HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – A Hot Springs man who called police to help him collect his belongings from the condominium he had just been evicted from, including his guns, was charged Tuesday with seven felony counts of possessing firearms as a convicted felon.
Wesley Steven Snodgrass Jr., 52, told the officers who showed up that he wanted their help getting his guns, a Hot Springs police detective wrote in a probable cause affidavit. A records check turned up a 2022 felony conviction in Pulaski County, and he was arrested on the spot.
Each count of possession of firearms by certain persons is a Class D felony, punishable by up to six years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000.
Prosecuting Attorney Michelle Lawrence filed the charges in Garland County Circuit Court. The case is assigned to Circuit Judge Meredith Switzer, the same judge who two months earlier signed the order that put Snodgrass out of the condo.
According to the affidavit by Detective Jacob Palmer, Snodgrass had lived in Unit V10 at 151 Peters Point until Aug. 7, when he was evicted. On Aug. 12, the property owner, Linda Flowers, found several firearms inside and called police. Officers ran the guns through the state crime database to make sure they were not stolen.
The next morning, officers were called back to the condo for a possible theft. Snodgrass told them he had been notified that his property was being removed from the unit, went outside and confronted Flowers about it, Palmer wrote. After an argument, he went to Unit V14, where he had been staying, and called police.
When officers arrived, Snodgrass “made the spontaneous utterance” asking for their help collecting his belongings, “to include his guns,” the affidavit says.
Officers checked him through the Arkansas and national crime databases and learned of the 2022 felony conviction. “Due to his admission of wanting to collect his guns, Snodgrass was taken into custody,” Palmer wrote.
While he was being processed at the police department, detectives got a search warrant for Unit V10. Inside, they found a large black case holding a Smith & Wesson Shield pistol, a Taurus Slim pistol, an Anderson AR-15 rifle and a Winchester Model 94 rifle, along with ammunition and magazines, according to the affidavit.
The affidavit lists four guns. The charging document filed Tuesday does not say what accounts for the other three counts.
Snodgrass was released from the Garland County jail the same day on a $2,500 bond.
The conviction that makes it illegal for him to have a gun came in July 2022, when he pleaded guilty in Pulaski County Circuit Court to a fraudulent insurance act, a Class D felony, for conduct in February 2019. Circuit Judge Leon Johnson gave him a three-year suspended sentence and a $1,000 fine, court records show.
The sentencing order shows the plea was entered under Arkansas’ first-offender law, which lets a defendant who completes probation have the case dismissed and sealed. Nothing in the court record shows that happened.
The Hot Springs charge is not Snodgrass’ only pending felony case.
He is awaiting trial in Pulaski County on a charge of simultaneous possession of drugs and firearms, a Class Y felony carrying 10 to 40 years or life in prison, along with possession of methamphetamine, cocaine or heroin with the purpose to deliver, being a felon in possession of a firearm, two drug paraphernalia counts and obstructing governmental operations. Sherwood police arrested him Nov. 21, 2025, and prosecutors filed the case in circuit court Feb. 24.
He pleaded not guilty in April. His attorneys at the James Law Firm in Little Rock have filed motions to suppress his statements to police and the evidence seized in what they call an illegal search. A status hearing is set for Oct. 12 before Circuit Judge LaTonya Honorable.
Snodgrass was free on a recognizance bond in that case when Hot Springs police arrested him.
The eviction that led to the Hot Springs arrest was the end of a court fight that Snodgrass started himself.
On May 21, acting as his own lawyer, he sued Flowers and two of her companies, Linflo Properties LLC and Harhut Investments LLC, in Garland County Circuit Court. He asked a judge to block the eviction and to bar Flowers from telling neighbors or his business contacts about it, writing that his livelihood in “the real-estate and finance fields” depended on his reputation.
Snodgrass said he had moved into the condo in February under an oral agreement, never signed a lease and had been negotiating to buy the unit for $225,000. Flowers had posted an eviction notice on his door May 18.
Linflo answered with a counterclaim for unlawful detainer, saying Snodgrass had agreed to pay $1,900 a month and had not paid since May 1.
Snodgrass did not answer the counterclaim. On July 23, Switzer entered a default order giving Linflo possession, and the clerk issued a writ of possession. Deputies posted it on the door Aug. 4 and completed the lockout Aug. 7, according to the sheriff’s return.
Two days before the lockout, Snodgrass filed an emergency motion asking Switzer to stop it. He swore he had never received the counterclaim or the notices, which Linflo’s attorney said were sent by mail, and argued the writ was defective because it ordered the property returned to “the Plaintiff,” which in the case he filed was him.
A hearing set for Aug. 17 was canceled after Linflo’s attorney, Ethan Nobles, wrote the judge that his client had taken possession of the property. The case remains open.
On the day of the lockout, Hot Springs police also arrested Snodgrass on two outstanding warrants, court records show. One was for failing to appear on an April citation for driving on a suspended license. The other was a March warrant in a misdemeanor case in which a district judge has issued no-contact orders covering an individual and the Best Buy store. He was also cited that day for driving on a suspended license, driving without insurance and expired tags.
He missed his Sept. 8 arraignment on those cases, and a judge issued another failure-to-appear warrant. Two days later, deputies took him into custody when he walked into the district clerk’s office, according to a clerk’s note. He posted a $2,500 bond and pleaded not guilty. Trials are set for Nov. 18 and Jan. 28.
On the bail form he filled out after his Aug. 13 arrest, Snodgrass listed his employer as TBS Investments, where he said he had been the owner for 26 years, with a salary of $318,000 a year. He listed no property and no debts.
Arkansas Securities Department records show TBS Investments Inc., doing business as American Residential Mortgage, was a licensed mortgage broker in Cabot until the state suspended its license in May 2006 after its $50,000 surety bond was canceled. That July, the department issued a cease-and-desist order against Snodgrass, its president and owner, finding he had kept taking loan applications after his loan officer license was canceled.
No arraignment date had been set in the Garland County case as of Tuesday afternoon, and no defense attorney was listed.
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