A 26-year-old Mountain Home man who was charged with stealing a truck in late 2025 pled guilty to a similar crime in Baxter County Circuit Court/Criminal Division on March 2 and was put on probation for three years.
In his first case, Kole Edward Brahm, who lists an address along Meadowbrook Drive, pled guilty to a reduced charge of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and was sentenced to 90 days in the county jail.
He had originally been charged with theft of property.
NEW CHARGE
The second vehicle that Brahm is alleged to have stolen was taken December 28 last year. He is accused of being at a Mountain Home business when he got into a 2010 two-toned Dodge Ram pickup and drove away.
As he was leaving, he asked a witness if he had a key to a gate that would allow him to leave the premises. When the witness asked Brahm what he was doing, he said the vehicle belonged to a friend and that there was no problem with him using it.
According to the probable cause affidavit, the most recent theft involved a vehicle belonging to one of Brahm’s relatives.
Video was provided to police by the business owner showing Brahm first walking around in the area, then getting into and driving the truck leaving by way of Commerce Drive.
The vehicle was shown on other surveillance cameras heading east toward Walmart. Brahm was arrested in the Norfork area. When the probable cause affidavit was written on December 30, the vehicle, valued at $18,000, had not been recovered.
Brahm denied that he had taken the truck.
ORIGINAL CHARGE
Brahm is reported to have shown up on the doorstep of his former guardian at about 3:30 a.m. October 1 last year and asked if he could stay there.
The former guardian told Brahm to leave and not come back. He is reported to have been Brahm’s guardian when Brahm was a juvenile but had lost contact with him.
Later in the morning, the man’s roommate went outside and found Brahm asleep in the truck he had driven to the residence.
Brahm was again asked to leave the property and did so on foot.
It was determined that the truck Brahm had been driving had been reported stolen from an address on South Main Street sometime between 11:30 p.m. September 30 and 4:30 a.m. the next day.
The owner said he had left the keys in the vehicle and did now know who might have taken it.
The former guardian had reported the truck being in his yard to police and the owner was advised of its location.
In a separate incident, Brahm was reported to have taken sparkplugs from a motorcycle that was parked at the Dels on Main Street.
Witnesses had seen him removing parts from the motorcycle. According to the probable cause affidavit, Brahm was confronted, jumped a fence at a nearby business and disappeared.
When he was arrested related to the stolen truck, officers reported finding sparkplugs in his pocket, along with one of the keys to the truck.
When Brahm was questioned at the Mountain Home Police Department, he was reported to have admitted to being in the truck but asked for a lawyer when the discussion turned to him taking the vehicle.
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