A compliance visit to the Gassville home of a man on probation in September last year resulted in two arrests and the seizure of drugs and paraphernalia used to ingest drugs.
One of the people arrested, 35-year-old Daniel Chetnik, appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court last Monday and pled guilty to the charges against him. He was sentenced to three years in prison followed by three years-probation.
A search of the house turned up methamphetamine, capsules containing a substance identified as Fentynal, alprazolam pills and marijuana THC concentrate.
A glass smoking pipe was found on a kitchen countertop and two used syringes were in an open safe in Chetniks bedroom, according to the probable cause affidavit.
The other person picked up during the compliance visit to the home along County Road 8 in the Gassville area was 25-year-old Embry Melissa Parks. She was put probation for six years on November 14 and was ordered into the 14th Judicial District Drug Court Program.
REVOCATION REVOKED
The new drug charges triggered the filing of a revocation petition in a case opened on Chetnik in 2021 after he allegedly confronted security officers and police at Baxter Health armed with multiple weapons.
He was charged with aggravated assault and terroristic threatening, both felonies, and a misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest.
Mountain Home police officers responded after receiving a call that a man with a gun was in the parking lot at the hospital. When officers located Chetnik, he was reported to have been armed with a handgun, several rifle magazines and wearing a bullet proof vest.
His wife told police when they arrived at the hospital, he called her to the driver’s side of his truck. She saw that he had placed an assault-type rifle under his chin. When his wife told him she was calling 911, he is alleged to have said “he couldn’t pull the trigger on himself, so he would have the police shoot him.”
At one point, Chetnik dropped a handgun in his possession but refused to follow any other commands from police and a Taser was eventually used on him, he was tackled and taken into custody.
During the confrontation, Chetnik suffered injuries and was taken inside the hospital for treatment. He continued to be combative and his arms and legs had to be restrained.
During the confrontation in the parking lot, several people in the parking lot sought safety, some of them ducking behind parked cars.
Chetnik was put on probation for 36 months in mid-May 2022. It was this probation sentence that was revoked during Monday’s court session.
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