On Thanksgiving night, a Sneads Police Officer responded to the Marathon Gas Station on 2022 River Road, after the clerk called about a suspicious male walking around his truck in the parking lot talking to himself. The male subject then lifted his hood and then closed it and was backing out just as the officer arrived the first time.
The Sneads Officer asked if he was ok, and the subject replied he was checking his radiator fluid, and he was leaving. The Sneads officer left when the subject left. Sneads Police received a second call reporting that the clerk found a duffle bag in one of the trash cans where the subject had been parked. The Sneads Officer returned and checked the bag, and it turned out to be a cooler full of ice and beer that was purchased from the Marathon, according to the clerk.
The Sneads Officer turned it over to the clerk and was summoned to another call. As the Sneads Officer had returned from the other call, he saw the subject had returned and parked in the same parking spot. The Sneads Officer once again made contact with subject and this time identified him as ROBERT PAUL CISLAK of BASCOM, FLORIDA. CISLAK advised he had come back to use the bathroom and when the Sneads Officer questioned him about the found cooler, he denied the cooler was his.
He stated he was just trying to get back to Colquitt Georgia which the Sneads Officer learned that is where the vehicle was registered. The Sneads Officer advised Cislak to get on the road back and that he was making the store employees uncomfortable. Cislak left as advised. The Sneads Officer notified the clerk he was staying across the street until she closed at the old Pappy Tom’s. Then ROBERT PAUL CISLAK returned again and when the Sneads Officer confronted him again, he stated he needed gas and had no money. The Sneads Officer bought Cislak gas and he left once more driving a 2001 RED FORD RANGER. By 10:50 pm The Sneads Officer received a call that male subject was on 911 saying someone was hiding under his truck and he was out of breath.
As the Sneads Officer was about to exit River Road on to Highway 90, He immediately recognized ROBERT CISLAK jogging down the middle of the road on his phone jogging west on 90. The Sneads officer tried to make contact again when Cislak began screaming get away from me and running down the middle of Highway 90 as Traffic heading in both directions started coming down the road. The Sneads Officer turned on his lights and tried to keep up with Cislak and keep traffic from running him over. Sneads Officer deployed two unsuccessful taser attempts as Cislak was cutting back and forth from the shoulder back in the road screaming. The Sneads Officer finally caught back up with Cislak by vehicle and deployed his taser a third time which brought Cislak down and led to a brief struggle on the side of Highway 90 between the officer and Cislak before the officer was finally able to handcuff Cislak just as CHATTAHOOCHEE POLICE Arrived to assist.
The Sneads Officer discovered ROBERT CISLAK had a suspended Florida Driver License, and 3 prior suspensions in 2013, 2017, and 2018. ROBERT CISLAK also had left his truck parked in the middle of Highway 90 with the engine running at the intersection of SECTION AVENUE AND HIGHWAY 90 in the westbound lane impeding traffic. ROBERT CISLAK was taken to Jackson Hospital and then transported to the Jackson County Jail with 4 citations, RESISTING ARREST WITHOUT VIOLENCE, DRIVING WHILE LICENSE SUSPENDED OR REVOKED WITH KNOWLEDGE, AND ALSO HABITUAL TRAFFIC OFFENDER. Robert Cislak told authorities later at the hospital he ingested methamphetamine earlier that evening.
THANK YOU TO CHATTAHOOCHEE POLICE DEPARTMENT, JACKSON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE AND JACKSON COUNTY FIRE RESCUE for their assistance during this incident.
