Amelia Pittaway pled guilty to state drug charges during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Tuesday.
The 40-year-old Pittaway was sentenced to six years in prison with all but 20 months suspended. She has already served that time and will now be taken to face federal drug charges. She is scheduled to go on trial in Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas in Jonesboro in late February, along with 44-year-old Curtis Clifton.
STATE DRUG CASE
The state drug case was filed against Pittaway in late 2021 stemming from the execution of a search warrant at the residence where Pittaway was living at the time.
In the bedroom Pittaway occupied, officers found a pistol which showed to have been stolen from Ozark County. Pittaway is a convicted felon and prohibited from being around firearms.
According to the probable cause affidavit, the search also turned up methamphetamine, marijuana and paraphernalia used to ingest the drugs.
Pittaway was first criminal charge was filed in 2017.
FEDERAL CHARGES
In the federal case against them, Pittaway and Clifton were charged with possessing six pounds of methamphetamine after they were pulled over by a sheriff’s deputy in Craighead County in early 2022.
They both used false names. Pittaway said she was “Jasmine Popp” and Clinton claimed he was “Daniel Martinez.” A computer check revealed their true identities.
Pittaway’s record shows multiple arrests on drug-related charges.
Clifton has made appearances in courtrooms in Baxter, Cross, Crittenden, Craighead, Mississippi, St. Francis and Lee Counties in Arkansas and Dunklin County, Missouri according to electronic court records in both states.
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