A Gassville woman facing charges stemming from a series of bizarre incidents, including coming into a person’s house uninvited and attempting to enter other residences and walking her dog while only partially dressed entered a guilty plea to charges against her during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court/Criminal Division November 17.
Thirty-eight-year-old April Dawn Gessner is charged with residential burglary, disorderly conduct, two counts of attempted residential burglary, possession of drug paraphernalia and criminal mischief.
After entering her guilty plea, Gessner was sentenced to four years-probation.
According to court records, Gessner has listed a number of other names during the years, including April D. Ray, April D. Miller, April D Rasmussen and April D. Altenbaumer.
In addition, Gessner listed Gassville as her place of residence on documents from her initial arrest and Lakeview on her latest booking.
On December 12 last year, Gessner was reported to have entered a man’s house along County Road 9 in the Gassville area uninvited and while he was taking a shower.
The man was reported to have backed Gessner out of his residence at gun point. The victim then called law enforcement with a description of the intruder.
A Baxter County sheriff’s deputy responded to the report and began to search for a person matching the description given by the original caller.
He reported finding a blue Honda Civic parked across the street from the original caller’s residence. When the car’s license plate was run, it showed the vehicle belonged to April Miller/AKA April Gessner.
After checking further, the deputy located a partially clothed female walking her dog along Marler Lane. When the deputy stopped and asked the woman, later identified as Gessner, several questions, he reported not getting very clear answers. He said when asked what she was doing in the area, she replied, “I don’t know.”
After Gessner had been taken into custody and put in a patrol car, another victim reported that his daughter-in-law had said someone had just tried to break into her home.
When the deputy responded to check out the second report, a neighbor came and said that a woman had tried to enter her house as well.
The deputy went back to the residence where the original caller lived and he confirmed that Gessner was the person who had come into the house.
As the deputy was enroute to the county jail where Gessner was to be booked, she is reported to have been “rambling about people being murdered and talking to herself using the third person.”
According to the probable cause affidavit, Gessner had begun screaming during the trip to jail when she caught sight of her pants and shoes in the road and asked the deputy to stop so she could retrieve her property.
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