Joshua Thompson, whose last listed address in court records was in the metro Little Rock area, entered a guilty plea to drug-related charges and was sentenced to five years in the Arkansas Department of Correction during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court.
The 28-year-old Thompson was arrested August 7th when staff at a local business called the Mountain Home Police Department and reported that an occupied vehicle had been sitting at the business for a lengthy period of time, the store was getting ready to close and employees did not feel safe leaving the building with the vehicle parked there.
When police arrived, they found Thompson and a female in the vehicle, neither person had a valid drivers license and there was no insurance in effect on the vehicle.
Thompson and the female exited the vehicle and Thompson gave permission to search. An officer saw the female attempt to hide something in her boot. When the woman took her boot off, officers found a cellophane wrapper containing crushed green pills, later identified as Xanax. Another wrapper was found to contain a substance that field-tested positive for methamphetamine and two syringes.
In addition, a small blue container was found on the floorboard of the vehicle holding more of the white crystalline substance that also field-tested positive for methamphetamine.
At the time of his early August arrest, Thompson was an active felony probationer.
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