Mount Ida probationer sentenced to prison on felony drug charges
A Mount Ida woman on probation from a 2015 robbery conviction was sentenced to five years in prison Monday after pleading guilty to felony drug charges stemming from her arrest earlier this year.
Amber Lanette Hendrickson, 24, who has remained in custody in lieu of $7,500 bond since her arrest
March 8, pleaded guilty in Garland County
Circuit Court to possession of a controlled substance, methamphetamine, and possession of drug paraphernalia, and was sentenced to five years on each count, to run concurrently with each other and the revocation of her probation.
Hendrickson, who was also ordered to pay $295 in court costs, agreed to testify against her alleged accomplice involved in the drug charges, Dillon Alaster Crumpton, 22, whose case is still pending in circuit court.
According to the affidavit on the drug charges, on March 8, shortly after 2:30 a.m., Hot Springs police Officers Billy Perkins and Joey Vanderburg responded to the 300 block of Davis Drive regarding a suspicious vehicle and saw a red Mercury four-door sedan parked sideways at the end of a driveway.
After noting the license plate returned to a different vehicle, the officers approached the vehicle and found a white female, identified as Hendrickson, asleep in the back seat, and a white male, later identified as Crumpton, asleep in the driver’s seat. After officers observed a small revolver in Crumpton’s left hand, both suspects were taken into custody. The gun was found to be loaded.
In searching the vehicle, officers found a small plastic bag of marijuana, four empty syringes, a partial spoon with white residue in a black case and a syringe loaded with a clear liquid inside the vehicle. The spoon and syringe field-tested positive for meth, so both were taken into custody on drug charges.
According to the affidavit on Hendrickson’ robbery arrest, she was arrested on June 1, 2015, after she and two males robbed a Hot Springs man at his residence.
Police responded to the victim’s residence in the 600 block of Spring Street and were told by the victim that several subjects attacked him and stole his handgun. Hendrickson and two males reportedly arrived at the residence around 3 p.m. and asked to use his phone. The victim allowed one known male to
use the phone and Hendrickson walked to another room. The second, unknown male stayed in the room with the victim and the known male.
The victim stated the two males attacked him, hitting his head. He fell to the floor as the attack continued and felt his handgun in a holster on his hip pulled away from him. At that time, all three suspects fled from the residence in a car driven by Hendrickson.