A Mountain Home woman, whose arrest led to an angry confrontation between police and her 72-year-old father, made a first appearance on drug-related charges during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court last week.
Forty-year-old Carriell Williams entered a not guilty plea and was ordered to reappear in circuit court Nov. 29th.
Williams was arrested on the charges after she was found hiding on the floor of the passenger’s side of her father’s vehicle. She is charged with selling a gram of methamphetamine to a confidential informant working with police in mid-June and illegally using a communications device to set up the transaction.
According to the probable cause affidavit, parts of the deal between the informant and Carriell Williams were recorded.
When officers went to the home of the father — Lowell Williams — with a warrant for his daughter’s arrest, the father became irate, challenging the officers to take off their guns and badges and fight.
At one point during the confrontation, the officers’ vehicle was blocked in by one driven by Lowell Williams when he returned to the residence, evidently with his daughter hiding on the floor.
Lowell Williams demanded to see the warrant on which his daughter was being arrested, branded the charges false, ordered the officers off his property, cursed the officers and wound up swinging his arms in such a manner one of the officers struck Lowell Williams in the right side of the jaw with an open hand in self-defense.
The father was reported to have become more loud and aggressive as the confrontation played out.
He was finally subdued and arrested. It was after his arrest his daughter was found hiding in his car, even though Lowell Williams had professed he did not know where his daughter was.
Lowell Williams also faces charges in connection with the incident — including hindering apprehension, resisting arrest, third degree assault and disorderly conduct.
He appeared in circuit court earlier this month and entered a not guilty plea to the charges brought against him as a result of the incident.
Both father and daughter are being represented by attorneys from the Public Defender’s Office.
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