Parole has been denied again for Jason Michael Biddle, who has had criminal cases opened on him in Baxter and Marion Counties for the past 16 years.
Biddle’s latest parole hearing was held August 8.
The 38-year-old Biddle was given a 15-year sentence after he pled guilty to drug related charges in two of his more recent Baxter County cases.
According to the probable cause affidavit, officers from the 14th Judicial District Drug Task Force, the U.S. Marshall’s service, the Baxter County Sheriff’s 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 2021.
Biddle, who was wanted on parole violation warrants, was located in the residence and taken into custody.
Biddle has been charged — either in Baxter or Marion Counties — in cases filed in 2005, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2021.
The legal system had used almost every tool available in handling Biddle’s 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 (CCM) 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 not unusual for a person going into Drug Court to undergo a 90-day addiction treatment program in one of the Community Correction Centers in the state. Biddle, however, was allowed to stay local by entering CCM in Mountain Home.
He walked away from his latest stay at CCM 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.
In addition to leaving Care Center Ministries and not completing the Drug Court Program, Biddle is also charged in revocation petitions with violating the terms and conditions of his probation in several Baxter County cases and by fleeing from a deputy sheriff prior to his arrest in Marion County and for possessing drugs.
The woman he was with on the Marion County road was also on probation, meaning Biddle was not permitted to associate with her.
Biddle is an inmate at the Texarkana Work Release Center.
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