Photo: Gavin Reed
Gavin Reed of Midway was arrested Nov. 25 on a string of drug charges, only to be picked up again and jailed 53 days later.
He was booked into the Baxter County Detention Center Jan. 16 on a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Reed entered a not guilty plea to the new charge against him during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday and was ordered to reappear Feb. 8.
His latest charge was filed after a vehicle in which he was riding was stopped by an Arkansas State Police trooper for a minor traffic infraction.
Photo: Allison Cunningham
Three of the four people now charged in the murder of 35-year-old Cody Stradford have entered not guilty pleas.
Allison Cunningham of Mountain Home who was arrested in Hidalgo County, Texas with another person accused in connection with Stradford’s death, 28-year-old Ryan Lindsey, appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday.
Cunningham entered a not guilty plea to charges of first-degree murder, arson, kidnapping, second-degree battery and possession of a firearm by a felon.
She was ordered to reappear Feb. 11.
Cunningham and Lindsey were arrested on Dec. 17 last year. She was returned from Texas and booked into the Baxter County Detention Center on Jan. 13.
Photo: Tommy Dwight Gattis
A Mountain Home man arrested twice within a four-day span pled guilty to the charges against him during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Monday.
Thirty-year-old Tommy Dwight Gattis was given three years in prison.
He was first booked into the Baxter County Detention Center on Dec. 4 last year and rearrested a few days later on additional drug charges.
According to the probable cause affidavit, the first arrest came when Gattis was a passenger in a vehicle pulled over by an Arkansas State trooper.
There were two other adults – 52-year-old Tommy Hitt II and 27-year-old Trystina Meadows in the SUV, as well as a juvenile.
Photo: Christopher Cody Tabler
A Yellville man who fought with a Mountain Home police officer in an attempt to avoid being arrested appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court Monday.
Thirty-eight-year-old Christopher Cody Tabler entered a guilty plea to charges against him and was sentenced to four years in prison.
The Yellville man’s arrest came after the officer responded to an address along Kathleen Street on Sept. 7 last year to check on a complaint that Tabler was violating an active order of protection by being on the property.
When the officer made contact with Tabler, he said he was only there to check on his wife and children.
Photo: Michael Cody Everett
A Clarkridge man accused of making and exploding homemade pipe bombs at his residence appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday.
Thirty-six-year-old Michael Everett was booked into the Baxter County Detention Center July 17 last year and charged with criminal possession of explosive material, criminal use of prohibited weapons (bombs), three counts of possession of firearms by a felon, possessing drug paraphernalia and three counts of endangering the welfare of a minor.
He is also charged with firing a gun out of his SUV in early April last year reportedly to express his displeasure at the speed the vehicle in front of him was traveling. Everett’s attorney, Deputy Public Defender Mark Cooper, said a plea offer had been made in that case. Circuit Judge John Putman ordered Everett to reappear Feb. 11 “if a plea is to be taken.”