A Grant County sheriff’s deputy stood at the ready to place Tomas Meadows in handcuffs Tuesday in Circuit Court Judge Stephen Shirron’s courtroom.

Meadows, 40, has been registered as a sex offender with the Sheridan Police Department since December 2024. However, he was charged April 20 with a Class C felony count of Failure to Comply with Registration and Reporting Requirements, according to court records filed in Grant County Circuit Court.

Meadows was also charged as a habitual offender, citing three prior felony convictions.

According to court documents, Meadows' last verified residence check was Jan. 5, 2026. He was arrested Feb. 12 on possession of a controlled substance charge. At some point, a Sheridan police officer noted Meadows’ registered vehicle stopped appearing at his place of employment.

On April 19, the officer drove past Meadows' registered address — 412 S. Rock St. in Sheridan — and found it apparently vacant, with no vehicles present, the affidavit states.

The next day, the Sheridan police officer consulted Group 6 Drug Task Force Agent Eddie Keathley. Meadows might be living in Jefferson County, Keathley told the officer.

A search of the state's CENSOR database, which tracks registered sex offenders, turned up no address or employment change filed by Meadows with any agency, according to the affidavit.

Sheridan police also checked the FLOCK camera network and found no hits on Meadows' vehicle in Sheridan since April 7.

However, Jefferson County FLOCK cameras had picked up the vehicle multiple times, most recently April 19.

The Sheridan police officer said in court documents that he called the owner of Triple S, listed as Meadows' employer. He was told him Meadows left the job about a month earlier.

Under the terms of his registration, Meadows was required to notify local law enforcement of any change in address, employment, email, vehicle, or social media — in person, within five days of a move.

As of April 20, no notification was not made.

The felony information, signed by Weber on behalf of Prosecuting Attorney Teresa Howell, alleged Meadows is a habitual offender under Arkansas law, pointing to three prior felony convictions: sexual indecency with a child, in Mississippi County in 2010; domestic battering in the third degree, also in Mississippi County, in 2020; and forgery in the state of Tennessee in 2025.

Last summer, on July 1, 2025, according to a separate affidavit, Sgt. Layton Bell stopped a maroon Cadillac.

Bell ran the license plate and discovered an active felony warrant from Shelby County, Tenn., for Meadows. Bell arrested Meadows on the Tennessee warrant.

According to court documents, Meadows handed Bell a folded dollar bill he said contained crushed ecstasy. He told the sergeant he didn't want to bring it into the detention center.

The substance was later sent to the state crime lab. That report dated January 2026  stated that the substance tested positive for methamphetamine and MDMA, weighing 0.274 grams.

Meadows resolved all three pending cases through a guilty plea, according to Weber.

Meadows faced two separate drug possession cases, for which Weber had offered a six-year Arkansas Department of Correction sentence. Before Meadows accepted that offer, Weber filed the third case — the failure-to-comply charge stemming from the April 2026 warrant.

Weber told the Fire, “Mr. Meadows had two drug possession cases for which I offered six years in the Department of Correction. Before he accepted that offer, I filed a third case for failing to comply with reporting requirements from a previous conviction. The new case was on the plea and arraignment yesterday. Usually, the defendants plead not guilty, get discovery, and I make an offer to be accepted a few months later.  Yesterday, I gave him the option, that was good for yesterday only, that if he pleaded guilty to all three cases, I would keep the offer at six years by running the sentence in the new case concurrently with the other two cases.  Had he rejected that offer, I would have argued that any sentence he ultimately received on the new case be served consecutively to the other two cases.”

Meadows accepted the offer, according to Weber, resolving all three cases with a six-year Department of Correction sentence. He is currently in the Sheridan Detention Center.