A Henderson man, 53-year-old David Southerland, already convicted of at least 10 felonies has been arrested again by Arkansas State Police.
According to the probable cause arrest affidavit, a State Police corporal conducted a traffic stop Monday on the vehicle Southerland was driving along U.S. Highway 62 in Baxter County. Officers had been receiving information he was involved again in the distribution of illicit drugs. They are aware that Southerland is on probation/parole through Arkansas Community Correction and a signed search waiver is on file. A search of his vehicle revealed two bags of crystalline matter weighing a combined 3.7 grams, a small bag of suspected marijuana, a used glass smoking pipe with narcotic residue, a metal smoking pipe with burned vegetable matter, an opened package of rolling papers and a set of digital scales.
Offices traveled with Southerland to his residence and recovered several used syringes, a metal spoon containing suspected methamphetamine and an operational counter-surveillance camera system.
According to state and national crime information centers, Southerland has been convicted of at least 10 felonies.
In his latest brush with law enforcement, Southerland entered a not guilty plea in Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday to a felony charge of possession of a controlled substance, methamphetamine, with the purpose to deliver, as well as three other felony charges involving possession of a controlled substance, methamphetamine, and drug paraphernalia. He was charged as a habitual offender, having been convicted of four or more felonies. His bond was set at $10,000.
In 2013, Southerland was freed after being held without bond for more than a year in connection with the 2009 burglary, theft and arson of Ozark County Prosecuting Attorney Tom Cline’s home in Pontiac, according to Ozark County Times archives. Southerland was about to go to trial in Howell County on a change of venue when he was released from jail and all charges dropped.
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