One of the people arrested after a large cache of drugs and drug paraphernalia was located during a compliance visit to a parolee’s home located along Cranfield Road on February 8 appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court last Monday.
Molly Dillard who had been living in the house on Cranfield Road for some time pled not guilty to the charges against her.
The other person arrested — 45-year-old John Dewayne Allen, Sr., who lists an address in Paragould — had earlier pled not guilty to the charges against him.
A request was made to the court to reduce Dillard’s bond. The defense asked the bond be cut to $10,000, but Circuit Judge John Putman set it at $20,000.
The bond had been set at $75,000 when she was initially booked into jail on March 19.
A plea of not guilty has also been entered for Allen by his attorney, King Benson of Paragould.
Allen is an inmate in the Baxter County Detention Center.
Officers reported finding more than a dozen types of controlled substances in the residence, including:
– Eight glass jars of marijuana
– Almost seventy grams of methamphetamine
– A plastic bag containing a small amount of Fentynal
– Almost 12 grams of ecstasy
– Psilocybin mushrooms
– Eighty grams of hashish
– Nineteen suboxone strips
– Hydrocodone pills
– Oxycodone pills
– Alprazolam pills
– Clonazepam pills
– Amphetamine/dextroamphetamine pills
According to the probable cause affidavit, there were several pills that were not identifiable because the numbers had been worn off and some appeared to be “homemade.”
Allen was reported to have had $1,100 in cash in his wallet. He has a lengthy criminal history with numerous felony convictions – including charges of selling controlled substances.
Allen is alleged to have told officers the drugs belonged to his 22-year-old son who died in early January.
He said the residence where he was staying was his “lake house” and he had brought the drugs from Paragould to dispose of them but had not “gotten around to it yet.”
Allen told an officer he would “never sell drugs.”
In Greene County, Allen has been charged with possessing cocaine, heroin, Fentynal and “marijuana edibles.”
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