A Mountain Home man facing drug-related charges appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court/Criminal Division Monday and entered a guilty plea to possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia.
Sixty-two-year-old Ross Rains was sentenced to five years in prison with a judicial transfer to one of the community correction facilities in the state for addiction treatment.
He was arrested September 18 last year when officers went to his residence along South Main Street. Rains and a female were reported to be living in the house.
The woman was listed as an absconder and Rains was on active parole supervision. The information passed along to law enforcement was that drugs were present in the house.
When officers entered the residence, they found the female fugitive in the hallway holding two bags and syringes in her hand.
Rains was found in a bedroom.
A search turned up a small quantity of methamphetamine and various items of paraphernalia used to ingest drugs.
Rains has been in court before. He had his probation revoked in a 2017 drug case and was sentenced to four years in prison.
In the 2017 case, Raines was pulled over for a minor traffic violation.
The situation grew more serious for him when a drug dog alerted on the driver’s side door of his vehicle.
A search led to the discovery of a substance field-testing positive for methamphetamine, along with marijuana and pipes to smoke both drugs.
A revocation petition was filed alleging Rains had violated the terms and conditions of his probation handed down in an earlier case.
It was charged Rains had not reported as required, changed his address without notifying his supervising probation officer and evading supervision by not providing a current address.
The petition also charged Rains with committing new criminal offenses while on probation, and being in possession of controlled substances and drug paraphernalia.
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