Parole for a Baxter County man who was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2021 has been approved.
Thirty-nine-year-old Jason Michael Biddle was approved by the state parole board following a hearing on August 11.
Biddle, who has had criminal cases opened on him in Baxter and Marion Counties for 16 years, had been denied parole for a year after a hearing on August 5, 2024.
Biddle was an inmate in the Texarkana Work Release Center at the time of his parole.
The legal system used almost every tool available in handling Biddle’s many cases, most of which have been drug related.
He has been sent to prison, put on probation, spent time in the Baxter County Detention Center, has been committed to one of the Community Correction Centers in the state and into addiction treatment programs.
At one point, Biddle was ordered into the 14th Judicial District Drug Court Program. He did not complete the program and failed to abide by a requirement that if he left the program, he would report immediately to the county jail.
Instead, Biddle remained free until 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.
Court records show that Biddle faced charges – either in Baxter or Marion Counties – in cases filed in 2005, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2021.
Biddle has also had vehicles and cash seized in forfeiture actions filed against him stemming from his drug activity.
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