Klayton Killian of Gassville changed his plea to guilty on drug-related charges and was sentenced to 12 years probation and ordered into the 14th Judicial District Drug Court Program during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday.
Killian will also spend 90 days in one of the Community Correction Centers in the state undergoing treatment for his addictions before returning to Baxter County to enter the drug court program.
It normally takes two years or longer to complete the program.
The 25-year-old Killian’s latest arrest came in late March when officers went to his residence along Tucker Cemetery Road to investigate a theft report in which Killian had been named a suspect.
At the time, Killian was on probation with a warrantless search waiver on file. Investigators found a white powder residue field testing positive for methamphetamine, as well as plastic bags and smoking devices.
Killian was charged with several counts of possessing drug paraphernalia.
This was not Killian’s first brush with the law. In late December 2015, he made the mistake of including a plastic container of methamphetamine in the items he emptied out of his pockets and onto a table at the security station located at the entrance to the court complex building.
He was put on probation for three years on a charge connected to that incident.
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