Photo: LeeAnn Michelle Kenniston
A Gassville woman arrested on drug charges twice within a span of just 15 weeks appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday.
Fifty-three-year-old LeeAnn Michelle Kenniston entered a not guilty plea to her latest charges.
She was last arrested Aug. 14 when officers went to her residence along Sagewood Court in Gassville. The home visit was initiated after law enforcement officials received a tip of Kenniston selling methamphetamine from her residence.
According to Baxter County Sheriff John Montgomery, officers located methamphetamine and a white powder testing positive for both methamphetamine and fentynal. Drug paraphernalia was also found.
At the time of the mid-August arrest, Kenniston was free on bond from an April 29 drug-related arrest. The earlier incident stemmed from officers seeking both Kenniston and a male identified as her live-in boyfriend, David Beard.
Both were reported to have active arrest warrants.
During a search of the residence, an “ammo can” was found in the bedroom shared by the couple.
It was alleged to have contained a glass methamphetamine bong, several smoking pipes, digital scales and two plastic bags holding a white crystalline substance.
Kenniston was charged with possession of methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia and marijuana.
The April 29 arrest also triggered the filing of a revocation petition in a 2017 Marion County drug case.
Kenniston is an inmate in the Baxter County Detention Center.
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