April Gessner (Photo courtesy of Baxter County Sheriff’s Office)
A woman released from jail on a $10,000 bond April 24 was rearrested the next day on charges of public intoxication and disorderly conduct.
Thirty-eight-year-old April Dawn Gessner, who listed her address as Gassville on jail records, was initially charged after a series of bizarre actions including coming into a person’s house uninvited and walking her dog while only partially dressed.
She appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court April 21 when it was announced a hearing in her original case was set for June 23.
Records show that Gessner’s bond on her latest charges is set at $560. The fee on her $10,000 bond was shown as being paid by a person in Lakeview, according to a certificate of compliance filed by First Arkansas Bail Bonds, Inc.
In her older case, Gessner’s defense attorney had announced that a mental evaluation would be requested for her. The order for that examination was signed by Circuit Judge John Putman April 21.
Gessner was initially booked into the Baxter County Detention Center on charges including residential burglary, disorderly conduct, two counts of attempted residential burglary, possession of drug paraphernalia and criminal mischief
According to court records, Gessner has listed a number of other names during the years, including April D. Ray, April D. Miller, April D. Rasmussen and April D. Altenbaumer.
In addition, Gessner listed Gassville as her place of residence on documents from her initial arrest.
Gessner’s initial arrest came after she was reported to have entered a man’s house along County Road 9 in the Gassville area uninvited and while he was taking a shower.
The man was reported to have backed Gessner out of his residence at gun point. The victim then called law enforcement with a description of the intruder.
A Baxter County sheriff’s deputy responded to the report and began to search for a person matching the description given by the original caller.
He reported finding a blue Honda Civic parked across the street from the original caller’s residence. When the car’s license plate was run, it showed the vehicle belonged to April Miller/AKA April Gessner.
After checking further, the deputy located a female walking her dog along Marler Lane. When the deputy stopped and asked the woman, later identified as Gessner, several questions, he reported not getting very clear answers. He said when asked what she was doing in the area, she replied, “I don’t know.”
After Gessner had been taken into custody and put into a patrol car, another victim reported that his daughter-in-law had said someone had just tried to break into her home.
When the deputy responded to check out the second report, a neighbor arrived on the scene and said that a woman had tried to enter her house as well.
The deputy went back to the residence where the original caller lived, and he confirmed that Gessner was the person who had come into the house.
As the deputy was enroute to the county jail where Gessner was to be booked, she is reported to have been “rambling about people being murdered and taking to herself using the third person.”
According to the probable cause affidavit, Gessner had begun screaming during the trip to jail when she caught sight of her pants and shoes in the road and asked the deputy to stop so she could retrieve her property.
She is reported to have told the deputy she had shed her pants and shoes “because she was hot.”
According to the probable cause affidavit, the deputy found a glass smoking pipe in Gessner’s pants containing suspected marijuana residue.
The deputy said Gessner continued to show signs of being under the influence of narcotics during the trip to the jail.
It is alleged that Gessner placed her backside against the “cage” that separates the back and front seats of the patrol car and began to jump up and down.
As the gyrations continued in the back seat, the deputy’s two-way radio stopped working. After dropping Gessner off at the jail, the deputy determined the wire to the antenna had been unplugged sometime during the trip to the jail.
The charges stemming from her latest arrest appear to be misdemeanors.
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