A Mountain Home woman who has had a number of run-ins with the law on drug-related issues appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court last Monday and pled no contest to allegation in two cases opened last year.
Thirty-three-year-old Brittany Saunders was given six years in prison with a judicial transfer to one of the Community Correction Centers in the state for addiction treatment.
Saunders was arrested in mid-September last year when probation/parole agents along with members of the 14th judicial District Drug Task Force made a compliance visit to Saunders’ residence along Highway 5 South.
They reported finding Christopher Davis at the home as well. When he opened the door, Davis was reported to “have immediately placed his hands behind his back” as suspects do when they are preparing to be arrested.
Even though he was apparently living at the house at the time officers made the visit, Saunders had an active order of protection to keep Davis away from the home.
When officers contacted Saunders, she pointed out the bedroom she shared with Davis. A search of the room turned up two plastic bags containing a white crystal-like substance, glass smoking devices, digital scales and 7 pills identified as alprazolam.
The second case was opened in September last year after Saunders was alleged to have sold almost 8 grams of methamphetamine to a person working with law enforcement.
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