A man found hiding in a closet when officers came to a Mountain Home residence searching for a person with an outstanding arrest warrant pled guilty to drug-related charges against him during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday and was sentenced to three years in prison.
When officers came to the residence in early January, they found a number of probationers and parolees with outstanding warrants in the house. Forty-four-year-old Billy Jack Bailey of Mountain View was found hiding in a closet.
On the floor of the closet, officers found several hundred dollars and inside the folded money, they located two small plastic bags — one containing a substance field testing positive for methamphetamine and the other a green leafy substance.
In addition, a set of scales and a glass jar containing a smoking pipe and a syringe were located. Bailey was reported to have had a used syringe in his pocket.
Bailey initially gave police the name Robert Lee Deoser. After doing a fingerprint check, the officers discovered the man calling himself Deoser was actually Billy Bailey.
Bailey faced charges of possessing a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia, as well as criminal impersonation for first giving the false name. At the time of his arrest in January, Bailey was a parolee who was wanted for parole violations, according to the probable cause affidavit.
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