Court News
Circuit Judge Craig Carter processed a total of 28 criminal cases and seven civil cases during the Nov. 8 session of Ozark County Law Day. The criminal case updates are listed below.
Cases that reached
disposition
Michael Linn Cox pleaded guilty to domestic assault and was sentenced to a 120-...
Rebecca Ruud and Robert Peat Jr.
Rebecca Ruud’s and Robert Peat Jr.’s murder trials are both awaiting Supreme Court assignment to a new judge.
Ruud appeared before Judge Tony W. Williams in the Taney County Courthouse Oct. 27 represented by public defender John Zimmerman after Ozark County Prosecutor John Garrabrant had filed a...
Talmadge Pendergrass, 28, of Mountain Home, Arkansas, has been convicted in federal court of making a false statement in the acquisition of a firearm in a case connected to the Nov. 7, 2015, murder of an elderly Midway, Arkansas, couple. Pendergrass is alleged to have purchased the 9mm handgun...
The bench trial of Theodosia husband and wife David Bauer, 55, and Tiffany Bauer, 33, was held before Associate Judge Elizabeth Bock Nov. 1-2 at the Ozark County Courthouse in Gainesville. After hearing two days of testimony, Bock took the trial under advisement, meaning she plans to review the...
Jerry Studdard
Jerry Studdard, 52, of Wasola is scheduled to be arraigned before Associate Judge Cynthia MacPherson Nov. 14 on charges of forcible sodomy/deviate sexual intercourse by forcible compulsion and two counts of statutory sodomy. The allegations against Studdard include sexually engaging multiple...
To contact the Ozark County Sheriff’s Depart-ment or other emergency-responding agencies, call 679-4633. In an emergency, dial 911.
Oct. 23
10:26 a.m. – Unspecified medical. Lick Creek VFD and Ozark County Ambulance responded. Coroner was also dispatched.
11:18 a.m. – Subject arrested on Tarmac...
To contact the Ozark County Sheriff’s Department, call 417-679-4633. In an emergency, dial 911.
Oct. 16 (continued from last week’s Times)
10:34 a.m. – Caller said a red, four-door Pontiac Grand Am had a flat and parked in front of his hay field on County Road 605. The occupants threw the donut...
Andrew “Brandt” Clay. Photo courtesy of the Ozark County Jail.
Andrew “Brandt” Clay, a 19-year-old Gainesville man, was arraigned Tuesday on a class B felony charge of shooting a firearm at another person in connection with a Oct. 21 incident in which Clay reportedly pulled his truck up behind the truck of another man he knew, grabbed a shotgun and discharged...
Rebecca Ruud’s murder trial has been moved to Taney County on a change of venue motion, and Judge Tony W. Williams has been assigned to the case. According to online court records, Ruud is scheduled to appear Friday, Oct. 27, before Williams in Taney County court. She is now incarcerated in the...
Sheriff's report
To contact the Ozark County Sheriff’s Department or other emergency-responding agencies, call 679-4633. In an emergency, dial 911.
Oct. 8
12:25 a.m. – Caller believes someone is trying to steal his cattle. He heard people near his property line on Z Highway then they took off when he went outside...