Two Mountain Home residents were arrested on drug charges Friday afternoon after a probation home compliance check by the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office and Mountain Home Police Department. According to Sheriff John Montgomery, 32-year-old Tiffany Cortez-Lynn and 31-year-old Zachary Bales were taken to the Baxter County Detention Center from their residence on Voorheis Drive and booked on a felony count of possession of methamphetamine with purpose to deliver and two felony counts of possession of drug paraphernalia. Bond was set at $25,000 for each suspect. Bales posted bond and was released, but Cortez-Lynn remains in custody with a no-bond probation hold.
A search waiver is on file for Cortez-Lynn as a probationer. When officers conducted a search of the residence and an outbuilding, they allegedly found a small amount of methamphetamine, various articles of drug paraphernalia including syringes, pipes and scales and $827 in cash.
Sheriff Montgomery reports Cortez-Lynn has been booked into the Baxter County Detention Center eight times since 2006. Bales has four bookings since 2017.
Bales and Cortez-Lynn are scheduled to appear Thursday in Baxter County Circuit Court.
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