A 28-year-old Hutchinson man who is charged with selling drugs twice to confidential informants back in July of last year could face racketeering charges.
Deputy District Attorney Tom Stanton told Judge Tim Chambers that he wants to dismiss all the cases against Matthew Gulick, then file a new case with all the charges in one, but also include charges of racketeering. That crime is something that hasn’t been charged very much locally. That could mean a new preliminary hearing in all the cases.
Gulick was most recently arrested for aggravated Intimidation of a witness or victim and interference with the legal process. He’s alleged to have pulled his vehicle in the way of a witness in one of his other cases, gotten out of the vehicle and began yelling at the witness and allegedly threatened to kill them. This allegedly occurring on Friday February 7. He was also arrested for allegedly being in possession of stolen property.
Gulick is also charged for allegedly selling of methamphetamine on July 24, and the second on July 31, of last year. In both cases, law enforcement used to informants to make the buys. In the first case, he allegedly sold less then a half a gram to the officer, and the second time, it was just over 2 grams. Gulick is also charged with having no tax stamp.
He also has a felony theft case that goes back to July of 2012. He allegedly stole items from K-Mart. Because of prior theft convictions, it is filed as a felony case.
Gulick remains Jailed on a bond of 148-thousand, 500-dollars. Judge Tim Chambers set a status hearing in the case for April 4, to see if the state did dismiss the various cases, then refile a single case with all the charges included.