Photo: Joseph Lynn Lyons
A man listing an address in Brockwell was sentenced to 15 years in prison on drug-related charges during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday.
Thirty-six-year-old Joseph Lynn Lyons has a lengthy criminal history.
According to electronic court records, he has been charged with mainly drug-related crimes in Baxter, Cleburne, Fulton, Independence, Izard and Sharp counties.
In some of the counties, he has had more than one criminal case opened against him.
During an investigation into a late January 2020 break-in and theft at a maintenance building at Lyon College in Batesville in which Lyons is alleged to have been involved, he was reported to have 13 prior felony convictions.
Lyons has also listed a number of addresses in documents filed in his various criminal cases, including Batesville, Brockwell, Violet Hill, Cave City and Mt. Pleasant.
His latest Baxter County charge stems from a traffic stop in late August last year.
Lyons was initially pulled over by a Mountain Home police officer on a minor traffic violation.
When the officer searched the vehicle in which Lyons was a passenger, marijuana, methamphetamine and smoking pipes were located.
In the probable cause affidavit, the officer reported Lyons appeared to be reaching down in an effort to conceal something.
A plastic bag containing a green leafy substance consistent with marijuana/K2 was located in the area where Lyons appeared to have been reaching.
After being read his Miranda rights, Lyons agreed to speak to the officer. He admitted he had been trying to conceal the bag containing the green leafy material so he “would not get in trouble.”
Lyons was also arrested Nov. 1, 2019, by a Baxter County deputy sheriff and was found to have methamphetamine in his vehicle and a prescription medication used to treat anxiety.
A smoking pipe used to ingest methamphetamine was also found.
When the deputy went back to his patrol car, after delivering Lyons to the Baxter County jail, he found a plastic bag containing a white crystalline substance under the back seat where Lyons had been sitting during the trip to jail.
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