A habitual offender arrested last year for having a handgun during an altercation with his girlfriend despite being a convicted felon pleaded guilty Monday in Garland County Circuit Court.
John Lennon Anderson, 34, whose parole from a previous conviction was revoked after his arrest, pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm by certain persons, punishable by up to six years in prison, and was sentenced to five years' probation, fined $5,000 and ordered to pay $170 in court costs upon his release from the parole revocation.
Anderson's classification as a habitual offender stems from his prior felony convictions for theft by receiving in Pike County in 2005, and terroristic threatening and criminal mischief in 2007, residential burglary and third-degree domestic battery in 2012, and aggravated assault on a family or household member in 2014, all in Clark County.
According to the affidavit, on Dec. 14, 2016, around 5:15 p.m., Hot Springs police responded to a residence in the 300 block of Cooper Street regarding a disturbance and made contact with Anderson's girlfriend who stated she and Anderson got into an altercation.
She said Anderson grabbed her .22-caliber revolver from the bedroom nightstand and was threatening to kill himself with it. At one point, he fired a round into the ceiling as she ran next door to a neighbor's house to call police.
Anderson was gone when officers arrived, but he was taken into custody six days later and held on $2,500 bond. He had remained in custody since then after his parole was revoked.
Local on 05/24/2017