Photo: Chris A. Gladney
Baxter County Sheriff John Montgomery is notifying the public a Level 3 sex offender (high risk to re-offend) has been released from the Arkansas Department of Correction. Sheriff Montgomery says 60-year-old Chris A. Gladney has registered with the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office and is homeless.
Gladney was convicted of two counts of sexual indecency with a child in June 2010. The offense involved Gladney exposing himself to a number of other people outside their home.
Gladney is not wanted by law enforcement at this time. Montgomery says this notification is not intended to increase fear; rather it is his belief an informed public is a safer public. This information cannot be used to threaten, intimidate, or harass registered sex offenders. Citizen abuse will not be tolerated. Such abuse could potentially end law enforcement’s ability to do community notification.
Photos: (from left) Matthew Braden and Lakota Tripp
The second of two Kansas men, who stole vehicles to make their way to Arkansas and ended up crashing one of them in the parking lot of the Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie at Midway, pled guilty to the charges against him in Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday.
Twenty-one-year-old Matthew Braden was sentenced to six years probation and ordered to pay $2,500 restitution for damage done to a sign at the Eagles Aerie.
The other man involved in the incident, 24-year-old Lakota Tripp was sentenced to five years in the Arkansas Department of Correction, with three suspended and two to serve in December last year.
Photos: (from left) Ryan James Lindsey, Skylar Whitney Brazil and Allison June Beckham Cunningham
Three people have been arrested and charged with first-degree murder after the discovery of a body Wednesday in a burned car south of Mountain Home.
Baxter County Sheriff John Montgomery says the three charged are 27-year-old Ryan James Lindsey, 38-year-old Skylar Whitney Brazil and 42-year-old Allison June Beckham Cunningham, all of Mountain Home.
Montgomery says about 10 Wednesday morning, deputies responded to a 911 call and located a vehicle just off Old Arkana Road and what appeared to be human remains inside. Montgomery says it appears the vehicle had been there for several days.
Escaped inmate back in custody
Escaped inmate back in custody By Region 8 Newsdesk | December 14, 2020 at 2:04 AM CST - Updated December 14 at 5:51 PM
JACKSON COUNTY, Ark. (KAIT) - An escaped Jackson County inmate is back behind bars.
Roger Dylan Rudd, 34, escaped the Jackson County Detention Center around 9:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 13 while awaiting transport to the Arkansas Department of Correction.
The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office issued a BOLO (be on the lookout) and warned the public to not approach him.
Shortly before noon Monday, Dec. 14, Captain Ricky Morales reported that Rudd was in custody and back in the county detention center.
Photo: Jeremiah Wayne Selfridge
A Mountain Home man who pled guilty to having sex with a close female relative and was sentenced to seven years in prison is due for a parole hearing Thursday.
Jeremiah Wayne Selfridge was 18 at the time the charges were brought against him in mid-March 2016 following an investigation launched when the victim filed a sexual assault report with the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office on Jan. 30, 2016.
According to the probable cause affidavit, the incident occurred Jan. 23, 2016 at a residence along Buzzard Roost Cutoff. Selfridge was reported to have been visiting the victim’s residence. At bedtime, the victim said Selfridge asked if he could lay down on the bed with her.