Kathleen Michelle Smith
A Gassville woman who said she was going out for a walk, but wound up in a stolen truck in Sevier County in Southern Arkansas was sentenced to eight years in prison last week.
Thirty-five-year-old Kathleen Michelle Smith appeared by video hookup between the McPherson Unit of the state prison system in Newport and Baxter County Circuit Court.
Smith is serving time in the unit on charges brought against her in Sevier County stemming from the same incident.
According to the probable cause affidavit, Smith left her father’s residence along Buford Cutoff about 1:30 a.m. July 6 last year.
She is first seen on a video surveillance camera about 3:30 a.m. entering a large passenger van and attempting to break into a Ford pickup.
A short while later, a 2019 Chevrolet pickup was stolen from a residence also located along Buford Cutoff.
The owner reported his Yamaha Banshee ATV was in the back of the truck.
The vehicle was tracked by GPS and located in Sevier County. Smith was arrested there.
Sevier County is in extreme southwest Arkansas about 290 miles from Gassville.
She had tried to ditch the vehicle, but returned to it when she discovered she had left her wallet and cellphone in the truck.
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