Philip Launius

1 week ago | ktlo.com | Philip Launius

Justin Spires (Photo courtesy of Baxter County Sheriff’s Office)A man who turned what should have been a traffic stop on minor offenses into a high-speed chase during which he tried to ram the vehicles of pursuing sheriff’s deputies appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court April 7 to face the revocation of his probation initially handed down in the chase case.

1 week ago | ktlo.com | Philip Launius

A Mountain Home man alleged to have pointed a handgun at his mother and other family members during a domestic altercation appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court Monday. Twenty-two-year-old Wayne Randall Kindstrom, Jr., pled guilty to reduced charges and was put on probation for four years. There were a number of circumstances that went into the decision, including that Kindstrom has completed a 14-month rehab program operated by Messiah Ministries in Pocahontas.

3 weeks ago | ktlo.com | Philip Launius

The case of a man who attacked his stepfather because he claimed the older man was involved in “organized crime” was dropped by the state during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court on March 17. Thirty-five-year-old Randal Lynn Billingsley had been charged with 2nd degree battery. The dismissal came at the request of the family, according to Prosecutor David Ethredge.

3 weeks ago | ktlo.com | Philip Launius

The case of a Missouri man accused of taking money from a 73-year-old woman to purchase and erect an aluminum carport at her residence but purchasing nothing and doing no work was dismissed during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court on March 17. Prosecutors were able to work out a solution where the victim who lives in Mountain Home would recover all of the money she lost.

3 weeks ago | ktlo.com | Philip Launius

A woman charged with fighting with police and threatening to kill one officer appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court on March 17. The charge against 33-year-old Jessa James was reduced to misdemeanor. She pled guilty and was put on unsupervised probation for 12 months. She was arrested June 1 last year when Mountain Home Police officers responded to a unit in the Meadow Springs Apartment complex to conduct a welfare check on James.