A man who has had criminal cases opened against him in three Arkansas counties appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court Monday on his newest charges.
Thirty-three-year-old Daniel Rhease Hoskins, who lists a home address in Paragould, is charged with bringing drugs into the Baxter County Detention Center, possessing methamphetamine and tampering with evidence.
ARREST RECORD
The latest Baxter County arrest for Hoskins came while he was being booked into the jail late last month.
As Hoskins was disrobing to change into a jail uniform, he is reported to have run to a toilet and attempted to flush a small plastic bag.
The toilet in the area was out of order and the flush failed.
According to the probable cause affidavit, Hoskins then grabbed the bag out of the toilet and stuck it in his mouth.
A jailer was able to retrieve the bag that was found to contain a white crystal substance field-testing positive for methamphetamine.
MULTI-COUNTY RECORD
On Jan. 31 last year, Hoskins was arrested by a Gassville police officer while standing beside a gas pump at Casey’s General Store.
The officer reported Hoskins tried to hide his face. Hoskins was identified through a check of the vehicle’s license plate.
He was found to have a number of felony convictions, an active extradition warrant and was listed as a parole absconder.
A search of Hoskins’ vehicle turned up a handgun and a substance field-testing positive for methamphetamine.
The simultaneous possession of drugs and firearms is a Class Y felony in Arkansas, the most serious classification of crime in the state not punishable by death.
In mid-July last year, Hoskins and three other inmates in the Baxter County Detention Center were charged with going into a cell and beating up another prisoner.
Hoskins faced charges of 3rd degree battery, engaging in violent criminal group activity and impairing the operation of a vital public facility in his new case.
The state dismissed those charges Mar. 29.
Charges in Baxter County have resulted in petitions to revoke sentences imposed in two cases in Greene County.
Those cases are now set for trial later this month in Greene County Circuit Court in Paragould, according to electronic court records.
According to court records, Hoskins has also had criminal cases opened against him in Craighead County.
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