A Mountain Home man appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court Monday and was sentenced to 11 years in prison on drug charges.
Thirty-six-year-old Corey Saylor pled guilty April 17, but his sentencing was continued until Monday.
Saylor, who was on parole at the time of his most recent arrest, returned to his residence May 11 last year to find law enforcement officers knocking at the door.
A member of the 14th Judicial District Drug Task Force and parole officers were at the home located along Bomber Blvd. to conduct a compliance check.
Both the residence and Saylor’s vehicle were searched.
DRUGS AND PARAPHERNALIA FOUND
According to the probable cause affidavit, a number of drugs and items of drug paraphernalia were located, including 14.7 grams of a white crystal like substance field-testing positive for methamphetamine.
The officers also reported finding 55 pills identified as Morphine Sulfate, 26 Hydromorphone-Hydrochloride pills and 3 pills that were identified as Oxycodone Hydrochloride.
An open bag of syringes was also found.
PAST DRUG CASES
Saylor has had a number of drug-related convictions, according to the probable cause affidavit in his most recent case.
In June and July 2018, Saylor was accused of making multiple drug sales to people working with law enforcement.
Confidential informants were used in two sales in June. Saylor was reported to have sold 12.1 grams of methamphetamine on June 28 and 14 grams on June 29.
Both transactions were made from his residence.
On July 11, 2018, a confidential informant bought 7 grams of methamphetamine from Saylor.
After the sales in June and July, Saylor’s home was searched and officers located a number of illicit items, including methamphetamine, Suboxone strips, marijuana, Narcan kits, and used syringes.
A Narcan kit is an FDA-approved, non-addictive treatment for known or suspected drug overdoses.
Saylor pled guilty to charges in the earlier cases and was sentenced to 96 months in prison. He was on parole from that sentence when arrested on the new drug charges.
The residence from which the drug sales were made is in close proximity to the Mountain Home High School campus.
Melbourne attorney Matthew Dellinger represented Saylor. He requested that Circuit Judge John Putman approve what is known as a “DOC” bond.
When a person is sentenced to prison he is generally kept in a local jail until bed space opens in the chronically overcrowded prison system.
The “DOC” bond allows the person to skip the stay in the local jail and to turn himself in when bed space opens in one of the prison units.
Judge Putman denied the request, saying that others before Saylor had taken advantage of the situation, did not show up when ordered to and had to be rounded up by law enforcement and often committed other crimes. “Those people ruined it for everyone,” Judge Putman said.
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