Photo: Matthew Hunter Moore
A Northwest Arkansas man, who at one time faced charges in three counties, appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court last Thursday.
Twenty-three-year-old Matthew Hunter Moore, who has listed addresses in various cities in Northwest Arkansas on court documents, is alleged to have committed multiple crimes in Baxter, Benton and Washington counties.
In Baxter County, he was charged with breaking into 12 vehicles and stealing property left inside.
He entered a guilty plea to 12 counts of breaking or entering and four counts of theft of property and was sentenced to six years in prison by Circuit Judge John Putman.
According to the probable cause affidavit in Moore’s Baxter County case, Mountain Home police were called to an apartment complex in the early morning hours of Aug. 7 last year.
Police found that 12 vehicles had been broken into. Video surveillance cameras captured the thefts.
The video shows a white Jeep Grand Cherokee, missing the front bumper, drive into the complex.
A male, later identified as Moore, is shown getting out of the Jeep, entering and going through vehicles parked at the complex.
Moore was interviewed at the police department three days after the incident and is alleged to have confessed to breaking into the vehicles at the complex.
Moore is also charged with breaking into multiple vehicles in Bentonville in mid-March 2020.
According to the probable cause affidavit in that case, the officers reported that personal property in the vehicles had “been thrown around inside.”
A victim reported to police her debit card had been used three times in Bentonville and once in Rogers.
Investigators found there were three people involved in the alleged break-ins. Moore was reported to have been accompanied by another male and a female.
The trio is alleged to have made a number of stops using a debit/credit card linked to the break-ins to make purchases.
Along their way, Moore and his two co-defendants purchased fast food, antifreeze, a plush Easter toy, Flex Seal, chewy candy, a battery pack, ear buds, Flex Glue, Dingdongs, coconut milk, brake fluid and gasoline. They also made an unsuccessful attempt to buy lottery tickets.
The charges filed against Moore and his two companions in that case included breaking or entering and theft by receiving.
Moore is also charged in Washington County with assaulting his mother in mid-September last year and with forging a check in mid-July.
Court documents show Moore was sentenced to 48 months probation to cover both his Washington County cases.
Moore also pled guilty to the vehicle break-ins in Bentonville and was put on probation for five years.
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