A Gainesville man, 34-year-old Dustin Hudspeth, recently pled guilty to felony charges of tampering with a vehicle and is scheduled to make a first appearance in Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday, on felony theft charges, regarding the same incident.
According to the Ozark County Times, Hudspeth was sentenced to a five year suspended prison sentence and supervised probation.
The arrest affidavit for the Baxter County case says the Mountain Home Police Department received a complaint, shortly before 8:00 in the evening February first, Hudspeth had been dropped off near a church and fitness center in Mountain Home and appeared to be impaired from the use of meth and bath salts.
Nearly a half hour later, officers responded to the fitness center were a 1999 Ford F150 pickup truck with a go-cart in the truck's bed was reported stolen.
Later the same evening, deputies from the Ozark County Sheriff's Office went to Hudspeth's residence for a welfare check. Upon arrival, the sheriff's deputy saw the truck with the go-cart, which had not yet been entered as stolen. When the sheriff's office received information of the stolen vehicle several hours later, they returned to Hudspeth's residence, where they confirmed the vehicle was the stolen pick-up truck and took Hudspeth into custody.
According to the Ozark County Times, Hudspeth was sentenced to a five year suspended prison sentence and supervised probation.
The arrest affidavit for the Baxter County case says the Mountain Home Police Department received a complaint, shortly before 8:00 in the evening February first, Hudspeth had been dropped off near a church and fitness center in Mountain Home and appeared to be impaired from the use of meth and bath salts.
Nearly a half hour later, officers responded to the fitness center were a 1999 Ford F150 pickup truck with a go-cart in the truck's bed was reported stolen.
Later the same evening, deputies from the Ozark County Sheriff's Office went to Hudspeth's residence for a welfare check. Upon arrival, the sheriff's deputy saw the truck with the go-cart, which had not yet been entered as stolen. When the sheriff's office received information of the stolen vehicle several hours later, they returned to Hudspeth's residence, where they confirmed the vehicle was the stolen pick-up truck and took Hudspeth into custody.
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