Kathleen Pieri-Brown (Photo courtesy of Baxter County Sheriff’s Office)
A Mountain Home woman, Kathleen Kelley Pieri-Brown entered a guilty plea to some drug-related charges against her and no contest to others during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court.
The 41-year-old Brown was sentenced to six years in prison.
She was last booked into the Baxter County Detention Center on March 21 on an outstanding warrant. According to the probable cause affidavit, a jail staff member found drugs in Pieri-Brown’s personal property.
The substances tested positive for both methamphetamine and Fentanyl.
She was charged with possession of a controlled substance and with having those substances in the county jail.
On Thursday, she pled no contest to those charges.
On Nov. 17 last year, Pieri-Brown was charged with possessing drug paraphernalia.
According to the probable cause affidavit officers went to her home located along Timberlane Road to conduct a compliance visit. Pieri-Brown was on parole at the time.
A cooperative Pieri-Brown handed one of the officers two sets of digital scales, explaining they were for weighing methamphetamine.
She then turned over two glass smoking pipes, saying one was used for methamphetamine and one marijuana.
On Thursday, she pled guilty to those charges.
In 2017, Pieri-Brown was arrested after selling drugs on three occasions in March to a person working with law enforcement.
The sales were made on Mar. 13, 16 and 22. According to the probable cause affidavit in that case, methamphetamine was involved in each of the sales.
In 2019, information was received that Pieri-Brown was selling drugs again. She was on parole at the time from the 2017 drug conviction.
A Baxter County deputy sheriff and an officer from probation and parole went to Pieri-Brown’s residence along Timberlane Road to conduct a compliance visit.
A mirror was found in her bedroom with residue field-testing positive for methamphetamine.
In addition, the officers found 13 Clonazepam pills and a pipe used to smoke marijuana near Pieri-Brown’s bed.
According to court records, she pled no contest to the charges against her and was put on probation for 72 months.
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