Mountain Home

Sentencing in August for a woman from Mountain Home, after confessing to robbing and killing a man in Douglas County. Twenty-nine-year-old Aimee Herring admitted she shot and stabbed Philip Taylor to death last September; his body was dumped on a road near Ava. Another woman, April Quick, is also charged in Taylor's murder.  Her trial is set to begin on December 12.  Taylor and Quick had three children together

Baxter County, AR - At approximately 5:18 pm Tuesday, Deputies from the Baxter County Sheriff's Office responded to a 911 call of two people who had fallen off a bluff near the Bidwell Point Park on Lake Norfork.  Bidwell Park is located just north of the Hwy 101 Bridge. First responders from the Gamaliel Fire Department along with ambulance personnel from Baxter Regional Medical Center responded to the scene. Due to the severe injuries to the two subjects and to the remote location, both subjects were transported by the Gamaliel Fire Department Rescue Boat to a nearby location.  Two helicopters from Air Evac Lifeteam responded and airlifted the two subjects to Mercy Hospital (Saint Johns)

MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. -- A 3-year boy is recovering from severe trauma and bite wounds around his face and head after the family's pit bull attacked him around 9 a.m. Thursday.  The  Baxter County Sheriff's Department says the hospital in Mountain Home contacted it to report a child had been brought to the Emergency Room by private vehicle.  Investigators say the boy's mother, Amber Moody, told them her son, Ryland Moody, was attacked and bitten...

BAXTER COUNTY, Ark -- The Baxter County sheriff credits the quick thinking of two of his officers in preventing a Mountain Home woman from jumping off a bridge around midnight. According to the sheriff, deputy William Altazan and Corporal Scott Thrasher were  east of Mountain Home when they saw a vehicle traveling toward Henderson. Deputy Altazan had stopped the vehicle earlier on the 62 East Henderson bridge.  Altazan stated the woman in the car was making statements that made him concerned for her safety; however, the woman assured him she was fine and was going to her home in Northern Hills.

MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. -- An employee of a company in Mountain Home is accused of using a counterfeit $100 bill to pay for company supplies on March 25.  Investigators say Bradley Stowers also made a company check payable to himself instead of to the business for which the check was intended.  Baxter County Sheriff John Montgomery says the investigation started on March 25 when someone at Guy King and Sons got a $100 bill that was missing the magnetic...

MOUNTAIN HOME, Ar. -- A Baxter County Jail Inmate has been charged with a felony crime after biting a Jailer on the arm Tuesday afternoon during a scuffle.  Inmate Bradley Travis Edmonston was outside in the recreation yard.  He became upset when Jailers began conducting a search of his housing cell and began to cause a disturbance. Jailers responded to the recreation yard and ordered Edmonston to come back inside to lock down.  He refused to comply.  Three Jailers eventually took hold of Edmonston to escort him back inside.  A struggle ensued at this time, and Edmonston bit Jailer Jamie Binnion on his left forearm causing injury to him.  Jailers then used pepper spray to subdue the inmate.

MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. -- David Smith, 53, of Salesville pleaded not guilty for a brutal murder that took place on New Year's Eve. Smith is accused of using a claw hammer and a knife to murder his girlfriend, Lisa Smith, on Dec. 31.  Her body was found in his house, while police found David hiding in a neighbor's lawn.  Investigators said the Smiths were not related, even though they had the same last name. The Baxter County prosecuting attorney says Smith was assigned a public defender during his court appearance on Thursday.

MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. -- The Baxter County, Arkansas sheriff is warning people of a scam involving the Publisher's Clearinghouse sweepstakes.  Three complaints have been filed with the sheriff's office.  Each time, the caller told the person on the other end that they had won a quarter million dollars and would need to go to a local Wal-Mart to pay a processing fee of up to 550 dollars in cash.  Investigators believe the calls are coming from Jamaica.  If...

MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. -- Baxter County Sheriff John Montgomery says two people are charged with smuggling items into the detention center, including marijuana, tobacco, K2 and candy bars. Investigators say Michael Behrens, 20, and Elizabeth Wilkins, 39, were placing containers with the items in a hole in a window at one of the housing units for inmates to find.  After a tip from one of the prisoners, the pair were arrested on Wednesday when Montgomery says they were dropping off a package at the site.

MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. -- The Baxter County Sheriff's Department arrested a man for the shooting death of another man last month.  Johnnie Baker, 47, faces a murder charge for the death of Dennis Chapman, 65.  Both men lived in the Salesville area. The shooting happened in Norfork on Nov. 12.  Chapman was shot in the face.  Investigators say Baker first told them the shooting was accidental, claiming the gun discharged on its own.  Investigators later determined the rifle that Baker used in the shooting could only be manually manipulated in order for it to fire.

MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. -- Jury selection begins Tuesday for a Mountain Home man, accused of killing his stepfather in 2006. Forty-one-year-old Gary Wayne Parks is charged with killing urologist Dr. David Millstein. Millstein was found stabbed to death in his home near Twin Lakes Golf Course in 2006.  Police say parks moved to memphis after Dr. Millstein's death and was arrested in 2009.

MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. -- Authorities in Baxter County have settled a lawsuit filed by a former prisoner who claimed jailers stood by as he was assaulted in the county jail. Howard Johnson of Mountain Home filed the suit in January 2010 against Sheriff John Montgomery and the jail's administrator. The suit claims that jailers--referred to as 'John Does' in the lawsuit--failed to protect Johnson as another inmate attacked him, breaking his jaw. Johnson initially sought $250,000 in punitive damages but agreed to a $20,000 settlement.

MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark.-- Baxter County authorities say a man has been found dead near Mountain Home. Gregory Almond, 39, was found Friday morning at Peal's Resort in Salesville. Police say he was last seen alive around 4:00p.m. on Thursday. A cause of death has not yet been determined.

MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. -- The body of a three-month-old boy from Baxter County, Arkansas has been sent the state crime lab for an autopsy.  The sheriff says Trakker Seats' mother called 911 early yesterday morning when she discovered he wasn't breathing.  The baby was later pronounced dead at the hospital.

MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. --  It's a combination of increased jail costs and population versus a decrease in tax revenue.  It's the "perfect storm," according to Baxter County Sheriff John Montgomery. Montgomery is looking to the voters and a proposed tax increase that would improve the department.  At the root of the issue, the Baxter County Jail is flirting with capacity and, thanks to increased costs of food and medicine among other things, the sheriff's department has already used two-thirds of 2012's budget to pay for 2011's shortfall.

MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark.-- Earlier this week an experimental plane crashed into a supermarket in Florida. Reports now say the passenger on board was Thomas Rhoades from Mountain Home, Arkansas. TheVolusia County Sheriff's Officesays the plane crashed through the roof and into the supermarket's meat department. Three people inside the store were injured.  The pilot and Mr. Rhoades also suffered injuries. The cause of the crash is under investigation.

MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. -- A 3-year boy is recovering from severe trauma and bite wounds around his face and head after the family's pit bull attacked him around 9 a.m. Thursday.  The  Baxter County Sheriff's Department says the hospital in Mountain Home contacted it to report a child had been brought to the Emergency Room by private vehicle.  Investigators say the boy's mother, Amber Moody, told them her son, Ryland Moody, was attacked and bitten...

MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. -- Baxter County sheriff's deputies arrested a man for a beating at a park north of Mountain Home on New Year's Day.  A felony battery charge is filed against Adam Mudgett, 27, of Cotter, who is accused of beating a 71-year-old man from Mountain Home and leaving him at Pigeon Creek Park on Jan. 1. The man had injuries to his head in the incident, which took place in the evening.  Investigators questioned him but he was unable...

MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. -- A man from Mountain Home is in the Baxter County jail after he was arrested for allegedly breaking into the home of a victim in a deadly motorcycle accident. Authorities took Eric Guynes, 35, into custody after the family of the victim discovered items to be missing from his home.  Guynes is charged with burglary and property theft.

MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. -- Walking down the middle of the road cost a man from Mountain Home his life.  State police say Nikkolas Renault, 24, was hit by a van on Arkansas 201 south of Mountain Home.  The van's driver said he saw Renault too late and couldn't stop in time.