After the preliminary hearing for a 25-year-old Hutchinson man Monday accused of aggravated robbery and aggravated burglary, he was bound over for trial.
Patrick McCroy is accused of breaking into a Hutchinson apartment and beating the occupant, wanting items from his apartment.
It started on July 1, when the victim says he heard a loud knock on his apartment door around 11 p-m. He looked through the peep hole in his door and could partially see the head of a man outside the apartment, but couldn’t see exactly who it was, so he cracked open the door to get a better look and it was then that McCroy allegedly forced his way into the apartment and began beating the alleged victim with a stick. He was demanding a television that he claimed belonged to his sister, but also allegedly wanted pills, the victims phone, money, computers and other electronic items.
He says he was beaten at first with the large stick which he described as being 3 and half foot long, then when the stick broke, the defendant allegedly used his fist and beat him some more. The victim then told of having treatment at the hospital after he says he was in immense pain. He says he suffered bruises and scratches from the attack but no permanent injury. He stated that he was able to escape at one point and ran to the neighbors home yelling, “help, I’m being robbed.”
It first thought that McCroy got away with nearly 100-dollars of the victims money, but the victim testified that he later found most of missing money, so the total amount taken was about 10-dollars.
With McCroy being bound over on the two charges, he’ll be arraigned on the charges on April 7.
McCroy is no stranger to the law having been convicted of other felony crimes including criminal possession of a firearm, drugs, burglary and criminal damage to property. He had been paroled in March of last year, but was discharged from those previous crimes back on February 19.