A Mountain Home man appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court last week, proclaimed himself a victim of false charges and said he did not need a lawyer.
Fifty-five-year-old Donald Ray Hall was arrested late last month after he is alleged to have falsely reported a female was trapped inside his storage unit along County Road 28.
When a sheriff’s deputy arrived, Hall said a person helping the unseen woman break into his unit shut the door and locked it, leaving her trapped inside.
According to the probable cause affidavit, the deputy could hear no movement in the unit, but the Mountain Home Fire Department was called and made entry.
While waiting on the fire department to arrive, Hall was reported to be acting as if he was talking to someone inside the unit.
In the “conversation,” Hall kept saying for the woman allegedly trapped in the unit to call the person with the keys to return to the scene and let her out.
When entry was made into the unit, there was no one inside and Hall was arrested initially on charges of filing a false report.
When an inventory of Hall’s vehicle was made, deputies located drug paraphernalia in a duffel bag and marijuana in a green plastic bottle.
A blue glass pipe was also found containing a white residue that field-tested positive for methamphetamine.
Based on what was discovered during the vehicle inventory, drug-related charges were added to the making a false report charge.
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