A man charged with selling methamphetamine to a person working with law enforcement appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court Monday.
Thirty-seven-year-old David Kyle Simmons pled guilty to his charges and was given six years probation.
In his newest case, Simmons, who lists an address along County Road 16, is charged with selling 6.4 grams of methamphetamine to a confidential informant for $275.
According to documents in the case, the alleged drug sale was made in December 2020, the probable cause affidavit was not filed until late June last year and the case is listed as formally being set up this year.
Simmons was already on probation on charges from earlier cases when the new one was opened.
Initially, the new charges triggered revocation petitions in two old cases, but the petitions were dismissed by the state.
In one of the older case, Simmons was given probation after pleading guilty to charges related to allegations he removed jewelry and other property belonging to the victim of a fatal automobile crash in mid-October 2018.
The victim in the crash was identified as Simmons’ girlfriend. According to the probable cause affidavit, the woman was returning to her residence in the Oakland area from a gathering she had attended in Yellville when she was killed in the one-vehicle accident.
She is alleged to have told people at the gathering she was apprehensive about returning home because she had been having problems with Simmons.
As she drove along State Highway 178, she and Simmons, who was in another vehicle, were reported to have been talking and texting with one another. Simmons was alleged to have gotten behind the victim’s SUV in the vicinity of Bull Shoals Dam.
At some point, the victim’s car left the roadway, struck a culvert, went airborne and turned over. The woman, who was ejected from the vehicle, was pronounced dead at the scene.
According to court records, Simmons allegedly pulled up to the accident scene, but, instead of rendering aid or reporting the accident, he is accused of going to the wrecked SUV and removing some of the victim’s property, including her purse and cellphone. He is also alleged to have taken a ring the dead woman was wearing at the time of the accident.
Simmons is reported to have left the scene with the victim’s property. Investigators said a member of the victim’s family pressured Simmons to the point he returned the victim’s purse and the ring he had taken from her body.
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