Hearing for man charged with injuring infant child scheduled for Tuesday
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The preliminary hearing in a case involving an injured child, which got started a couple of weeks ago, was supposed to resume last Wednesday, but the defense requested a continuance to review some video in the case they apparently had not seen.
So, Magistrate Judge Randy McEwen rescheduled the hearing for Alexis Silva for Tuesday. The state is expected to call one more witness when the preliminary hearing resumes.
Silva is charged with reckless aggravated battery as well a two alternate counts of abuse of a child. The theory for the first abuse count includes shaking of the child. The second includes cruel or inhuman corporal punishment. Assuming the case gets all the way to a jury trial, the jury would have to decide which one of the three charges he’s guilty of, or find him not guilty of anything.
The injuries to the child, according to doctors, consisted of a fracture to the left leg of the 3 month old, but also other injuries that included bruising on both cheeks, fractured ribs and retinal hemorrhaging in one eye which they say would indicate possible shaking of the child.
The crimes charged against Silva are alleged to have occurred sometime between August and October of last year.
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Hearing for Hutch man in child sexual abuse case scheduled for Tuesday
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — A 59-year-old Hutchinson man arrested back on May 29, by Reno County Sheriff’s Detectives for a warrant in a child sex case is scheduled to be in court Tuesday for a preliminary hearing. 
Harold Dryden is charged with two counts of electronic solicitation of a child 14 to 16 years of age, two counts of indecent liberties with a child in the same age range. Dryden is also charged with sexual exploitation of a child for having possession of a visual depiction of a child under 18.
Dryden was a mentor at Victory Village in eastern Reno County and the crimes involve a child who was here from Colorado. The time frame for the crimes occurring between May of 2010 and January of 2012.
The alleged crimes were not reported until last year which began the investigation by detectives with the sheriff’s office. District Attorney Keith Schroeder says he got the final reports in the case early in May and filed the charges on May 15, which led to the arrest.
Dryden is free on a $50,000, bond.
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Man convicted of aggravated robbery sentenced Monday
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The man who entered a plea to a charge of aggravated robbery involving the attempted theft by force of a local recruiters backpack with a government laptop computer inside was sentenced Monday morning to one year, six months in prison.
The case against Jose Vasquez goes back to Feb. 7, when a local recruiter apparently went into the McDonald’s at 4th & Walnut to meet a potential female recruit. Sgt. Stephen Casper says he waited at the restaurant for about 10-15 minutes and the female was a no show, so he sent a text to her and left. She sent a text back saying she had been in the restroom the whole time, so he came back and parked along Walnut just east of the restaurant. As he was exiting his vehicle, he placed the strap of the backpack containing an army computer over his left shoulder. It was then that a man and woman approached him, later identified as Vasquez and Moriah Gandolph. Vasquez is accused of demanding the bag and tried to grab it. Casper then kneed Vasquez in the upper thigh where he then fell to the ground. The recruiter then left the area and made a police report.
The 25-year-old Gandolph is alleged to have been the one who set the recruiter up, saying she wanted to join the military. She is facing trial for an attempted robbery charge and conspiracy to commit robbery which was added by the state at the end of her preliminary hearing.
She is awaiting trial in front of Judge Tim Chambers.