Mountain Home attorney Matt Stone appeared for his client — Judy Amanda Cobler of Oakland — during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday and entered a not guilty plea on her behalf to charges stemming from the alleged theft of a diamond ring valued at $10,000 and approximately $14,000 to $15,000 in cash.
According to the probable cause affidavit n the case, the theft of the ring and cash from a Mountain Home residence was reported July 25th. The victim said the ring and currentcy were together in a bag wrapped in foil and hidden behind a couch.
The victim said the 41-year-old Cobler had been to her house the night before she reported the theft and had been shown where the items were hidden.
On November 28th, a local jeweler called the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office and said that two people were trying to sell a ring that had a value of about $10,000 and the jeweler wanted to be certain that the ring had not been reported stolen.
According to court records, one of the two individuals was Hope Cobler, the daughter of Judy Amanda Cobler. The pair had told the jeweler that Hope Cobler had gotten the ring from her mother and that it had been passed down from her grandmother.
An investigator in the Sheriff’s Office recognized Hope Cobler’s last name as one connected with the alleged theft of the ring and cash. A picture of the ring was compared to the description of the one stolen and they matched. The victim later identified the ring as the one missing from her residence.
During the interview of Hope Cobler and her companion, she said that her mother, had given her the ring earlier in the year as a graduation gift.
On December 6th, Judy Amanda Cobler was brought to the Sheriff’s Office. She denied stealing the ring and, according to investigative records, gave different stories as to how her daughter might have gotten the ring, none of which matched what the daughter told investigators.
Judy Amanda Cobler was eventually charged in the theft. She is free on $35,000 bond.
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