Photo: Mark Dohrman
A Mountain Home man arrested on drug charges after being pulled over for a traffic violation in mid-December last year appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court earlier this month.
Fifty-five-year-old Mark Dohrman was stopped by an Arkansas State Police trooper Dec. 12 in Midway for not wearing a seatbelt.
When the trooper checked computer records, he found Dohrman had active warrants in Baxter County, as well as Gainesville. The Missouri warrant showed Dohrman was wanted on a marijuana charge.
He also had a suspended driver’s license.
When the trooper inventoried Dohrman’s vehicle, he found suspected methamphetamine and paraphernalia used to ingest the drug.
Dohrman was transported to the Baxter County Detention Center and booked in. His bond is set at $12,000. He has been an inmate in the jail since being arrested.
At the time of the December incident, Dohrman was on probation in a case filed against him in 2018.
The arrest came when officers went to Dohrman’s Cotter residence in May 2018 looking for another person, Alicia Pierce.
Photo: Alicia Pierce
Dohrman said the woman had been at his home the previous evening, but he had taken her to her mother’s residence that morning.
Despite what Dohrman said, when officers searched the home, they found Pierce. Dohrman was initially arrested for hindering apprehension. The officers then found drugs, including methamphetamine and hydrocodone, in the residence.
Dohrman pled guilty to the earlier case in April last year and was sentenced to six years probation. A petition has been filed to revoke his probation, based on the new charges stemming from the December 2019 traffic stop in which the drugs and drug paraphernalia were found.
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