Ryan Michael Kinsley entered a guilty plea to charges contained in six criminal cases filed against him and was given 20 years in prison during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday.The state dropped two cases.
The 25-year-old Kinsley faced a number of criminal charges, including residential burglary, possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia, breaking or entering, theft of property and theft by receiving.
The most recent charges filed against Kinsley accuse him of possessing drugs and drug paraphernalia. He was arrested June 21st when officers went to an address in Midway as part of an unrelated investigation. Kinsley was found in the home, along with a female. He was first charged with possessing drug paraphernalia. Additional charges were filed when a small metal safe located in the home was found to contain marijuana. Kinsley and the female refused to give officers the combination to the safe. A search warrant was obtained and the safe was forced open. In addition to the marijuana, two black “thumb bags” containing a white power substance believed to be methamphetamine were found.
In mid-June, Kinsley-Daniszewski was charged with theft by receiving when he was found to be in possession of a reportedly stolen handgun.
In January, Kinsley was charged with residential burglary and theft of property stemming from a break-in at a home along Buford Road. According to the probable cause affidavit, the residents of the home were in the process of moving to another Arkansas city, but had not cleared the house of all their possessions. Investigators determined entry had been made through a set of French doors at the rear of the residence.
The victims reported firearms and several jars of coins were missing. Kinsley and another man, Brandy Barnes, were seen at the coin exchange machine at a local grocery store with the jars allegedly taken from the home along Buford Road.
Kinsley is also charged with stealing an expensive mountain bike on September 26th last year. A few days prior to the alleged theft of the bike, Kinsley was identified as a suspect in the theft of a $7,000 Arctic Cat Prowler UTV from the lot of an RV dealer along State Highway 5 North.
A confidential informant was alleged to have told police a second man, Zachary Bales, was offering to trade the stolen UTV for drugs. Bales and Kinsley were identified as the people who took the UTV to a residence where it remained overnight. Kinsley was reported to have returned alone to the residence in a truck the next day, loaded the Arctic Cat in the vehicle and took it to some unknown location.
In May last year, Kinsley was charged with being involved in the break-in of a residence along County Road 608. The homeowner was in the process of making upgrades to the home and was not living in the residence at the time it was broken into.
Investigators found the front door of the home had been kicked in and the garage door had been left partially opened. A lawn mower was found to be missing. The theft was mentioned to the owner of a local roofing company that had done work at the residence. The roofing company owner told the home owner that Kinsley, who had been fired from his job, had come into possession of a mower fitting the description of the one taken from the home on County Road 608.
The mower was eventually located at Kinsley’s residence. He told officers he had purchased the mower from a man named Michael but did not know the sellers last name. The mower had been repainted to alter its appearance.
During Thursday’s court session, Kinsley’s mother made an impassioned plea to Judge Gordon Webb to allow her son to remain free on some type of bond until bed space opened up in the chronically overcrowded Arkansas prison system where the wait time for a bed can be lengthy. Kinsley’s mother said her son had small children and she wanted him to be able to be with them prior to going to prison. If he could not be freed until bed space opened up, the mother requested that Kinsley be given a short furlough. The mother said she and her husband would be responsible for making sure Kinsley stayed out of trouble and would return him directly to jail if he did.
Judge Webb denied the request for bond and for any type of furlough. He said every time he had approved such arrangements he had been burned. The latest came when he allowed a prisoner to have a one day furlough to move property from one location to the home of a relative for safe keeping before returning to jail to await transportation to one of the Community Correction Centers in the state, where he was to enroll in a program designed to help people deal with addictions. The man did returned to the jail as ordered, but brought methamphetamine in to the Baxter County Detention Center with him, which did not make Sheriff John Montgomery happy.
Judge Webb said he did not question his authority to grant such a request, but the bad experiences had turned him against approving any further arrangements to allow a person to remain free for any time pending his transfer from the local jail to the state prison system.
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