Christian Blake Sisk was back in Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday where he was sentenced to 12 additional years in prison after pleading no contest to charges in four active criminal cases.
In addition, Sisk was ordered to pay restitution of slightly more than $10,000 to the victims in the cases.
The 26-year-old Sisk, who is an inmate in the North Central Unit of the state prison system at Calico Rock on an earlier conviction, has been charged with various crimes in at least a dozen criminal cases dating back to 2010 when he was a teenager.
Sisk was charged in two active cases filed this year, including breaking into a downstairs apartment at a land company office in Henderson in February. A crossbow, hunting knives and clothing valued at about $1,200 were taken. Entry to the apartment was gained using a hammer to break off the doorknob.
In the second case, Sisk faced charges of entering a number of vehicles where cash, credit cards and other items were reported stolen. In addition, Sisk is alleged to have been involved in several breaking-and-entering type crimes. Investigators were able to tie Sisk to some of the crimes through video surveillance footage.
In the 2018 charges filed against him, Sisk was linked to a co-defendant, Bethany Marshall, identified in court records as Sisk’s girlfriend.
In 2017, Sisk was charged with multiple break-ins and the theft of a number of items, including a 2015 pickup truck valued at about $50,000 taken from Cranfield Marina in mid-June. The owner of the truck was able to locate it in the parking lot of a Springfield business through a GPS tracking service installed in the vehicle. Springfield police set up a watch on the parked vehicle and eventually saw Sisk walk up to the truck. When police began to question him, Sisk is reported to have fled. Police apprehended him as he ran into a room at a nearby motel.
Sisk also faces charges stemming from the theft of a riverboat with its 20-horsepower motor and a trailer from a location in Baxter County in mid-May last year. The items were valued at almost $10,000. The boat was eventually located at a residence on Dolph Road in Izard County.
Baxter County Sheriff’s Office investigators were able to recover the boat and return it to its rightful owner.
In questioning one of the residents of the Izard County residence who was in the Izard County jail on unrelated charges, Baxter County investigators were told Sisk — a relative of the resident — had brought the boat, motor and trailer to the relative’s home.
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