Two get probation during Baxter County Circuit Court

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Two people were given probation after changing their pleas to guilty on the charges against them during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday.

Joshua Crawford of Gassville was put on probation for six years and ordered to pay $2,500 in restitution after pleading guilty to damaging units in the Midway Mobile Home Park in January of last year.

The 20-year-old Crawford and a companion were accused of firing air rifles indiscriminately in the community. Crawford was charged with criminal mischief.

William Thompson, who described himself as homeless during an earlier court appearance, was given five years probation after pleading guilty to a number of charges filed as the result of an April 8th incident.

The 44-year-old Thompson was arrested after Mountain Home police officers noticed a suspicious vehicle in the parking lot of a local business.

The officers reported that the windows of the vehicle were heavily fogged and covered with towels. When the officers knocked on the windows of the vehicle, they received no response. When one of the officers attempted to open a door on the vehicle, a person later identified as Thompson pulled it shut.

The officers reported that Thompson then started the vehicle and drove forward striking a patrol vehicle.

Thompson was said to have thrown objects from the vehicle before attempting to flee from the scene on foot. A taser was eventually employed enabling the officers to subdue Thompson and take him into custody.

According to court records, Thompson was reported as being incoherent, telling the officers at one point that there were two more people in his vehicle, when, in reality, the vehicle was empty. During an inventory of the vehicle’s contents, officers found two small plastic bags containing a crystalline substance as well as glass smoking pipes often used to ingest methamphetamine.


   

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