Gregory Mayfield (Photo courtesy of Baxter County Sheriff’s Office)
A man who is no stranger to local law enforcement was back in Baxter County Circuit Court Monday.
Twenty-five-year-old Gregory Mayfield pled guilty to charges in the single open criminal case filed against him.
Mayfield was arrested Oct. 15 last year and booked on charges including breaking or entering, theft of property, theft by receiving, resisting arrest, theft by receiving, disorderly conduct and violating parole.
He pled guilty to charges of theft of property and breaking or entering.
The charges were based on an incident that occurred in the early morning hours of Aug. 5 last year. Mountain Home police officers were called to an address along West Wade Street regarding the theft of a vehicle.
The victim said he had just returned from a weekend away and was unloading his vehicle. He told the officers he went inside with a number of items.
He said when he came back outside, he saw his vehicle in a ditch across the street.
A neighbor had come to investigate a “commotion.” He reported confronting a person, later identified as Mayfield. The neighbor, thinking Mayfield was a victim of the accident, asked if he needed help.
Mayfield declined the offer and said he intended to notify his insurance carrier.
When the neighbor went inside to telephone police, Mayfield fled.
The owner of the vehicle found a cellphone inside the car. It was positively identified as belonging to Mayfield.
While searching the area for Mayfield, officers found a wallet in the middle of the road belonging to someone living along Nelson Street.
The owner of the wallet said he had left it in his unlocked vehicle, and it was now missing.
According to the probable cause affidavit, officers then found a motorized minibike in the wood line along Sunshine and Cross Streets.
The owner reported the minibike missing later on Aug. 5. The affidavit does not specifically tie Mayfield to the minibike theft.
Mayfield had several open criminal cases filed against him in the 2017-2019 period.
The charges in the four cases included multiple counts of breaking or entering and theft of property. He has been accused of stealing firearms, a hunting bow, attempting to steal the jacket out of a vehicle owned by an off-duty policeman and of using $900 in counterfeit money to buy a cellphone.
Mayfield’s criminal charges have often stemmed from vehicle break-ins.
In one of his earlier cases, the court allowed Mayfield to enter a one-year addiction treatment program, but he failed to successfully complete the course of treatment.
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