A Mountain Home area woman who has had felony charges brought against her since 2014 appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court June 23.
In the newest case opened on 46-year-old Kathleen E. Brown, a.k.a. Kathleen Kelley and Kathleen Pieri, the charges include theft of property, fleeing in a vehicle and on foot.
She pled not guilty.
According to the probable cause affidavit, Brown is alleged to have found a lost credit card while shopping in a local business on May 30. The victim in the case said she had apparently dropped the card while moving about the store.
When video tapes from surveillance cameras in the store were reviewed, staff reported seeing an unidentified woman pick up the card and conceal it on her person.
According to the probable cause affidavit, the woman, later identified as Brown, initially denied taking the card but after being confronted by store management admitted taking the card and hiding it in a gum package near one of the checkout stands.
The card was recovered in the location Brown described.
Before Mountain Home police arrived on scene, Brown had left the store and fled in a white pickup truck.
The vehicle was stopped on May 30 by a Baxter County sheriff’s deputy for a minor traffic violation. The truck was reported to have accelerated to a high rate of speed while traveling on Cannie Baker Road. The deputy reported going 50-miles-per-hour in a 35-mile-an-hour zone and being unable to catch the truck.
The deputy reported seeing the truck parked in the driveway of a residence along Campfire Lane. He said the vehicle was still running and a passenger, identified as Fifty-two-year-old Doyle George, was still in the truck. Brown had fled.
After a time, George admitted that Brown had been the driver and pointed out which direction she had taken when fleeing the scene.
A canine was used to track Brown and she was located behind a residence.
Officers found drug paraphernalia in the truck and three small plastic bags containing a substance believed to be methamphetamine and another bag holding a small amount of marijuana in Brown’s hiding place.
Brown is reported to have claimed ownership of the items found in the truck but denied that the bags of suspected methamphetamine found scattered around her hiding place belonged to her.
George was released from the scene and Brown was taken to the Baxter County Detention Center. Her bond is set at $10,000.
She remains an inmate.
Brown has had charges brought against her in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2025. The charges against her have been mainly drug-related, but she had also been charged with theft of property, forgery and theft by receiving.
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