A number of people were sentenced to serve prison time during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday.
Renee Smith of Cotter was sentenced to six years in the Arkansas Department of Correction after she admitted that she had violated the terms and conditions of her probation. Smith was given six years probation in October 2013 on drug-related charges.
It was alleged that Smith had sold methamphetamine to a confidential informant on three occasions in November 2013
A petition to revoke her suspended sentence was filed in early March. In the petition, it was alleged she had failed to report to her supervising probation officer as required, had changed her address without the required notification to authorities, and had failed to pay fines and supervision fees.
The 34-year-old Smith admitted that she had violated the terms and conditions of her probation during an appearance in mid-July, but formal sentencing in her case was delayed until Thursday.
Courtney Ragland of Mountain Home was given four years in the Arkansas Department of Correction after pleading guilty in charges contained in three drug-related cases filed against her.
The cases had been filed in June and October of 2015 and in January of this year. According to investigative reports, the 20-year old Ragland was charged with being involved with such drugs and methamphetamine and Oxycontin along with paraphernalia used to ingest the drugs.
According to court records, Ragland had been arrested in the parking lot of a local business, at a motel on U.S. Highway 62/412 and at a residence on Old Military Road which all led to separate cases being filed against her.
She will be given credit for 63 days that she served in jail awaiting disposition of her case.
Jessie Langston, who entered a guilty plea to charges against her in early July, but had her formal sentencing put off until Thursday, was given three years in prison by Circuit Judge Gordon Webb.
The 50-year-old Langston was arrested and charged with being in possession of drug paraphernalia as the result of a home visit by probation and parole officers at a residence in rural Mountain Home. Langston is alleged to have had syringes, plastic baggies containing methamphetamine residue and straws used to ingest the drug in her possession.
Ashley Dawn Trivitt, who has listed both Flippin and Norfork as addresses at various times, was given 12 months to serve in one of the states Community Correction Centers where she will participate in a therapeutic treatment program to be followed by five years probation after she pled guilty to second-degree criminal mischief.
Trivitts attorney, John Russo of the Public Defenders staff, told the court that the plea offer by the state, which would have resulted on her being placed on probation, had been explained to Trivitt, but she wanted to take the seemingly more harsh sentence.
The 24-year-old Trivitt was arrested in mid-October last year for attacking her fathers mobile home in Norfork with a pipe wrench and doing approximately $5,000 in damage.
Her father said that his daughter has been staying with him temporarily, that he had left the residence and when he returned, his daughter was striking the home with a large pipe wrench. The father said he could not account for his daughters behavior but reported to officers that he believe she was under the influence of some unknown substance.
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