A Marion County man, 36-year-old Derek Baker of Flippin, has been arrested in Mountain Home after law enforcement was alerted to a man clad only in his underwear attempting to enter the Baxter County Library.
According to the probable cause affidavit, the caller to the Mountain Home Police Department advised the man, later identified as Baker, was saying he owned the library.
An officer arrived at the library to find Baker dressed as earlier described and sweating profusely.
When asked why he was dressed as he was, Baker is reported to have replied, “It’s a free country, isn’t it?”
Baker then allegedly gave law enforcement what they would later learn was a fictitious name and began to speak incoherently about living in the library.
When the officer attempted to arrest Baker, he is reported to have jumped a retaining wall and began running around the library.
With the officer chasing him, Baker then reportedly jumped a barbed wire fence into a field with cattle.
As a second officer joined in the case, the two noticed about 20 cows staring at a nearby barn, where Baker was then located.
As Baker was being taken into custody, he was asked what he had taken. He replied an unknown individual had given him some pills.
The Marion County man has been charged with public intoxication, fleeing on foot and obstructing government operations, after it was discovered he had provided a fictitious name.
Online jail records indicate his bond was set at $770.
Online jail records also reflect Baker having been arrested on June 26 and being charged with parole violation and third-degree battery.
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