Photo: Casey Dillan Lawson
A 20-year-old rural Mountain Home man, who is alleged to have assaulted his mother, leaving her with serious injuries, made a second unsuccessful try at entering a guilty plea to his charges during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday.
In late September, the plea taking came off the rails when Casey Dillan Lawson could not stop laughing as the facts behind his charges were read.
According to court records, Lawson has dealt with significant mental health issues for some time.
The original agreement, worked out by prosecutors and defense attorney Mark Cooper, called for Lawson to receive a six-year prison sentence with five suspended and one to serve.
Photo: Noah Lee Lawhead
A motorcycle rider who led police on a high-speed chase that began in Gassville, continued through a large swath of Mountain Home and ended at a closed bridge in Missouri about 24 miles up Arkansas Highway 201 North – appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday.
Twenty-year-old Noah Lee Lawhead of rural Mountain Home is charged with felony fleeing and a number of traffic violations.
He changed his plea to guilty and was sentenced to six years probation. The sentence was imposed under provisions of Act 346, meaning if Lawhead stays out of trouble during his probation, he may apply to have his record sealed.
Photo: Joseph Lynn Lyons
A man listing an address in Brockwell was sentenced to 15 years in prison on drug-related charges during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday.
Thirty-six-year-old Joseph Lynn Lyons has a lengthy criminal history.
According to electronic court records, he has been charged with mainly drug-related crimes in Baxter, Cleburne, Fulton, Independence, Izard and Sharp counties.
In some of the counties, he has had more than one criminal case opened against him.
During an investigation into a late January 2020 break-in and theft at a maintenance building at Lyon College in Batesville in which Lyons is alleged to have been involved, he was reported to have 13 prior felony convictions.
Photo: Keaton Garrett Seats
A Mountain Home man who had a very short argument with the armed owner of an ATV he was allegedly trying to steal appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday.
Nineteen-year-old Keaton Garrett Seats, whose last known address was along Christensen Road, changed his plea to guilty and was put on probation for five years on a theft of property charge.
In mid-September, a man called the Baxter County 911 Center to report the theft of an ATV from his residence along Hickory Ridge Drive.
The victim said he had been inside his home when he heard the side-by-side ATV start and saw it being driven out of his yard.
Photo: Gregory Mayfield
A Federal Court judge has dismissed all but two of Gregory Mayfield’s many claims alleging ill treatment while he was an inmate in the Baxter County jail.
The 21-year-old Mayfield of Mountain Home is incarcerated in the Varner Unit of the state prison system on earlier charges.
The lawyer for the four defendants in the case, all employees of the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office/Detention Center, filed a motion for summary judgment in late August last year asking that all of Mayfield’s allegations be dismissed.
In his recently released ruling, Federal District Judge Timothy Brooks said only two of the many claims made by Mayfield could proceed to trial.