A Boone County woman wearing tie-dye flip flops has been arrested for stealing a golf cart from a parking lot and driving it over five and half miles before being caught. Thirty-seven-year-old Clarissa Birdie-Lee Edmondson of Lead Hill was arrested Monday afternoon after apparently spending most of her drive along the U.S. Highway 62 Bypass.
According to the probable cause affidavit from the Mountain Home Police Department, an officer responded to the Sycamore Springs Senior Living community on Jerry Baker Lane near where the west end of the bypass meets Highway 62. The victim reported she had parked the golf cart in the parking lot and the keys were in it. She saw a female drive off in the golf cart headed towards Highway 62 about 20 minutes prior to the officer’s arrival.
The officer spoke to an employee who interacted with an unknown female earlier in the day who was wearing Capri pants and tie-dye flip flops.
The officer began patrolling the area searching for the golf cart and suspect.
The description given by the employee helped, because a short time later, a Baxter County Sheriff’s deputy spotted a woman matching that description operating a golf cart on Buzzard Roost Road, approximately 5.7 miles away, and made a traffic stop. Mountain Home police responded and took Edmondson into custody.
Edmondson is charged with a felony count of theft of property. Her bond is set at $13,000 on that charge. She also is being held on two non-payment of fines charges. Her total bail is $14,640.
PREVIOUS ARRESTS
Edmondson has two previous felony arrests in Arkansas.
In 2016 she was arrested in Baxter County after her vehicle left the roadway and struck a house. She was charged with DWI 4th offense, driving while license was suspended for DWI, careless and prohibited driving, leaving the scene of an accident with property damage and having no liability insurance.
Edmondson was charged in 2021 in Carroll County with aggravated assault upon a law enforcement officer or employee of a correctional facility. In that incident, she was going through the intake process at the jail and would comply with orders to remove her clothing and take a shower. After repeated orders, Edmondson began hitting two of the officers until they had to pepper spray her.