Michael Cox
A Midway man was sentenced to four years in prison during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court on July 15.
Thirty-two-year-old Michael Cox pled guilty to drug-related charges stemming from a late October 2020 compliance visit by a parole/probation officer and a member of the 14th Judicial District Drug Task Force.
When the officers arrived at Cox’s residence along Cedar Hills Road, he was not at home, but his wife was reported to have let officers into the house.
In Cox’s bedroom, a glass-smoking pipe used to ingest marijuana was found. A drug dog alerted on Cox’s locked vehicle parked at the residence.
Cox was contacted and asked to return home to unlock his vehicle so it could be searched. He was reported to have adamantly refused.
A search warrant was obtained; officers searched the vehicle and found two aerosol cans with a white residue on the bottom of both containers.
The substance was reported to have field-tested positive for methamphetamine.
New charges stemming from the compliance visit triggered the filing of a petition to revoke Cox’s probation in an earlier drug case.
The state dismissed the revocation petition after Cox pled guilty to his more recent charges.
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