A bench warrant was served on a woman nearly nine years after it was issued. Twenty-seven-year-old Ashli Jenkins was booked into the Baxter County Detention Center Friday evening on multiple drug charges and released the next day after posting $15,000 bond.
A Mountain Home Police investigator received information in May 2009 from a confidential informant stating she had been in contact with Jenkins. The CI alleged Jenkins had sold methamphetamine on previous occasions, and she had offered the drug to the CI on that day. An arrangement was made to purchase narcotics from Jenkins at a predetermined location with authorities providing the CI a body wire/transmitter and $100.
A Jeep arrived in the early afternoon with Jenkins exiting, and the vehicle left the location but remained in the area. An exchange of drugs was made nearly a minute later. The Jeep later returned, and Jenkins left in the vehicle. The CI later made contact with authorities and provided them with a “corner baggie” containing a white crystal substance allegedly sold as one gram of methamphetamine. The informant had previously identified Jenkins with the use of a photograph and stated she was the subject that received the $100 in buy funds. The purchase reportedly occurred near a Mountain Home church.
Jenkins faces felony counts of delivery of methamphetamine or cocaine, distribution of a controlled substance near certain facilities, possession of a controlled substance, possession of methamphetamine or cocaine with with the purpose to deliver and possession of drug paraphernalia and misdemeanor counts of possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.
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