Within a span of 76 days last year, a Gassville man was arrested three times on drug charges.
Court records show 40-year-old Lonnie Tolliver was taken into custody on January 26, April 6 and April 11, 2021.
At one point, Tolliver appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court, pled guilty to his charges and was put on supervised probation for 10 years. He was also ordered to enter and successfully complete the 14th Judicial District Drug Court program.
Revocation petitions were recently filed in all of Tolliver’s 2021 cases in which various allegations are made concerning Tolliver’s violation of the terms and conditions of his probation.
Tolliver, whose criminal record dates back to 2014, appeared during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Monday and admitted he had not abided by the terms and conditions of his probation and had been thrown out of the Drug Court Program. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
This year, according to court records, Tolliver tested positive for having methamphetamine in his system twice in January, once in February and twice in March. He was also cited for refusing to provide a urine sample or not showing up for random drug testing on numerous occasions, and to have lied several times when he denied using methamphetamine after testing positive for the drug — forcing another test to be run to confirm the initial results.
Tolliver is also reported to have moved without providing his new address, making himself unavailable for supervision.
FEMALE ALSO ARRESTED
Forty-two-year-old Mary Coney, also of Gassville, was reported to be with Tolliver at the time of all three of his arrests last year.
The couple was first taken into custody in late January last year at the Executive Inn in Mountain Home where they were checked into a room.
A Mountain Home police officer running license plates on the motel parking lot showed a vehicle registered to Tolliver who had an outstanding warrant.
According to the probable cause affidavit, once officers gained entry to the room, methamphetamine and paraphernalia used to ingest methamphetamine were found.
Initially, Coney gave officers an alias she has used in the past – Mary Hunt.
When her true identity was determined, it was found she had outstanding warrants with police departments in Mountain Home and Gassville and an active arrest warrant issued in Marion County.
A Mountain Home police officer pulled Tolliver over April 6. According to the probable cause affidavit, the officer knew Tolliver’s driver’s license was suspended.
Before the vehicle came to a stop the officer said he saw a small white bag thrown from the passenger side window.
The officer reported Tolliver as being a passenger in the vehicle that was being driven by Coney.
The bag that had been thrown from the window was retrieved.
Both Tolliver and Coney were taken to jail and charged with possessing methamphetamine.
Tolliver and Coney were stopped April 11 by a Gassville police officer and were again found in possession of methamphetamine.
Court records indicate Coney apparently picked up felony charges in only two of her arrests while in Tolliver’s company. She has already pled and been sentenced to probation in those two cases.
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