The Baxter County Sheriff’s Office is looking for the driver a light-colored Hyundai after the vehicle left the scene of an accident early Sunday.
According to the accident report, the silver Hyundai was traveling northbound on Highway 201 around 1 a.m. when it veered off the left side of the roadway, traveled along a ditch and struck a culvert. The vehicle then went airborne, landed in a yard on Sandhill Drive and struck a tree in the residence’s driveway. The driver then fled the scene in the extensively damaged Hyundai.
Damage to the culvert and tree was estimated at $550.
Within a span of 76 days, a Gassville man was arrested three times on drug charges.
Court records show 31-year-old Lonnie Tolliver was taken into custody on January 26, April 6 and April 11.
He appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday on the two cases opened against him in April and entered a not guilty to the charges.
In mid-March, he had entered a not guilty plea to charges stemming from his January arrest.
Tolliver is free on bond in all three of his open cases.
A Mountain Home police officer pulled Tolliver over April 6. According to the probable cause affidavit, the officer knew Tolliver’s driver’s license was suspended.
NEWS 4-19-21 BCSO holding drug take-back event Saturday SL
The Baxter County Sheriff’s Office will participate in the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency’s National Take-Back Day this weekend.
Sheriff’s deputies will be in the parking lot of Orscheln Farm and Home on Saturday from 10 to 2 to accept any unwanted, unused, and potentially dangerous controlled substances and over-the-counter medications from Twin Lakes Area residents. In addition to Saturday’s event, people may use the secure drop box at 206 West 8th Street that is accessible at all times. This lock box is under 24 hour recorded video surveillance for security purposes.
Photo: Mac Ryan Chitwood
A man from Lonoke, who was released from the Arkansas Department of Corrections’ Varner Supermax facility in Gould Monday, was arrested upon his release by Baxter County Sheriff’s Deputies on charges from nearly five years ago. Thirty-one-year-old Mac Ryan Chitwood, who has a lengthy criminal record in the state, is also wanted on charges in Sharp and White counties. He just finished serving over four and a half years of a ten year sentence from Izard and Sharp counties for commercial burglary, battery, breaking and entering, theft of property and criminal mischief. It was his second time in the state prison system.
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.