Lutz
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — An offer by the state to drop two pending cases against a man if he stipulate to violating his community corrections in three others was rejected by the defendant.
Part of that agreement with Scott Lutz would be that he serve over 18 years in prison for those other three cases. Lutz made a brief court appearance Wednesday where the defense made it know that he wasn’t accepting the states offer.
That means he will still face a preliminary hearing on the two new cases as well as the possibility that his corrections will be revoked the other three.
Lutz is charged with two alternate counts of felony flee and elude and misdemeanor theft. This case goes back to Oct. 8, when he led law enforcement on a high-speed chase which reached speeds of over 100 miles per hour. It was called off after Lutz passed a school bus and there was a concern on the part of law enforcement for public safety. He was last seen around 108th and Halstead in extreme northeast Reno County. He was then thought to be in Ellsworth County, putting schools there on alert the next day.
On Oct. 12, Hutchinson police got information that Lutz was hiding in an attic of a residence located at 415 East B. Officers responded to the home and established verbal contact with him, but he refused to comply and allegedly set a small fire in the attic. With the assistance of the Hutchinson Fire Department and the Reno County Sheriff’s Office, officers gained access to the attic and placed Lutz into custody without incident. Family members say he may have been trying to commit suicide.
In that case, he’s charged with aggravated arson, interference with law enforcement and battery of a law enforcement officer.
Bond in the arson case is set at $172,500 and a preliminary hearing for both of those cases has been set for next Monday.
He also has a corrections violation hearing on Friday for the previous convictions of obstruction, unlawful manufacturing or attempting to manufacture meth, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of ephedrine, robbery and criminal damage to property. That hearing will be in front of Judge Trish Rose.