A 26-year-old female fugitive was jailed Tuesday after being on the run for slightly more than three months.
When Raven Fayth Barbour and her 29-year-old male companion, Aaron Blain Bates, were living in Mountain Home, they stayed in two houses that were both raided by the police.
The latest arrest for the couple came in mid-April last year. They were charged with breaking into a home reportedly owned by two of Bate’s relatives.
Several months earlier, Bates and Barbour were staying in another residence, located on Red Robin Drive, where drugs and items of drug paraphernalia were found after the Mountain Home Police SWAT team raided the property.
Six people were found to living in the house. Several pipes used for smoking methamphetamine and a set of digital scales were found in a room occupied by Bates and Barbour.
Bates was arrested and charged with possessing drug paraphernalia. Court records do not show that charges were filed against Barbour in that incident.
The frequent changes in living arrangements were made necessary because Bates and Barbour were homeless, according to information Barbour included on an application to obtain the services of a public defender.
On the Public Defender application, Barbour listed the couple as homeless and wrote that she and Bates were “technically married.”
Bates recently appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court and entered a guilty plea to charges against him in his two active criminal cases and was given five years in prison.
He was also ordered to pay victim restitution of almost $700. He is currently an inmate in the Tucker Unit of the state prison system.
Barbour made her situation worse when she failed to show up for a court appearance in November last year and a failure-to-appear warrant was issued. Jail records show when she was booked into the Baxter County Detention Center, she listed her address as Malvern.
She is due to reappear in court next month.
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