Richard Edward Fink
A cracked windshield and a lapsed auto insurance policy are costing a Mountain Home man three years in prison.
Thirty-seven-year-old Richard Edward Fink appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday and entered a guilty plea to charges against him stemming from an early February traffic stop.
He was sentenced to six years in prison, with 3 suspended and 3 to serve.
When an Arkansas State Police Trooper stopped the vehicle being driven by Fink on Feb. 2, initially because of the cracked windshield, he located a 9 millimeter pistol.
Fink is a felon and it is illegal for him to be around weapons. The trooper also reported finding an item of drug paraphernalia in the vehicle.
According to the probable cause affidavit, all three occupants of the vehicle turned out to be on felony probation with waivers on file permitting warrantless searches of their person or property.
The state dismissed a revocation petition filed against Fink in a 2018 case.
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