Photos: (from left) Walter Patrick Pittaway and Walter Waylon Pittaway
A rural Baxter County man was sentenced to 10 years in prison on drug-related charges during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday.
Sixty-two-year-old Walter Patrick Pittaway faced a string of charges stemming from the possession and sale of methamphetamine.
According to the probable cause affidavit, Pittaway made several sales of the drug to a person working with law enforcement in January.
After the controlled buys were made, officers executed a search warrant at Pittaway’s residence along County Road 27. They reported finding drugs and drug paraphernalia in areas of the house, including in the bedroom of 41-year-old Walter Waylon Pittaway, the older Pittaway’s son.
Officers were told Walter Patrick Pittaway was cutting firewood nearby and they made contact with him. In the truck in which Pittaway was sitting officers saw two glass smoking pipes appearing to have been used recently.
Walter Patrick Pittaway was charged based on the sale of drugs from his home on several occasions, possessing drug paraphernalia and unlawful use of a communications device.
Pittaway asked Circuit Judge John Putman to allow him to remain free until bed space opened in the state prison system, but the judge denied the request. Judge Putman cited bad experiences in the past where people did not turn themselves in as they were ordered and had to be rounded up and arrested again.
The state also seized a 1977 Toyota pickup truck.
Walter Waylon Pittaway was sentenced to 12 years in prison early last month on charges stemming from the drug activity at his father’s home and on charges he picked up on his own. He was arrested in May when he was found in a room at the Executive Inn, along with almost 40 grams of methamphetamine.
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