Bethani Beyer
A Mountain Home woman was given six years in prison during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday.
Twenty-nine-year-old Bethani Beyer was arrested Dec. 22 last year when Mountain Home police, Baxter County sheriff’s deputies and officers from probation and parole went to her residence along East 13th Street as part of another investigation.
After arriving at the home, the lawmen first encountered 52-year-old James Seawell leaving the residence. He was an active probationer with a warrantless search waiver on file.
According to the probable cause affidavit, Seawell was found to have two plastic bags containing what he admitted was methamphetamine.
He was also carrying a pistol which is illegal for a convicted felon.
Seawell was taken into custody.
The officers were then let into the house where they encountered Beyer and 38-year-old Stephen Osborn.
Officers reported finding suspected methamphetamine, along with drug paraphernalia including digital scales and small plastic bags used to package and sell narcotics.
They also found a pistol and $560 in cash.
Beyer was charged with possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia used to ingest methamphetamine.
In addition, she was charged with being a felon in possession of a weapon and simultaneous possession of drugs and firearms.
The latter charge is a Class Y felony, the most serious classification of crime in Arkansas not punishable by death.
Prosecutors dropped the weapons charge.
Beyer has been free on $25,000 bond on her new drug charge.
After the new charges were brought against Beyer, a petition was filed to revoke her probation in a 2018 drug case.
According to the probable cause affidavit in the 2018 case, Beyer was pulled over for speeding and found to have methamphetamine in the vehicle, as well as a syringe and a pipe suspected of being used to smoke marijuana.
She was convicted and put on probation for 36 months in March of 2018. The state announced Thursday it was dismissing the revocation petition.
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