Crisp pleads guilty to burglary

Facing over a dozen years in prison if convicted for his alleged role in the home invasion and rape of a Martin Street woman, a local teen got a jump on serving his time by entering a guilty plea to an earlier burglary.

The defendant, Heath Crisp, 19, entered a guilty plea recently before Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley to the charge of aggravated burglary. He was directed to serve three years in prison for the crime, time he is serving now as he has not been able to make bond in the Martin Street case.

In the case which gave him the three-year sentence, Crisp was charged with breaking into a home on Sunset Point in March 2006. Prosecutors say Crisp and another suspect kicked in the door of the home and made away with over $1,000 worth of items including a PS2 and Xbox gaming system, along with numerous DVDs.

The burglary came eight months before Crisp allegedly took part in a home invasion with five other people of a home on Martin Street in January of this year. On that date Crisp, who was free on bond for his part in the March burglary, was part of a group charged with holding a resident of the house hostage, demanding she give them the whereabouts of a man who owed them money. The woman said she was tied up and later raped by Crisp and fugitive from justice Kinsley Fisk who remains the target of a Midstate manhunt.

Crisp?s plea to the earlier burglary came as his request for a lesser bond in the recently burglary/rape was turned down, meaning Crisp would have remained behind bars unable to make bond anyway even had he not taken the plea agreement.