Salisbury Man Faces Fentanyl, Theft, Other Charges

CONCORD, NH — A local man, with a number of previous arrest incidents, is in trouble with police again after alleged incidents in September, August, and May, according to arrest reports and court documents. Christopher L. Sieradski, 33, of South Road in Salisbury, was arrested at 10:40 p.m. on Sept. 16, 2016, and charged with possession of controlled drug-heroin, resisting arrest or detention, and a bench warrant from Aug. 22, 2016, out of Concord District Court for resisting arrest. The next day, he also charged with theft by unauthorized taking or transfer from an alleged incident in May.

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According to police, on Sept. 16, 2016, an officer was sent to Concord Hospital to interview an injured party who claimed he was stabbed on Liberty Street near Grappone Park while other officers were sent to the scene to investigate the alleged assault. When they arrived, the spoke with a man who reportedly identified himself as “Christopher Malt---” but others at the scene said that wasn’t his real name. One of the officers took a look at previous booking photos and determined that the man was allegedly giving a false name. The man then reportedly identified himself with his real name – Christopher Sieradski.

Officers interviewed him while the reporting officer found out that he had an active warrant. While the warrants were confirmed, Sieradski reportedly overheard the radio traffic and allegedly turned around and took off running.

Sieradski was told to stop but he allegedly continued running. Officers caught up with Sieradski and brought him to the ground, according to the report, and he was placed into a cruiser.

During an inventory search, police allegedly found a plastic bag of a brown substance inside a pack of cigarettes, according to a court affidavit. Sieradski allegedly stated it was heroin but it field tested negative but was presumed to be fentanyl, according to the reporting officer, due to previous interaction with Sieradski, including an arrest for possession of the drug, as well as other charges, in May, and a felony drug charge court case which he reportedly failed to appear at in April.

Sieradski was arrested and held without bail.

Theft incident

According to a court affidavit filed in late May, officers were sent to Walmart at just before 4 p.m. on May 6, 2016, for a past tense theft of a person stealing multiple electronic items and then fleeing to a waiting vehicle on Old Loudon Road behind the Ruby Tuesday restaurant. A second employee alleged that the man got into a beige colored Chevrolet Cavalier. The reporting employee alleged that the man had been in the store about two and half hours before, walked through a number of the departments in the store, and then left.

Before arriving at Walmart, another call came in from a resident on Ladybug Lane off Portsmouth Street reporting a suspicious activity, specifically people “dumping electronic items out of a vehicle into the woods,” according to the affidavit. The caller stated there were three people in the vehicle and one walked into the woods behind a nearby home and dumped clothing and sunglasses there.

Another officer went to the location and recovered the clothes, which were all reportedly worn by the person casing Walmart, according to surveillance video. The officer also recovered many USB drives and a hard drive unit, which were out of their packages. They were later returned to Walmart.

About two hours later, the Cavalier reportedly returned to Lady Bug Drive, with a man and woman inside of the vehicle, and the caller gave police the registration of the vehicle. The owner of the vehicle was a woman who lived in an apartment at Regency Hill Estates on East Side Drive and the officer went to the home to see if he could catch up with the owner.

The woman stated that she lent her vehicle to a friend named “Jess” and that she was out with friends but didn’t know where they went. She reportedly stated one of the people who was with Jess earlier was Sieradski, who was in her living room.

Sieradski then spoke to the officer and allegedly stated that they went to 7-Eleven to get some food but denied being anywhere else. The officer asked Sieradski why the vehicle would have been on Lady Bug Lane if they were only at 7-Eleven and he allegedly “became uncomfortable,” according to the affidavit.

“Sieradski told me that he was on Lady Bug Lane because he had heard from a friend of a friend that someone had hidden electronic items in the woods earlier that day,” according to the affidavit.

When asked how he found out this information in such a short window of time, Sieradski allegedly stated, “news travels fast,” but was unable to provide a name of who the person was.

“Oh,” he allegedly stated, “it was just someone I ran into.”

When asked about the items, Sieradski allegedly said that they were gone when he got there and the officer noted in the report that he believed that Sieradski allegedly stole the items from Walmart.

The officer then spoke to Jess and she reportedly stated she didn’t know who was in the vehicle with her and that there were a lot of people milling around the apartment at the time, according to the report.

The officer left and looked up Sieradski’s previous booking photo and a still shot from Walmart and noted that they looked very similar. After receiving video from Walmart, which was clearer than the still image, he was able to confirm that it was Sieradski who stole the items, according to the affidavit.

Three days later, officers were against sent to the East Side Drive apartment for a separate incident and while there, the reporting officer ran into Sieradski again, and pressed him about the Walmart theft incident. Sieradski allegedly denied stealing the items. But after being shown a picture of him exiting Walmart, he allegedly told the officer, “Alright, it’s me, you got me.”

A warrant was issued for his arrest on June 2.