A man who has listed addresses in Northwest Arkansas and now shows to be living in this area appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court/Criminal Division November 3.
Twenty-seven-year-old Matthew H. Moore pled not guilty to his charges. He was booked into the Baxter County Detention Center in September on charges of violating parole, and with possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia.
The arrest came when probation/parole officer went to an address along County Road 310 to do a parole plan home visit and reported finding what was suspected to be methamphetamine in several plastic bags.
In addition, a glass smoking device containing methamphetamine residue was found.
When Moore was asked what he intended to do with the rather substantial quantity of meth, he said he had just purchased it that day and was planning to sell it to earn extra cash.
A field-test showed the material in all of the bags to be methamphetamine.
It is also noted that his record would allow him to be charged as a habitual offender which could lengthen any sentence he might receive.
Moore’s bond was reduced from $15,000 to $10,000 during Monday’s session.
Court records show Moore has been charged with crimes in Baxter, Benton and Washington Counties.
In Baxter County, he was accused of breaking into 12 vehicles on an apartment complex parking lot and stealing personal property left inside.
In the early morning hours of August 7, 2020, Mountain Home police officers were called to the apartments to investigate multiple vehicle break-ins.
The officers determined that surveillance cameras on the property had caught a suspect driving into the complex in a white Jeep Cherokee that was missing the front bumper.
After the vehicle parked, a white male got out and began to go through vehicles. Moore was identified as the person on the video.
When he was interviewed, Moore was reported to have admitted to breaking into the vehicles.
In October 2021, he pled guilty to 12 counts of breaking or entering and four counts of theft of property and was sentenced to six years in prison.
Moore was also found to have been charged with breaking into multiple vehicles in Bentonville in mid-March 2020. According to the probable cause affidavit in that case, officers found items of personal property “had been thrown around inside” the vehicles.
A victim reported to police her debit card had been taken and used three times in Bentonville and once in Rogers.
Investigators found there were three people involved in the break-ins. Moore was reported to have been accompanied by another male and a female. The trio is alleged to have made a number of stops where they used a debit/credit card tied to the break-in to make purchases.
The suspects were said to have made an eclectic list of purchases including fast food, antifreeze, a plush Easter toy, Flex Steel, chewy candy, a battery pack, ear buds, Flex Glue, Dingdongs, coconut milk, brake fluid, Tide pods, four packages of Marlboro cigarettes and gasoline. They were unsuccessful in an attempt to purchase lottery tickets.
After one of the males was identified and arrested, Moore and the female were picked up.
The charges against Moore and his two accomplices included breaking or entering and theft by receiving.
Moore was also charged in Washington County with assaulting his mother in mid-September 2020 and with forging a check in mid-July.
According to electronic court records, Moore was put on 48 months-probation in the Washington County cases.
He also pled guilty to the vehicle break-ins in Bentonville and was put on probation for five years.
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