A 28-year-old Midway man, who screamed obscenities and fought with deputies at the court complex on May 20, will be facing new charges in connection with the incident, including second-degree battery on a police officer and impairing the operation of a vital public facility – both felonies – and disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor,
Tyler Cole Hutton, who has an open criminal case in which he is charged with domestic battery, was brought to the court complex from the county jail to deal with that case when the disturbance broke out.
According to a report of the incident, Hutton was brought into the court complex where he spoke to his attorney in a holding area located behind the courtroom where a session of Baxter County Circuit Court was underway.
Jason Michael Biddle
Jason Michael Biddle has had criminal cases opened against him in Baxter and Marion Counties for the past 16 years.
The 34-year-old Biddles’ latest arrest came on April 19.
During a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday, Biddle pled guilty to the drug-related charges in two of his new Baxter County cases and was sentenced to 15 years in prison
According to the probable cause affidavit, officers from the 14th Judicial District Drug Task Force, the U.S. Marshalls Service, the Baxter County Sheriffs office and the Arkansas State Police, along with the K-9 tracking team from the state prison in Calico Rock, converged on a residence along Highway 62 East in Henderson in mid-April.
A former City of Briarcliff employee who pled guilty to stealing money from a water department account in 2019 was back in Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday facing the revocation of the four-year suspended sentence she received in the theft case.
Forty-two-year-old Teri Buege of Mountain Home pled not guilty to violating the terms and conditions of her probation.
In the theft case, Buege was charged with stealing money from Briarcliff city coffers during a period from Dec. 1, 2017 to July 3, 2018.
Investigators said money was diverted from deposits for water service, cash payments received but not recorded or deposited and at least one forged check.
A former Mountain Home man found guilty of stealing from his employer in 2017 was back in Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday.
Fifty-three-year-old Scott Haynes, who now lives in Jonesboro, was facing the revocation of his five year suspended sentence in the theft case.
A revocation petition was filed in July last year accusing Haynes of not showing up for his intake process and not attempting to contact probation/parole. At the time the petition was filed, it was noted Haynes whereabouts were unknown.
Haynes pled guilty to violating the terms and conditions of his probation and was sentenced to four years in the Arkansas Department of Correction.
Thirty-year-old Kip Swadley appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday.
Swadley pled guilty to charges in a new criminal case and had his probation revoked in an older one.
He was sentenced to eight years in the Arkansas Department of Correction.
ONE CRIME LEADS TO ANOTHER
Swadley got in trouble in mid-September 2019, spent time in the county jail and was put on probation for six years after a bench trial in late February last year.
He got in trouble again in early November last year when officers went to his home in Gassville to conduct a probation compliance visit, required because of his sentence in the first case.