Authorities are seeking to rearrest a Powell man after he failed to show up for a Monday sentencing hearing.
Adam Lynn, 33, is facing several charges in connection with allegations that he used …
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Authorities are seeking to rearrest a Powell man after he failed to show up for a Monday sentencing hearing.
Adam Lynn, 33, is facing several charges in connection with allegations that he used drugs and wandered into multiple people’s homes in late 2023. Lynn agreed to accept a plea deal offered by the Park County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, but then experienced a “medical emergency” and dropped out of contact, said his defense attorney, Sam Krone. Over the past couple of months, “I’ve been unable to contact him,” Krone relayed at Monday’s hearing in Park County District Court.
Judge Bill Simpson said he would issue a bench warrant.
Lynn is facing a felony count of possessing a controlled substance (in this case, marijuana) for a third or subsequent time and multiple misdemeanor charges of using drugs and criminal entry.
Charging documents say Lynn was reported to be knocking on doors in Powell’s Wood Street area on Dec. 28, 2023. The following day, he allegedly let himself into multiple homes and garages, scaring at least one family.
Police believe that Lynn was under the influence of meth and/or other drugs at the time of the incidents. Court filings and statements also indicate there were concerns about his mental health.
Lynn said in court last year that he wasn’t trying to hurt anyone and indicated that he was seeking treatment. He described the incidents as a “mental lapse.”
In January, Krone informed the district court that his client was ready to change his not guilty plea in the felony case, indicating that a plea deal had been reached. However, the defense attorney said Monday that he lost contact with Lynn in roughly February.
Krone didn’t elaborate on the medical emergency his client suffered, but separate court documents say Lynn was seriously injured in a January altercation in Cody. Charging documents say Lynn and 39-year-old Michael “Ike” Hothan got into a fight on the afternoon of Jan. 10; Hothan had reportedly become upset over a $45 debt.
The fight was initially mutual, according to the narrative pieced together by Cody police, but Hothan is alleged to have taken things too far — kicking and stomping on Lynn’s head a half-dozen times after the fight had broken up.
Lynn reportedly suffered multiple broken bones in his face and several cuts that required stitches.
Hothan is facing a felony count of aggravated assault and battery. He’s free on a $25,000 surety bond with conditions that include using a GPS-tracking and alcohol-sensing device.
Lynn, meanwhile, has been free on a $5,000 surety bond. Referring to the upcoming bench warrant, Simpson said he will “see if we can ever locate Mr. Lynn again.”
Lynn is also due in Park County Circuit Court on Tuesday for a separate change of plea hearing.