A man released after serving a decade in prison made it barely a month on parole before Portsmouth Police took him back into custody.
Officers stopped Christopher Erks while he was riding a bicycle near 12th and Lincoln streets around 2:30 a.m. During the stop, police discovered he had an active warrant through the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.
Erks was taken into custody for a parole violation.
He had been released on September 26 after serving approximately 10 years for aggravated robbery, along with additional time imposed for a judicial sanction. He was placed on five years of parole following his release.
That means Erks had been out of prison for just over a month before the new parole violation landed him back in custody.
Court records show Erks has a lengthy criminal history that includes previous charges of robbery, aggravated robbery, burglary, breaking and entering, theft, receiving stolen property, tampering with a coin machine, possession of criminal tools, drug abuse, obstructing official business, falsification and failure to appear.
The latest arrest does not represent a new criminal conviction. Instead, Erks was taken into custody on the parole violation warrant.
