Photo: Timothy Clark
A Calico Rock man appeared during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday and pled guilty to charges stemming from the theft of narcotics from a medication cart in the county jail.
Thirty-one-year-old Timothy Clark is reported to have taken 26 dosage units of Suboxone from the medication cart April 3. He was sentenced to eight years probation.
Suboxone is used in the treatment of opioid dependence and comes in strips that melt when placed under the tongue or between the gums and cheek.
When the drug was found missing, security camera tapes were reviewed. Clark is reported seen exiting the B-Pod and going directly to the medication cart.
He is then seen opening the top right-hand drawer and removing something that he puts in his jail uniform pants. The drawer is the one where narcotics are stored, according to the probable cause affidavit.
According to the surveillance video, Clark only takes about 20 seconds to accomplish the theft. He then returns to his cell.
The Suboxone was removed from the cart between morning and afternoon “pill call.” During that time, the medication cart was reported to have been located against the west wall of the housing corridor.
The surveillance video also shows that when a jailer leaves the B-Pod housing area, a number of inmates gather around Clark presumably to share the stolen drug.
One inmate is then seen sliding something under a door leading to C-Pod, a female living area. A woman on the other side of the door retrieves the item and goes up the stairs to the second level of the pod.
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