determined that the residence was a vacation rental property and that the residents, who were from Louisiana and Georgia, were staying there along with Langevin.