Palmer sentenced on a number of felony charges

Thirty-four-year-old Gary Lee Palmer, Jr. pled guilty to charges in four new felony cases and revocations in three other cases during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Monday and was sentenced to six-years-probation with a judicial transfer to one of the Community Corrections Center in the state for addiction treatment.In the last 14 years, Palmer has had a total of 11 felony cases opened on him in Baxter and Marion Counties.

Palmer’s new cases were opened in April and May last year.

The charges in the new cases included multiple counts of breaking or entering, theft of property, criminal mischief and possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia.

Many of the charges against Palmer stem from break-ins at storage units.

His charges in both Baxter and Marion Counties have included possessing illegal drugs and items of paraphernalia used to ingest the drugs, selling drugs, residential burglary, commercial burglary, theft of property, possessing an instrument of crime, criminal mischief, bringing drugs into the Baxter County Detention Center, selling methamphetamine to a confidential informant and fleeing.

In court records, Palmer once listed almost $16,000 in fines he owed in Marion County, Mountain Home, Flippin and Bull Shoals.

A number of petitions to revoke suspended sentences have been filed against Palmer. The petitions allege a variety of violations of the terms and conditions of his sentences including testing positive for drugs, associating with others involved in criminal activity, leaving transitional housing without permission, not showing up for scheduled meetings and disappearing after being released from a treatment center in Conway.

In mid-September 2012, Palmer was reported to have admitted that he had stolen copper piping from a residence to sell because he needed money to pay a bail bond company for getting him out of jail in one of his cases.

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