One of two men from Clinton, who managed to commit crimes in Baxter and Stone Counties on one hunting trip, pled no contest to the charges against him during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court recently.
Fifty-five-year-old Terry Lee Lovell was given six years probation on charges of possession of a controlled substance and paraphernalia used to ingest drugs.
According to the probable cause affidavit, on November 14 last year, two Arkansas Game and Fish enforcement officers saw a truck pulled off to the side of a roadway.
The officers, who were patrolling the Sylamore Wildlife Management Area in Stone County at the time, said the driver appeared as if he might be hunting out of the vehicle which is illegal.
According to the probable cause affidavit, the officers stopped to talk to 61-year-old Danny Joe Bramlett, also of Clinton, who was the only occupant in the truck.
His name was run through NCIC. The record showed he was a convicted felon with a waiver on file permitting warrantless searches of his person and property.
The officers went through Bramlett’s vehicle and reported seeing two loaded firearms in plain sight. They also saw smoking pipes commonly used in the ingestion of methamphetamine.
Bramlett was taken into custody for being a felon in possession of firearms and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Bramlett told the officers Lovell had given the guns to him. He said the men were staying in Lovell’s camper parked in a wooded area just over the Stone County line in Baxter County.
Lovell arrived on the scene and admitted to giving the firearms to Bramlett.
According to the probable cause affidavit, Lovell and Bramlett are related, and Lovell knew his relative was a felon and should not be around firearms.
Lovell is also alleged to have reported there was methamphetamine and yet more guns in the camper the men had been staying in.
The Baxter County Sheriff’s Office was contacted and a search warrant was obtained for the camper.
Baxter County deputies found drug paraphernalia in several areas of the camper and a number of weapons in a cabinet.
According to the probable cause affidavit, a white substance contained in a small plastic wrapping field-tested positive for methamphetamine.
Bramlett is charged in Baxter County with simultaneously possessing drugs and guns, being a felon in possession of firearms, possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia.
His Stone County charges include being a felon in possession of a firearm and paraphernalia used to ingest methamphetamine.
Bramlett’s cases in Stone and Baxter Counties remain open.
Lovell was initially charged in Baxter County with simultaneously possessing drugs and guns, possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia.
The simultaneous possession charge was dismissed by the state.
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