The Baxter County Sheriff's Department has arrested four area residents on multiple felony charges, with some having outstanding warrants, during a traffic stop early Friday morning. According to Baxter County Sheriff John Montgomery, a deputy from the Sheriff's Department stopped to investigate a suspicious vehicle located behind an apparently abandoned building at 34 Baxter County Road 25 in rural Mountain Home.
The deputy made contact with the driver, 40-year-old Amy Carol Wilson of Mountain Home, and it was discovered she had multiple warrants for her arrest out of Mountain Home. She was placed into custody. Wilson indicated she was behind the building to drop off a heater and asked if the deputy could make contact with a person inside so her vehicle wouldn't get towed.
Another deputy gained entry into the building and the officers found three people. The first woman they came into contact with was 26-year-old Chantel Biggers, of Ash Flat, who is on probation and has a search waiver on file. She gave false information to officers as to the identity of others in the building. Officers eventually encountered a man with a child, 36-year-old Brandy Brian Barnes; as well as another man; 34-year-old Nathan Eric McDonagh, both of Mountain Home. They had outstanding warrants for their arrest and were placed into custody.
Officers noticed a handgun protruding between mattresses on a bed and seized approximately 24 grams of marijuana, 3.9 grams of meth, hydrocodone and alprazolam pills. They also found numerous drug paraphernalia items.
Biggers was charged with felony hindering apprehension and possession of drug paraphernalia. Her bond is set at $2,500. Barnes was charged with felony possession of meth, possession of a controlled substance, simultaneous possession of drugs and firearms, possession of firearms by a felon, endangering the welfare of a minor and misdemeanor warrants. His bond was set at $36,760. McDonagh was charged with felony possession of drug paraphernalia and an outstanding misdemeanor warrant with bond set at $2,600. Amy Wilson was arrested for the outstanding felony warrants for her arrest on charges of delivery and distribution of meth near certain facilities as well as unlawful use of a communication device. All four were booked into the Baxter County Detention Center and are scheduled to appear in Baxter County Circuit Court on January 26th.
The child was taken into the custody of the Arkansas Department of Human Services, Division of Children and Family Services.
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