Glenwood mayor pleads guilty to misdemeanor charges; resigns effective immediately

The Mayor of Glenwood has plead guilty to misdemeanor charges that include Theft of Property and Abuse of Office. As a result of the plea, Billy T. Smith has been ordered to pay restitution of $3,000 dollars to the city of Glenwood. He was also fined $250 dollars and has resigned his mayor’s position, effective immediately.
In August 2021, the Attorney General’s Public Integrity Division revealed Smith hired a private company to transport $4,000 worth of asphalt millings from the Arkansas Highway 70 resurfacing project to his home and to the home of his son-in-law to resurface their private driveways.
Smith was arrested in February and charged with Felony Theft of Property, a class D Felony, in addition to Abuse of Office, also a class D Felony. He surrendered himself to Special Agents of the Attorney General’s Office at the Pike County Jail, where he was taken into custody. Smith was sworn in as Glenwood’s Mayor in January 2019.
The case was prosecuted by Pike County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Alwin A. Smith in Circuit Court Judge Bryan Chessir’s courtroom.