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.”
Photo: Brittany R. Brown
A Gassville woman, who was originally charged with throwing her then 69-year-old grandmother to the floor and kicking her repeatedly in the face and head in 2017, was back in Baxter County Circuit Court Monday.
Thirty-five-year-old Brittany R. Brown pled no contest in late May 2018 to charges stemming from the attack on her relative and was put on probation for six years.
She was in court Monday facing the third revocation of her suspended sentence.
She was found to have violated the terms and conditions of her probation and was given a three-year prison sentence.
Brown wasted little time in violating probation the first time. The initial revocation petition was filed in late July 2018 about a month after she was sentenced alleging Brown failed to report to her supervising officer as directed, was no longer living at her approved address and had been avoiding all contact with her probation officer.
Photo: Chris Brim
A Jordan man who has gotten in trouble twice for possessing or threatening to use firearms appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court Monday.
Forty-year-old Chris Brim was sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm. He was booked into the Baxter County jail to await transportation to the Arkansas Department of Correction.
His initial arrest came in mid-March 2019 and stemmed from his involvement in a heated dispute over possession of a pickup truck.
Brim was reported to have been to a residence along Baxter County County Road 419 on two occasions to try and retrieve the truck. The vehicle was registered to his mother and her estranged husband who were then living at the County Road 419 address.
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.
Mountain Home man arrested after breaking into home of murder suspect Lawrence J. Olson, 52 (Source: Baxter County Sheriff s Office) By Region 8 Newsdesk | December 25, 2020 at 7:28 PM CST - Updated December 25 at 7:28 PM
BAXTER COUNTY, Ark. (KAIT) -Deputies with the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man after he reportedly broke into the home of a murder suspect.
According to a press release, the home is the house of Allison June Cunningham, a woman recently arrested and charged with first-degree murder.
A neighbor told deputies they kept an eye on the residence for several days.
On Dec. 23, deputies went to the home because of a break-in. Friday, authorities went back to the house after the neighbor found clothing and other items that had been on the couch on the floor instead.