Trials set during Aug. 25 Ozark County law day

Two trials were scheduled and two people pleaded guilty before Judge Craig Carter during the Aug. 25 session of Ozark County Circuit Court.

Trials set

A jury trial is scheduled for January 2026 for Brandon W. Williams. A pretrial will be held at 9 a.m. Dec. 3. Williams is charged with second degree sodomy and second degree sexual abuse with aggravated sexual offense. 

Pretrial and a jury trial are scheduled for April 2026 for Bret Wayne Anderson. Anderson is charged with felony failure to appear.

Brian Cuthbertson

A probation violation hearing for Brian Cuthbertson was held and he was taken into custody. According to online court records, Cuthbertson told the court that he has hired a new attorney, but she was not able to be present in court. 

However, for the second time, the state’s witnesses had driven from outside the circuit, so Judge Carter decided to hear their testimony.

Carter found that Cuthbertson had violated terms of his probation by having social media accounts, using methamphetamine and failing to register as a sex offender. Sentencing will be at 1:30 p.m. Sept. 24.

Jamie Diane Judd

West Plains resident Jamie Diane Judd, born in 1980, pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled substance. She was sentenced to five years in the Missouri Department of Corrections, SES and probation. 

An SES, or suspended execution of sentence, means Judd will be sentenced to a prison term but will be placed on probation. She will not go to prison unless she violates the terms of that probation.

Six charges of receiving stolen property and a misdemeanor charge of unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia with prior drug use were dismissed. 

According to the probable cause statement, prepared by Ozark County Lt. Matt Rhoades, at 6 p.m. Feb. 19, 2024, he and former Ozark County Deputy James Fountain were conducting extra patrol by a house on County Road 330 in Zanoni after the owner of the home requested officers keep an eye on the place while she was away.

When they pulled by the home, they noticed a woman walking into the house. Rhoades confirmed with the owner that the woman was not allowed to be here. She was identified as Jamie Judd, and the officers discovered she had two active warrants out for her arrest at that time. One of the warrants was in relation to a burglary case. 

During a search, Rhoades found a locked box. Judd had a key for it, and upon his request, she unlocked the box. Inside there were several debit and credit cards. 

“Under Miranda, Jamie told me one of the cards was stolen, and that it pertained to a previous case involving a burglary in Arkansas,” Rhoades’ report said. He confirmed that was true with the Fulton County, Arkansas, Sheriff’s Department. 

“I also located a small box in plain sight next to the bed where she had been sleeping for approximately two weeks, according to her. Inside the box, there were meth pipes and a glass bottle with a white crystal-like substance which I recognized with my training and experience to be meth. Next to the box there was a small bag containing used hypodermic needles,” the report says. 

The pipes, bottle and needles all field-tested positive for amphetamines.

David L. Bradberry II

Tecumseh resident David L Bradberry II, born in 1993, pleaded guilty in two cases. He pleaded to delivery or possession of a controlled substance at a county, private jail or correctional center except with a prescription. He was sentenced to four years in the DOC to run concurrent with the second charge. 

According to the probable cause statement, prepared by Ozark County Sheriff’s Deputy Gannon Moss, on May 3, 2024, he was working uniformed patrol in Ozark County when the OCSD dispatcher contacted him to say an inmate in the jail had been found in possession of a suspected controlled substance. 

“David Bradberry was in the Ozark County Jail in the holding cell when he was caught by our jailer hiding marijuana underneath his mat. Upon inspecting the holding cell, where he was housed by himself, I saw a small pile of what appeared to be marijuana underneath his sleeping mat. When asked about it, David denied knowing anything about it,” the statement says. “Despite his many denials of it being his, the marijuana discovered in the holding cell was not there prior to David being booked in and placed inside holding.”

He was pulled out of the cell and strip searched again, the report said. He reportedly refused to comply with commands intended to determine if anything was hidden inside his body. 

“David was placed back into the holding cell. Later that same day, more contraband in the form of three wires, a needle and black electrical tape was found inside of his mat. I believe these to be the same items that he was attempting to conceal from us during his strip search mentioned above. These items were removed from the cell and placed into evidence along with the weed.”

In the second case, Bradberry pleaded guilty to  possession of a controlled substance. He was sentenced to four years in the DOC to run concurrent with the first charge.

According to the probable cause statement filed in the second case by former Ozark County Sheriff’s Deputy John Russo, he had received a report of a suspicious person at Gainesville Health Care Center on March 4, 2023. Russo determined it was Bradberry who was present at the nursing home. 

During a search of Bradberry’s car, a silver 2010 Ford SUV, he discovered a glass methamphetamine pipe that field-tested positive for meth. After being advised of his Miranda right, Bradberry reportedly told the officer that he would find his DNA on the pipe.

Other cases

One person was continued on probation.

Four cases were continued to 9 a.m. Sept. 3; five cases to 1:30 p.m. Sept. 24; 13 cases to 9 a.m. Oct. 8; and three cases to 9 a.m. Nov. 5.