Jason Michael Biddle
Jason Michael Biddle has had criminal cases opened against him in Baxter and Marion Counties for the past 16 years.
The 34-year-old Biddles’ latest arrest came on April 19.
During a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday, Biddle pled guilty to the drug-related charges in two of his new Baxter County cases and was sentenced to 15 years in prison
According to the probable cause affidavit, officers from the 14th Judicial District Drug Task Force, the U.S. Marshalls Service, the Baxter County Sheriffs office and the Arkansas State Police, along with the K-9 tracking team from the state prison in Calico Rock, converged on a residence along Highway 62 East in Henderson in mid-April.
Biddle, who was wanted on parole violation warrants, was located in the residence and taken into custody.
According to the probable cause affidavit, the Henderson residence is the home of Nicholas Weeks and Tessie Churchman both of whom have criminal histories of their own.
Criminal cases have been opened against Weeks since 2007 and Churchmans first case was set up in 2005.
The charges against Weeks and Churchman have been mainly drug related.
A fourth person in the residence, Tyler Cole Hutton, was also arrested on probation violation warrants. Hutton was said to have tried to escape out the back door. Huttons first criminal case was opened in 2012. He has an active case in Baxter County Circuit Court in which he is charged with domestic battery and four counts of aggravated assault. Hutton is reported to have a history of domestic abuse dating back to 2012.
Hutton most recent arrest stemmed from an altercation with a female on Jan. 6. According to the probable cause affidavit, there were several children present when the incident occurred. The January arrest has resulted in a revocation petition begin filed in a 2018 domestic battery case in which Hutton was convicted and put on probation for 72 months.
Biddle has been charged — either in Baxter or Marion Counties — in cases filed in 2005, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2018, 2020 and this year.
The legal system had used almost every tool available in handling the 34-year-old Biddles many cases, most of which have been drug-related. He has been put on probation, sent to prison, spent time in the Baxter County jail, been committed to one of the Community Correction Centers in the state and to Care Center Ministries in Mountain Home to undergo addiction treatment.
He has also lost vehicles and money in forfeiture actions filed against him stemming from his drug activity.
At one point, Biddle was ordered into the 14th Judicial District Drug Court Program. It is normal for a person going into Drug Court to undergo a 90-day intensive addiction treatment program in one of the Community Correction Centers in the state, but Biddle was permitted to enter Care Center Ministries in Mountain Home.
He walked away from his latest stay in Care Center Ministries and failed to abide by a requirement that if he left the program, he would report immediately to the Baxter County jail.
Instead, Biddle remained free and was arrested in the early morning hours of October 10, 2018 on a Marion County road where he had allegedly taken a female to have sex, according to the probable cause affidavit.
Drugs and drug paraphernalia were found in the vehicle.
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