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A man charged with selling or possessing a substantial amount of methamphetamine and other drugs was sentenced to eight years in prison during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday.
Thirty-two-year-old Corey Saylor of Mountain Home pled guilty to the charges against him earlier this month and was ordered to appear Thursday to be sentenced by Circuit Judge Gordon Webb.
According to court records, Saylor was accused of selling methamphetamine from a residence on Bomber Boulevard, about 1,000 feet from the Mountain Home High School campus. The buys were made by confidential informants in June and July last year.
Officers served a search warrant at the Bomber Street address on July 18, 2018 and reported locating methamphetamine, Suboxone strips and a variety of paraphernalia used for ingesting drugs.
They also found a NARCAN kit. NARCAN is an FDA-approved, non-addictive treatment for known or suspected opiod overdoses. It can be purchased from a pharmacy.
It was announced in court Thursday Saylor has successfully completed a seven-month, inpatient stay at a rehabilitation center in Jonesboro.
Judge Webb broke one of his rules by allowing Saylor to stay out of jail until bed space opens in the chronically overcrowded state prison system. The judge is reluctant to allow this type of arrangement because people in the past have abused the privilege by not showing up when it was time to transport them to the prison intake center and had to be rounded up again.
Judge Webb said, largely because of Saylor’s record at the Jonesboro rehab facility, he was granting the request.
Prosecutor David Ethredge told the court it was rare when he supported such a request from a defendant, but said, “This man has done everything we asked him to do.”
Saylor is required to continue working, take regularly-scheduled and random drug tests, not leave the county and report to the jail every Monday and Friday.
In addition, Saylor will be required to post a $2,500 bond.
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