A Yellville man appeared during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court/Criminal Division August 25 and pled not guilty to charges in the eighth criminal case opened on him since 2007.
Forty-year-old David Kyle Simmons is charged with possessing drugs and drug paraphernalia.
Since 2007, Simmons has been charged with possessing drugs, selling drugs to a confidential informant, theft of property, fraudulent use of a credit card, theft by receiving and tampering with physical evidence.
PAST CASES
In mid-July last year, Simmons was accused of stealing a 2001 Chevrolet pickup from a resident along State Highway 5 North in the Midway area.
He is said to have had a female take catalytic converters removed from the stolen truck to a local scrap metal dealer.
Only one was purchased. The other converter was said to be broken and not salable.
Simmons was given six-years- probation in that case.
In another earlier case, Simmons was charged with removing jewelry and other property from the victim of a fatal automobile crash in mid-October 2018.
The victim of the crash was identified as Simmon’s girlfriend. According to the probable cause affidavit, the woman was returning to her residence in the Oakland area from a gathering she had attended in Yellville at the time of the crash.
She is alleged to have told people at the gathering she was apprehensive about returning home because she had been having problems with Simmons.
As she drove along State Highway 178, she and Simmons, who was in another vehicle, were talking and texting with one another.
Simmons was alleged to have gotten behind the victim’s SUV in the vicinity of Bull Shoals Dam.
At some point, the victim’s car left the roadway, struck and culvert, went airborne and turned over. The victim was ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene.
According to court records, Simmons allegedly pulled up to the scene but, instead of rendering aid or reporting the accident, he was accused of going to the wrecked SUV and removing some of the victim’s property, including her purse and cellphone.
He is also alleged to have removed a ring the dead woman was wearing at the time of the accident.
Simmons was reported to have left the scene with the victim’s property. Investigators said a member of the victim’s family pressured Simmons to the point he returned the purse and the ring taken from her body.
According to the probable cause affidavit, “when Simmons entered the accident scene, it was not for the purpose of rendering aid, it was to remove evidence that might connect him to the accident or some other crime, and to take her property.”
Simmons pled no contest to the charges against him and was sentenced to six years-probation.
REVOCATION AFTER REVOCATION
Simmons’ record shows he often committed new offenses before serving out probation sentences.
The new charges would trigger petitions to revoke his probation in the earlier cases.
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