Three people were given lengthy prison time or probation on drug-related charges during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday.
Brian Glade of Flippin, who was involved in bringing significant amounts of methamphetamine and marijuana into Baxter County from California, was given 10 years in prison and forfeited a vehicle to the state allegedly used in the drug business.
The 27-year-old Glade was arrested in late April after admitting he drove to California with a co-defendant, Russell Cleland, obtained drugs, returned to Mountain Home and began selling the products.
Investigators also learned Glade and Cleland initially had 10 pounds of marijuana and approximately one pound of methamphetamine. Search warrants were executed at Cleland’s home along Spring Street in Mountain Home and at another address along Sherwood Hills Drive in late April. At the time of the searches, investigators reported they believed that approximately three pounds of marijuana and nearly seven ounces of methamphetamine had already been distributed.
Glade was charged with possession of methamphetamine and marijuana as well as paraphernalia used for the ingestion of the drugs.
He will receive credit for 197 days spent in the Baxter County jail awaiting disposition of his case.
Cleland’s case remains open. The deadline for accepting or rejecting any plea offer the state might make to Cleland is November 30th.
Peter Schefdore, who is currently an inmate in the state prison system on an earlier conviction, was given seven years in prison after pleading guilty to additional drug-related charges.
In the probable cause affidavit, investigators provide details of drug buys from Schefdore using a confidential informant as the “customer” on February 6th and 7th. The 56-year-old Schefdore was reported to have sold a substance on two occasions field-testing positive for methamphetamine.
In addition to prison time, Schefdore forfeited a 1989 pickup truck used in facilitating drug sales.
Schefdore is listed as an inmate at the North Central Unit of the state prison system at Calico Rock.
Amy Wilson of Mountain Home was sentenced to 90 days in one of the therapeutic treatment centers operated by the Arkansas Department of Community Correction, given 15 years probation and ordered into the 14th Judicial District Drug Court Program.
The 41-year-old Wilson, who pled no contest to the allegations against her, had been charged with various drug-related crimes in three cases, including possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia.
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