Rural MH man arrested on drug, weapons charges

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A traffic stop near Walmart in Mountain Home resulted in the arrest of a Baxter County man on multiple drug and weapons charges. According the Mountain Home Police Department, 57-year-old John Denzer of rural Mountain Home was booked early Wednesday morning, and he posted bond over an hour later.

A Mountain Home patrolman states in the arrest affidavit he was dispatched to the area of Highway 62 East and Walmart Drive last Tuesday on a complaint of a suspected drunk driver. The officer says he observed a vehicle parked at the gas pumps matching the description from the caller. The rear tail lights were reportedly not working as the vehicle left, and the patrolman conducted a traffic stop.

The officer approached the driver identified as Denzer and reportedly smelled an odor of intoxicants. Denzer was instructed to step out of his vehicle for standardized field sobriety tests. The officer reportedly located a glass smoking pipe typically used to ingest methamphetamine near the seatbelt, and Denzer was placed into custody. The patrolman then located a baggie in Denzer’s wallet allegedly containing a white crystal-like substance field-testing positive for methamphetamine. When the officer searched the vehicle, he reportedly located a Sako .17 caliber rifle. Denzer is a convicted felon from Minnesota.

Denzer was transported to the Baxter County Detention Center on felony counts of possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine), possession of drug paraphernalia for the use of ingestion of methamphetamine, simultaneous possession of drugs and firearms and possession of firearms by certain persons. He was later released after posting $5,000 bond, and he is scheduled to appear in Baxter County Circuit Court.

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