A man who has faced numerous felony charges in Baxter County, including those stemming from the burning of his mother’s home, is now jailed in Marion County on aggravated assault charges.
Thirty-three-year-old Scott Glenn Willett, who lists an address in Mountain Home on his most recently filed court documents, was arrested late last month.
He is scheduled to be arraigned March 12 in Marion County Circuit Court.
According to the probable cause affidavit, Willett was reported to have been banging on the door of a residence along South Third Street in Flippin in early November last year.
The person who answered the door told investigators he saw that Willett was “holding a knife out toward” him and demanding to see other people who were in the home at the time.
The man said he slammed the door shut and told Willett to leave.
Willett was not jailed on the Marion County charge until February 20. According to court records, he was on parole at the time and that parole now shows to be revoked.
Willett was sentenced to eight years in prison in 2017 on charges that he burned his mother’s mobile home located along Wildcat Shoals Road the year before.
When firefighters and Baxter County sheriff’s deputies arrived on scene, they reported the home was fully engulfed.
Willett first told investigators when he arrived at the home, the fire was already burning and emergency responders were on scene. He initially denied knowing anything about how the fire started.
A neighbor provided video from surveillance cameras on his property and Willett’s story began to fall apart.
The video footage showed Willett leaving the residence at about 11:30 a.m. on September 5 of 2016. Less than a minute after he departed, smoke could be seen coming from the rear of the mobile home.
When questioned further, Willett was reported to have confessed to setting the fire by throwing a lit torch on his mother’s bed before leaving the residence.
When Willett was given a psychological evaluation, it was determined that he committed the act not because of mental illness, but more out of anger at his mother.
There had been an ongoing conflict between Willett and his mother. A number of incident reports have been filed by the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office based on threats Willett was alleged to have made to his parent to kill her and burn her house down.
He was also charged in one case with threatening a woman with a machete and stealing her vehicle.
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