Amanda Coker (Photo courtesy of Marion County Sheriff’s Office)
A rural Yellville woman was booked into the Marion County Law Enforcement Center on Tuesday on multiple charges. Forty-four-year-old Amanda Coker is most recently accused of breaking into a residence, stealing firearms and selling them a local pawn shop.
According to the probable cause affidavit, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office received a burglary complaint at a residence south of Ralph on Lighthouse Lane on March 7. The owners claimed numerous items, including three firearms, had been stolen.
A Marion County investigator says he discovered three firearms had been pawned at a Mountain Home pawn shop. The male stated he was given the firearms by Coker to pawn and was told not to ask where they were from.
Three weeks later, Coker reportedly admitted in an interview she was asked by a fellow law enforcement center inmate to go to the residence, retrieve the guns and pawn them to bail the inmate out. The total value of stolen items is reportedly at $16,110.
Coker is also facing multiple drug charges from an incident at the end of January 2021. According to the affidavit, a Flippin police officer received a complaint from a landlord stating his previous tenant moved out of the residence on Girard Street and, during the process, moved someone else in without permission. One of the occupants was identified as Coker, who was on parole at the time with a search waiver on file. Officers reportedly found multiple items of drugs and paraphernalia in the residence.
Coker is facing felony counts of residential burglary, theft of property, possession of firearms by certain persons, possession of a Schedule I or II controlled substance (methamphetamine or cocaine) with the purpose to deliver and possession of drug paraphernalia and misdemeanor counts of possession of a Schedule IV or V controlled substance, possession of a Schedule VI controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. She is also being charged as a habitual offender. Her bond is set at $25,440.
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