Photos: (from left) Danny Joe Bramlett and Terry Lovell
Two men from Clinton managed to commit crimes in Baxter and Stone counties in a single hunting trip.
Sixty-year-old Danny Joe Bramlett and 54-year-old Terry Lovell appeared during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday and entered not guilty pleas to the charges against them.
According to the probable cause affidavit, on Nov. 14, two enforcement officers from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission saw a truck pulled off of the road as they were patrolling the Sylamore Wildlife Management Area in Stone County. The officers suspected the driver was illegally hunting from the vehicle
According to the probable cause affidavit, the officers stopped to talk to Bramlett who was the only occupant in the truck.
He was checked through the National Crime Information Center. The record showed he was a convicted felon with a waiver on file permitting warrantless searches of his person and property.
The officers went through Bramlett’s vehicle and reported seeing two loaded firearms in plain sight. They also saw smoking pipes commonly used in the ingestion of methamphetamine.
Bramlett was taken into custody for being a felon in possession of firearms and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Bramlett told the officers the guns had been given to him by Lovell. He said the men were staying in Lovell’s camper parked just over the line in Baxter County.
Lovell arrived on the scene and admitted to giving the firearms to Bramlett.
According to the probable cause affidavit, Lovell and Bramlett are related, and Lovell knew his relative was a felon and should not be around firearms.
Lovell is also alleged to have reported there was methamphetamine and yet more guns in the camper the men were staying in that was parked in a wooded area in Baxter County.
The Baxter County Sheriff’s Office was contacted and a search warrant was obtained for the camper.
Baxter County deputies found drug paraphernalia in several areas of the camper and a number of weapons in a cabinet.
According to the probable cause affidavit, a white substance contained in a small plastic wrapping field tested positive for methamphetamine.
Bramlett is charged in Baxter County with simultaneously possessing drugs and guns, being a felon in possession of firearms, possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia.
Bramlett’s Stone County charges include being a felon in possession of a firearm and paraphernalia used to ingest methamphetamine.
Lovell is charged in Baxter County with simultaneously possessing drugs and guns, possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia.
There is no criminal case on electronic court records as yet to indicate if Lovell was charged with felony counts in Stone County.
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