Photo: Tanner Ray Sebold
A 27-year-old Mountain Home man serving a 12-year prison sentence for a string of crimes appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court last Thursday.
Tanner Ray Sebold pled guilty to the remaining charges against him in both Baxter and Marion counties and was given six years in prison.
The sentence will run concurrent with the sentence he is now serving.
Sebold was arrested on the newest Baxter County charge Feb. 25 last year. Ironically, he was free on a court-approved plan to allow him to be out of jail when his girlfriend gave birth to their child.
Now retired Circuit Judge Gordon Webb had approved the request on Feb. 20, the day he formally imposed the 12-year prison sentence.
Under the plan, Sebold was to report to the Baxter County jail within 24 hours of the birth that was expected at any time.
Instead, he was arrested by Cotter police on suspicion of theft of property and possessing drugs and drug paraphernalia.
Sebold was taken into custody when police went to an apartment complex in Cotter to help the manager serve an eviction notice on him. He had allegedly stolen a flat screen television set from another apartment.
According to the probable cause affidavit, Sebold gave permission to search the apartment.
Officers reported finding a small amount of marijuana, plastic bags containing a residue believed to be methamphetamine and a glass pipe used to smoke methamphetamine.
After he had violated the arrangement by being arrested in Cotter, Sebold was immediately taken to the state prison system’s intake center at Malvern to begin serving his 12-year sentence.
He is an inmate at the Delta Regional Unit in Dermott.
Sebold’s criminal record is extensive.
Cases were filed against him in May, September, October, and November 2019 and in January and March 2020.
The Marion County charges stem from Sebold being arrested twice on Aug. 29, 2019.
According to the probable cause affidavit in that case, Sebold and his pregnant girlfriend were first pulled over by an Arkansas State Police trooper.
Sebold was ticketed for driving on a suspended license and arrested on an active failure to appear warrant.
Sebold and his girlfriend went to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office and the girlfriend paid to bond him out on the charges.
The girlfriend was reported to have driven the red Ford pickup truck to the sheriff’s office and again when the pair left.
After traveling for some distance, Sebold took the driver’s seat. He was observed making the switch and picked up by Marion County deputies – again on a charge of driving with a suspended license.
During the second stop, the seriousness of the charges escalated, when he was found to be in possession of what was believed to be methamphetamine and a glass pipe used to smoke the drug.
Sebold was taken to jail. An ambulance was called for the girlfriend, after Sebold claimed she was having cramps and might be in danger of losing her baby.
He told deputies he was driving the vehicle without a valid license because he was trying to take the girlfriend to the hospital.
Sebold’s charges have included:
• possession of drugs and paraphernalia to ingest drugs;
• having a defaced firearm;
• theft by receiving;
• domestic battering;
• possession of a firearm by a felon;
• and theft of property.
According to court records, Sebold had no criminal cases opened against him until 2019.
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