Logan Wade Walters of Midway pled guilty recently to a number of charges, including residential burglary, theft by receiving, being a felon in possession of a firearm, breaking or entering and theft of property, and was sentenced to 15 years in prison with eight to serve and seven suspended.
His plea was taken in Boone County Circuit Court. Walters appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court on September 1st, but all of the details related to his plea had not been completed so it was finalized in the neighboring county.
On June 1st, a search warrant was served at a residence along County Road 715 where a citizen tip indicated stolen firearms and marijuana could be found. The 20-year-old Walters and a 17-year-old male juvenile were present when the search was conducted. The items officers found included 10 firearms, a number of knives,and slightly more than 330 grams of marijuana, along with items of drug paraphernalia.
On June 6th, the crime victim – Walters uncle – came to the Baxter County Sheriffs Office and identified firearms stolen from his home. The uncle said he was missing firearms, knives and approximately $45,000 in cash. The uncle said that Walters had lived with him for approximately five years at one point.
Walters was questioned on June 6th and admitted that he and the juvenile had entered his uncles home through a downstairs window. According to a news release from the Sheriffs Office issued on June 3rd, Walters admitted that he and the male juvenile took the cash, a number of guns and knives from a safe in his uncles home.
While the uncle told investigators that $45,000 in cash was missing, Walters said he and the juvenile only took $21,000 – two bags of money containing $10,000 each and one bag containing $1,000 in cash. He said they divided the money and that it had all been spent.
In an earlier case, Walters was sentenced to six years probation after he pled guilty in October last year to charges related to a long string of vehicle break-ins.
According to court records, Walters and Christian Nozar of Mountain Home were both charged with entering vehicles along a route beginning in Gassville, moving through Mountain Home and ending in Salesville.
The Gassville Police Department received 25 reports of vehicle break-ins on June 16th of last year alone. The pair took a significant of items, including money, firearms, wallets, music CDs,, sunglasses an umbrella and cell phone charges in the break-ins which took place I May and June of last year. It was estimated that Walters and Nozar either together or singly entered between 60-70 vehicles.
A petition to revoke the six year probation sentence Walters received in the vehicle break-in case was filed in June of this year after Walters was arrested and charged with possession of a defaced firearm and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Walters will receive credit for time he spends in the Baxter County Jail beginning with his arrest June 1st .
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