A Mountain Home man who angrily confronted police officers seeking to serve a felony warrant on his daughter pled guilty to charges against him stemming from the incident during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday.
Seventy-two-year-old Lowell Williams was sentenced to two years probation.
The confrontation took place in late August last year when officers went to Williams’ home. Police had a warrant for the daughter, 41-year-old Carriell Williams, who faced charges stemming from an alleged mid-June drug transaction in which she is reported to have sold methamphetamine to a person working with law enforcement.
At one point during the fracas, a vehicle driven by Lowell Williams blocked the officers’ car in the driveway. The father said he did not know where his daughter was. He was reported to have become louder and more aggressive as the encounter played out.
Lowell Williams branded the drug charges against his daughter false and demanded to see the warrant for her arrest.
He is alleged to have begun cursing the officers and swinging his arms. At one point, Williams was said to have challenged the officers to take off their guns and badges and fight him.
When the irate parent approached one of the officers attempting to subdue him, he was struck on the right side of the jaw area with an open hand in self-defense.
The daughter was eventually found hiding in the floor on the passenger’s side of the vehicle in which her father had arrived at the residence.
Lowell Williams, who has been free on $5,000 bond, was charged with hindering apprehension, hindering governmental operations, resisting arrest and third-degree assault.
He was sentenced under the provisions of Act 346, the first offender’s law, meaning if he stays out of trouble during his probation period, he can apply to the courts to have his record sealed.
His daughter is due back in circuit court May 16th on the charges filed against her.
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