In late August 2021, Jennifer Lorene McCord was sentenced to four-years-probation on drug-related charges.
Since that time, five revocation petitions have been filed accusing McCord of violating the terms and conditions of her probation.
In the petitions, she has been charged with violations including being a felon in possession of a firearm, evading supervision, not reporting, not having a job, not living at her registered address and paying nothing on about $3,000 in fines.
The 40-year-old McCord appeared during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Monday. A hearing on the latest revocation is set for October 30.
In June, McCord was also reported to have walked off from a work detail operated by the Jumpstart Ministries addition treatment organization. She had been sent to Jumpstart in lieu of jail time.
The latest petition seeking the revocation of her petition was filed June 26. Two other petitions were filed in 2022 and one in 2021. The 2021 petition was filed just three months after she was originally sentenced on the drug charges filed against her.
The ultimate sanction for someone who has violated probation is to have it revoked and be sentenced to prison. A person can also be held in contempt and ordered to spend time in county jail.
McCord has been held in contempt of court on two occasions. She was first sentenced to 60 days in jail and then to 89 days in the county jail.
Instead of the 89 days in jail, she was sent to Jumpstart Ministries for addiction treatment. She is alleged to have walked off 12 days after entering the program.
After the latest petition was filed, McCord’s case went on inactive status until she was arrested and jailed on September 29. She currently has no bond set.
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