One of two people arrested after drugs and drug paraphernalia were located during a compliance visit to a home along Cranfield Road in early February last year appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court Monday (June 23).
Twenty-nine-year-old Molly Jean Dillard pled guilty to possessing a controlled substance and was given 10 years-probation.
The state dropped most of the charges that had been filed against her.
Forty-six-year-old John Dewayne Allen, who lists an address in Paragould, is the second person charged in the drug-related case. He entered a guilty plea to his charges during an earlier court session and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
A failure to appear warrant was issued when Dillard did not show up for a court session April 21. She was surrendered to the Baxter County Detention Center by the company that wrote her $20,000 bond, T-Gard Bail Bonds located in Cleburne County.
She has been in the detention center since being surrendered by the company on May 28.
Dillard listed an address in Paragould when arrested but told officers she had been living in Allen’s “lake house” on Cranfield Road for some time. In documents filed by her former attorney, it is noted that Dillard knew Allen because of a past romantic relationship between the two.
Dillard was also on probation at the time of her Baxter County arrest.
The focus of the compliance visit was Allen who was on parole at the time.
During the early February 2024 compliance visit, 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.”
Allen was reported to have had $1,100 in cash in his wallet. He has a fairly lengthy criminal history with numerous felony convictions – including charges of selling controlled substances.
Allen is alleged to have told officers searching the Cranfield Road residence that the drugs they found belonged to his 22-year-old son who had recently died.
He said he had brought the drugs from Paragould to his vacation home in Baxter County 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.” He is currently being held in the Greene County jail pending his appearance on charges in that county.
Dillard has also had charges filed against her in Greene County.
A revocation petition has been filed in one of Allen’s cases in Greene County. The petition alleges that he violated the terms and conditions of his probation when he was arrested and charged in Baxter County.
A revocation petition in one of Dillard’s previously closed criminal cases has been filed citing violations of the terms and conditions of her probation, including the new criminal case opened on her in Baxter County and the fact she had not obtained employment as directed.
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