A number of people were sentenced to probation or to time in one of the state’s Community Correction Centers during a session of Baxter County Court Thursday.
Donovan Parker, who listed an address in Harrison when he was arrested in March, was given four years probation after pleading guilty to participating in the theft of goods from Walmart.
On March 10th, Mountain Home Police responded to a report of a theft from the store. Video surveillance cameras shows three individuals taking items and leaving the store without paying. The trio left in the same vehicle.
Police spotted the vehicle minutes later on U.S. Highway 62 West and it was stopped. The 23-year-old Parker and two others were in the vehicle and were identified as the ones shown on the Walmart surveillance video.
In addition, multiple items which were seen being taken from the store were in the bed of the pickup truck.
Donovan was also ordered to pay restitution in an amount to be determined later.
He was sentenced under provisions of Act 346, which means that if he stays out of trouble during his probation period, he can apply to the court to have his record sealed.
Two women — Stephanie Kerley of Flippin and Kayla Alderman of Midway — were both sentenced to spend time in one of the Community Correction Centers in the state in unrelated cases.
The 23-year-old Alderman was sentenced to two years and Kerley to one year. Both admitted that they had violated the terms and conditions of their probation in earlier cases.
Alderman was put on probation for 10 years in May on drug-related charges. In the petition to revoke her probation, the allegations including failure to report, possessing drug paraphernalia and failing to enter a treatment which had been made a conditions of her probation.
The 30-year-old Kerley admitted that she had violated the terms and conditions of her probation by picking up a new drug charge in another county. Her time in the Community Correction Center imposed in Baxter County will run concurrently with the sentence imposed in the other county.
Franklin Shrake of Bull Shoals was given three years probation after pleading guilty to drug-related charges that stemmed from a traffic stop in Cotter in September last year.
During the stop, drugs were found in the vehicle occupied by the 36-year-old Shrake and a female.
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