A large cache of drugs and drug paraphernalia was located during a compliance visit to a parolee’s home located along Cranfield Road on February 8. Forty-five-year-old John Dewayne Allen, Sr., who lists an address in Paragould, was arrested and jailed following the discovery.
A plea of not guilty was entered for Allen by his attorney, King Benson of Paragould, during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Monday.
Allen is an inmate in the Baxter County Detention Center with bond set at $75,000.
Officers reported finding more than a dozen types of controlled substances in the residence, including:
– Eight glass jars of marijuana
– Almost seventy grams of methamphetamine
– A plastic bag containing a small amount of Fentynal
– Almost 12 grams of ecstasy
– Psilocybin mushrooms
– Eighty grams of hashish
– Nineteen suboxone strips
– Hydrocodone pills
– Oxycodone pills
– Alprazolam pills
– Clonazepam pills
– Amphetamine/dextroamphetamine pills
According to the probable cause affidavit, there were several pills that were not identifiable because the numbers had been worn off and some appeared to be “homemade.”
He was reported to have had $1,100 in cash in his wallet.
Allen has a lengthy criminal history with numerous felony convictions – including charges of selling controlled substances.
Allen is alleged to have told officers the drugs belonged to his 22-year-old son who died in early January.
He said the residence where he was staying was his “lake house” and he had brought the drugs from Paragould to dispose of them but had not “gotten around to it yet.”
Allen told an officer he would “never sell drugs.”
In Greene County, Allen has been charged with possessing cocaine, heroin, Fentynal and “marijuana edibles.”
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