A Cotter man has entered a guilty plea to charges stemming from threats he made to three family members in May last year.
The plea change came during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday.
With his parents standing with him at the podium, 36-year-old Dustin James Blair was sentenced to five years probation by Circuit Judge Gordon Webb.
Fourteenth Judicial District Prosecutor David Ethredge said the parents, who were victims of the incident, had come to him and requested their son receive treatment instead of a prison sentence.
According to the probable cause affidavit, Blair was reported to have been intoxicated and under the influence of drugs when he began arguing with his brother and threatened to kill him. Blair was reported to have then pulled out a .25-caliber automatic handgun, pointed it at his father and threatened to shoot him.
The father wrestled the gun away from his son who bolted from the residence and ran through the backyard before officers could arrived.
Blair was taken into custody after he returned to the family’s residence along Sunset Drive in Cotter several hours later.
Blair entered a residential addiction treatment program operated by Care Center Ministries in late June 2018. If he had left the program for any reason, Blair would have been returned to the Baxter County jail.
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