A Hot Springs man who wrecked his motorcycle Saturday night faced multiple felony charges after deputies reportedly found drugs and a stolen firearm on his person.
Dalton Lynn Lemons, 27, was charged with simultaneous possession of drugs and firearms, theft by receiving, two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia, carrying certain prohibited weapons, possession of a controlled schedule II substance and DWI. He remained in custody Monday on no bond and is due in Garland County District Court on July 7.
Shortly after 10 p.m., Cpl. Josh Cannon located a wrecked motorcycle in a ditch near the 500 block of Rush Fork Road. Deputy Clayton Green arrived to assist and made contact with the driver, identified as Lemons. According to the affidavit, Green immediately smelled an odor of intoxicants from the suspect. Lemons stated a deer ran in the road and caused him to wreck, and Green asked if he would perform field sobriety tests.
Lemons performed poorly on the three tests and Green placed him under arrest for DWI. During a pat down, Green noticed a bulge in Lemons' pants and found a pistol below his left hip. The gun was found reported stolen through the Hot Springs Police Department.
During an inventory of Lemons' motorcycle before it was towed, Cannon located a backpack that contained a pill grinder, 1.5 Oxycodone pills, crushed Oxycodone pills and a red straw used to ingest pills.
• A Bryant woman sought for an assault in 2013 was arrested Saturday night on a felony charge.
Tiffany Michelle Hardin, 36, was charged with aggravated assault, a felony punishable by up to six years in prison. She was later released on bonds totaling $2,500 and is due in district court July 7.
On Nov. 3, 2013, a family was in front of their Vineyard Street residence when a vehicle occupied by two females drove by and nearly hit one of their children. A subject yelled at the driver and stated the speed limit was 25 mph. According to the affidavit, a female exited the vehicle and told the subject to keep his children out of the road. The female allegedly stated they would "be back for you all."
According to the affidavit, five minutes later a blue vehicle stopped near the subject's residence and a male exited and asked who pulled a bat on his wife. The subject stated nobody had a bat and the male suspect stated, "I got something for you." He removed the license plate from his vehicle, put it in the trunk and then pulled a shotgun out and pointed it at the subject.
Hardin was identified by the victims as one of the suspects in the blue car that assaulted them.
• Nineteen people were arrested for public intoxication early Sunday morning when deputies responded multiple times to a party.
According to the affidavit, Cpl. Josh Cannon and deputies Bennie Strickland and Clayton Green were dispatched to 106 Lookout Point Friday and Saturday in reference to loud music and people drinking. The deputies advised the subjects to turn the music down and go to their rooms.
Saturday the deputies made contact with a group of subjects in the parking lot with bloodshot eyes and slurred speech. Suspects arrested were John Carl Galloway, of Texas, 18; Parker Rieff Fitzgerald, of Missouri, 20; Tanner Duke Norman, of Tennessee, 18; Zachary Cole Etoch, of Fayetteville, 19; Blake Lane Darnell, of Conway, 20; Miller Moore Croom, of Russellville, 18; Matthew Ian Callaway, of Fort Smith, 21; Madison B. Brown, of El Dorado, 19; Patrick Charles Aucoin, of Texas, 18; Zoey Elizabeth Adkins, of Russellville, 19; Aaron Christopher Lockwood, of Stuttgart, 21; George Scott Galloway, of Texas, 20; Joseph Cain Mariani, of Little Rock, 19; Michael Anthony Lucrezi, of Texas, 18; Logan Andrew Wewers, of Little Rock, 21; and Nathan Thomas, of Little Rock, 22.
All of the suspects had bonded out or been released from custody as of Monday.
Local on 06/30/2015