A Vernal Man Blames Ex For Giving Their 10-Month-Old Baby Cocaine
- Travis Uresk
- Sep 4, 2024
- 4 min read
By Travis Uresk
9/4/24
| Duchesne County | September 3rd, 2024 |
On 6/24/24, Detective Hunter received a Department of Child and Family Services report for investigation on allegations that a child tested positive for illegal drugs.
The allegation in the CANR report stated that a 10-month-old child had a drug test performed per his father, 37-year-old Christopher James Kozisek's wishes, at Intermountain Toxicology in Roosevelt, Utah, and the test results showed the child was positive for cocaine. Christopher reported the allegations to DCSF and identified the child's mother as the perpetrator.
The DCSF caseworker and Detective Hunter met with the mother in Duchesne County around June 25th. The female was very cooperative during the visit and informed them she had already been drug tested due to the ongoing allegations by her ex-boyfriend. She provided them with the results of her drug test, which showed she tested negative for alcohol and any illegal drugs.
The female also showed the detective and the caseworker around her house and provided a sample of her breast milk for testing. She also agreed to a hair follicle test on her baby and said she would pay for it out of her own pocket to verify the original test results.
Later that day, Detective Hunter and the DCSF caseworker met with Christopher in Vernal, Utah. Christopher told them that he had also taken a drug test at the same time as his 10-month-old to show he was negative for cocaine and that the child could not have been exposed while in his care, but the child was in his care for multiple days leading up to the test including the day of the test.
When the detective asked Christopher if he had been positive for any illegal drugs, he stated he tested positive for THC. Detective Hunter requested that Christopher take another drug test the following morning. When the caseworker received those test results, he tested positive for THC and alcohol.
When the child's hair follicle results came back, they tested positive for cocaine.
The mother mentioned to the detective during the first interview when she lived with Christopher in Vernal, he had an ongoing issue with cocaine. She was able to tell Detective Hunter where he hid his cocaine inside his bedroom closet. The female stated since she left, he continued to harass and stalk her. This forced her to get a civil stalking injunction against him.
After receiving all of the drug test results, Detective Hunter was still unable to determine where the baby had been exposed to the cocaine. Still, due to the information gathered from the mother regarding Christopher's cocaine use and his testing positive for THC, he was a person of interest.
In July 2024, Detective Hunter called Christopher and had him come to the Duchesne County Sheriff's Office to speak with him about the case. During the meeting, the detective was going to request that Christopher submit to a hair follicle test, but he declined at that time.
On 8/23/24, the female was at Walmart in Vernal and had called Christopher about meeting her to see their child. Christopher arrived at Walmart, and a domestic incident began. Christopher made entrance into the female's locked car through an open window and climbed inside on top of her, trying to take her cell phone while their child was in the backseat.
The female stated that Christopher began punching himself in the face and told her that he was going to tell the police that she hit him. He then fled the scene before officers arrived. When officers called Christopher to turn himself in, he refused, and a warrant was issued for his arrest.
Based on Christopher’s unwillingness to cooperate with Detective Hunter’s investigation, along with the incident in Vernal, a search warrant was applied for to search his apartment in Vernal for evidence of illegal drugs and paraphernalia. The warrant was approved and was scheduled to be served on 8/27/24.
On the morning of August 27th, Detective Hunter received a text message from Sgt. Johnstun with the Vernal Police Department informed him that Christopher had been arrested during a traffic stop for his active warrant.
Later that day, deputies from the Duchesne County Sheriff's Office and Detective Hunter went to Vernal and executed the search warrant for Christopher's apartment. K9s were used to search for illegal drugs and firearms. Both K9s alerted in several areas inside the bedroom.
Officers began to search the areas the K9s alerted and found four long guns under the bed, a loaded Glock .40 caliber handgun with loaded magazines inside the top dresser drawer, a glass pipe used to smoke illegal drugs, three vials of illegal steroids, and several more rounds of ammunition. A test presumptive drug test was done on the glass pipe, and the results came back positive for methamphetamine.
Christopher was released from the Uintah County Jail on the afternoon of 8/27/24.
Christopher began texting a male who started dating the female at the time. The texts Christopher sent involved threats to find the male and beat him up. There were also derogatory comments made about the female.
Detective Hunter asked dispatch to put an Attempt to Locate (ATL) out for Christopher.
Detective Hunter located Christopher's truck parked in front of his girlfriend's house and knocked on the door, but nobody answered. He asked dispatch to have an officer attempt to contact him later that night.
Christopher continued to harass and stalk the female through texts, violating his stalking injunction, as well as his jail no-contact order.
Officers with the Vernal Police Department told the female not to go back to her residence in Vernal for her own safety due to Christopher's unstable behavior.
Several attempts were made to locate Christopher, and he had continued to elude arrest. He should be considered a threat to the public.
Christopher James Kozisek was arrested and placed in the Duchesne County Jail on or around 9/3/24.
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