Found Safe KS - Brixton Sisk, 5, mom, Danielle Banzet posed as social worker and took him from school, may be in danger, Rose Hill, 19 May 2022

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Um, yeah, pick-up by someone not on the list? Nope.

Long ago in a galaxy far away, I worked at Head Start.

Asked for social workers & Juvenile Office employees photo ID and badge, slapped those on the photocopier, and then collected the signature on the Release to Other Party form (not listed on the pick-up list completed at enrollment.) Form counter-signed by me & another colleague, copy of ID & court badge attached.

Even when I knew that person.

Sometimes while a third colleague called the child's known children's services worker to make sure that person knew what was happening.

Wouldn't have happened on my watch.

Thanks, alert Kansas & Oklahoma drivers, thank you so much!


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ROSE HILL, Kan. (KWCH) - A five-year-old boy is back home in Kansas after being kidnapped by his non-custodial parents at a Rose Hill school. You all received the Amber Alert on your phone Thursday night. The incident went on for several hours until the boy was found safe in Oklahoma. His parents are now in jail.

Lt. Phillip Ludwyck with Oklahoma Highway Patrol was there when Brixton Sisk was found.

“Alongside the interstate, late a night, it’s dark. Here are two people who kidnapped a little boy from his school and the little boy himself,” he recalls.

He said they were alerted by officials in Kansas that Danielle banquet and Zachary Sisk were headed to Oklahoma with their son, who they don’t have custody of.

Because the car they were in at that point was a rental with GPS, it didn’t take long to find them.


“Real-time location as to where the vehicle was, and because Kansas had reached out to us, and we had guys in the area, they were within about 10 miles of the location when we got it,” Ludwyck said.

Back here in Kansas, investigators are focused on finding out how this happened.

“Putting together the timeline and the specifics of what happened. I can’t comment on that right now but we’re working through that,” said Police Chief Matthew Neal with the Rose Hill School District Police Department.

Around 2:40 p.m. on Thursday, Banzet went into the Rose Hill Elementary School claiming to be a social worker. She then left with Brixton and got into a car. It was later learned the boy’s father, Zachary Sisk, was the driver.

“We do think that they’ve been planning this for a while and they put quite a lot of thought into this,” said Chief Neal.

Over the course of the next few hours, the couple and their son changed into three different cars before they were found and arrested in Oklahoma. Banzet and Sisk are being held on eight charges in the Noble County Jail in Oklahoma. Those include kidnapping, drugs, and felons in possession of weapons.

OHP found two guns in the car.

“As we had done some more investigation, one of the weapons was a stolen gun, so through this, we’ve recovered a stolen handgun.


As this investigation continues, there’s relief a little boy is safe.

“Hate the fact that it happened, that he went through it, but there’s a happy ending. He’s okay, he’s safe, he’s unharmed, and we’re just so happy for him that he got to go home and sleep in his own bed,” said Neal.

“To return this boy safely, it’s just I can think of so many words. Heartwarming,” said Ludwyck.
 

Danielle Banzet and Zachary Sisk are being held on suspicion of several charges:
  • Abduction
  • loaded gun transport
  • Offender convicted of carrying or possessing firearms
  • Using a firearm or other offensive weapon while committing or attempting to commit a crime
  • knowingly or knowingly possessing a controlled dangerous substance
  • Distributing, possessing, or manufacturing pharmaceutical material, knowing that it will be used to introduce a controlled hazardous substance into the human body
  • Willfully receiving any property that has been stolen, embezzled, obtained by false pretense or dacoity, or by concealment of such property
  • Failed to use child passenger restraint system
Both Banzet and Sisk were previously arrested on April 6 in Sedgwick County, Kansas. Booking records show that Banzett lived in Derby, and Sisk lived in Wichita at the time.

Banzet was booked on suspicion of:

  • weapon carrying criminal
  • Criminal use of weapon, undisclosed circumstances
  • deliver something stimulating, in unknown amounts
  • three counts of illegal possession of a controlled substance; opium; opium
  • use or possession with intent to use drug goods
The case was registered on the basis of suspicion on sis:

  • weapon carrying criminal
  • criminal use of weapons, possession of a firearm by a drug addict
  • Opium, opium, narcotic or stimulant, unknown quantity
  • possession of something stimulating
  • possession of marijuana
  • illegal possession of a controlled substance; opium; opium
  • use or possession with intent to use drug goods
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