On May 16, a man pled guilty to drug charges in Baxter County Circuit Court and was put on probation for six years.
On June 2, thirty-seven year-old David Kyle Simmons was booked back into the Baxter County Detention Center on new drug charges.
On June 27, Simmons appeared in court and pled not guilty to the charges in his new case as well as to those contained in revocation petitions filed in three older cases.
When someone is put on probation, they are required to stay out of trouble and abide by other terms and conditions. If new charges are filed, it triggers petitions to be filed to revoke suspended sentences handed down in earlier cases.
Court records show Simmons has had a problem abiding by the rules, and is now at risk of having his probation revoked which could mean he will be facing prison time.
CONCERN EXPRESSED OVER RESIDENCE
In the most recent arrest, a Gassville police officer went to an address along Bayless Court in response to a number of calls from the public expressing concern about Simmons’ living at that address.
He was said to have shown up there after he was released from the Baxter County Detention Center May 17.
The officer made contact with Simmons who was working on a vehicle.
When the officer went inside the residence, Simmons is reported to have “tried to block” him from entering the bedroom Simmons and a female described as his girlfriend share.
Inside the bedroom, the officer located a rolled up blanket in which methamphetamine and a methamphetamine-smoking pipe were hidden.
At that point, Simmons was arrested and taken back to jail.
According to electronic jail records, he was released on a bond of more than $23,000.
MID-MAY PLEA
The plea on charges of selling methamphetamine to a person working with law enforcement was taken May 16.
According to the probable cause affidavit, Simmons, who then listed an address along County Road 16, sold 6.4 grams of methamphetamine to a confidential informant for $275.
The alleged drug sale was made in December 2020, the probable cause affidavit was not filed until late June last year and the case is listed as formally being set up this year.
Simmons was already on probation on charges from earlier cases when the drug sale case was opened.
The newest drug-related charge triggered the filing of petitions to revoke Simmons’ probation in three older cases.
Hearings on the revocation petitions are now scheduled for July 25.
TOOK DEAD WOMAN’S JEWLERY
In one of his older cases, Simmons was given probation after pleading guilty to charges related to allegations he removed jewelry and other property belonging to the victim of a fatal automobile crash in mid-October 2018.
The victim in the crash was identified as Simmons’ then girlfriend. According to the probable cause affidavit, the woman was returning to her residence in the Oakland area from a gathering she had attended in Yellville when she was killed in the one-vehicle accident.
She is alleged to have told people at the gathering she was apprehensive about returning home because she had been having problems with Simmons.
As she drove along State Highway 178, she and Simmons, who was in another vehicle, were reported to have been talking and texting with one another. Simmons was alleged to have gotten behind the victim’s SUV in the vicinity of Bull Shoals Dam.
At some point, the victim’s car left the roadway, struck a culvert, went airborne and turned over. The woman, who was ejected from the vehicle, was pronounced dead at the scene.
According to court records, Simmons allegedly pulled up to the wreck and removed some of the victim’s property, including her purse and cellphone.
He is also alleged to have taken a ring the dead woman was wearing at the time of the accident.
In the probable cause affidavit, Simmons is alleged to have stopped at the scene of the wreck, “not with the purpose of rendering aid, but to remove evidence that might connect him to the accident or some other crime and to take her property.”
Simmons is reported to have left the scene with the victim’s property. Investigators said a member of the victim’s family pressured Simmons to the point he returned the victim’s purse and the ring he had taken from her body.
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