A Texas man has been arrested for stealing American flags from homes in Lexington.

Lexington Police Chief Terrence Green said that an arrest has been made in the cases involving flags stolen from yards and outside of homes in a neighborhood off of Ginny Lane.

On the evening of Wednesday, July 14, a resident of the Wellesley neighborhood called stating that he believed that the subject seen on shared security footage was walking in the neighborhood. Officers searched the area and later found Christopher Lee Sisney, 37, of Houston, Texas, near the neighborhood entrance.

During an interview with officers, Christopher Sisney told them that he was staying with friends who live in Wellesley and then confessed to stealing the American flags and yard decorations from homes and yards in the neighborhood.

When asked why he had stolen the flags, Christopher Sisney stated that he wasn’t really sure and did so while heavily intoxicated.

He stated that he had no memory of where he put the flags other than throwing them in the woods.

This arrest stems from a series of incident reports that had been taken earlier where officers responded to numerous thefts that occurred in the neighborhood.

Eight American flags, along with a decorative yard flag, had been stolen with the first incident happening on June 25, and the last incidents happening on July 12.

Christopher Sisney has been charged with seven counts of Petit Larceny and he was being held at the Lexington County Detention Center. He was given a bond of $1,400 for these charges.