Christopher Jorsch Jr. (Photo courtesy of Baxter County Sheriff’s Office)
The possession of a weapon by a 20-year-old Midway man left him facing new charges in Marion County and triggered the revocation of his probation handed down earlier in three Baxter County criminal cases.
Christopher Richard Jorsch, Jr., was sentenced to five years in prison during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Oct 21.
In the Marion County case, Jorsch was a passenger in a vehicle that was pulled over May 12 by a Marion County sheriff’s deputy.
A female minor was driving, and she told officers Jorsch had passed a handgun to another male passenger and told him to hide it so Jorsch, who was a convicted felon, would not get into trouble.
Convicted felons are not allowed to be in contact with weapons.
When officers ordered the two males out of the vehicle, they found a 9-millimeter pistol in the waistband of the person alleged to have been given the weapon by Jorsch. Multiple .9-millimeter cartridges were located in the “glove box” on the side of the vehicle where Jorsch had been riding.
The new Marion County charge caused revocation petitions to be filed in three Baxter County criminal cases. On March 4, Jorsch pled guilty to charges in those cases and was put on probation for 48 months.
TANTRUM ONE
In late May last year, Jorsch had been arrested after he threw a tantrum at Baxter Health during which he is reported to have spit on security guards, made threats to kill numerous people at the hospital and destroyed property.
The incident at Baxter Health began when security officers at the hospital were told by a charge nurse that Jorsch needed to be put in a restraint chair because of his combative behavior.
According to the probable cause affidavit, Mountain Home police officers were called to the hospital to assist with Jorsch, who was reported to have not only become aggressive with staff but to have destroyed a Plexiglas panel at the nurses’ station.
While security officers were attempting to get Jorsch under control and in the restraint chair, he spat in the face of one of the officers and started screaming that he was going to kill everyone in the hospital.
Even after Mountain Home police arrived, Jorsch continued to make death threats. At one point, he was alleged to have said that when he got out of jail he would “come back and kill everyone in the hospital.”
TANTRUM TWO
Jorsch repeated his behavior at the hospital in late August last year when he was being placed on a 72-hour hold at Baxter Health. When hospital staff told him they would have to take his cellphone, Jorsch became agitated and started screaming and making threats.
TANTRUM THREE
Jorsch threw a third tantrum while locked up in the Baxter County Detention Center.
In late January, Jorsch was reported to have flooded his cell and other areas of the jail after “acting aggressively and making threats” through the night.
Jail staff managed to shut the water supply off to Jorsch’s cell and began the process of cleaning up.
About 11 inmates had to be moved to the multipurpose room because of the flooding. The cleanup took more than an hour to complete.
Jorsch was also reported to have vowed to repeat the flooding incident. According to the probable cause affidavit, Jorsch is said to have told jail staff, “this is just the beginning” and that “every time you guys come on shift this is going to happen.”
Members of Jorsch’s immediately family, including his father, have also run afoul of the law. Christopher Jorsch, Sr., has had criminal charges filed against him in Baxter, Benton, Faulkner and Fulton counties.
A majority of the cases opened on Jorsch are drug-related, but he has also been charged with breaking or entering, theft by receiving and having possession of contraband items in the Baxter County jail.
A new case is expected to be opened on Jorsch.
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