Four teens arrested in association with stolen weapons
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Three of four teens arrested by police for allegedly being involved with stolen weapons made first appearances Friday where they were told of the potential charges and bonds were set
19-year-old Javiar Edwin Garcia, 18-year-old Drake Ran Lindsay, 17-year-old Dayton Micheal Justus and 18-year-old Zachary Curtis Cox were all arrested on charges associated with the theft of these weapons. The guns were taken from a family member of one of the suspects and included several weapons including shotguns, rifles and handguns.
Lindsay and Justus were arrested for the theft of the firearms, theft, and criminal damage to property. The other two were arrested for being in possession of stolen firearms. The police bulletin also indicates that Lindsay may have also stolen food items from a local convenience store.
The three made the appearances in front of Magistrate Judge Randy McEwen, while the 17-year-old will appear in juvenile court.
In court Friday morning, Garcia told the judge he didn’t know the weapons were stolen, while the state indicated that he was the one trying to arrange for them to be sold.
Bond for Lindsay was left $2,250, while the bond for the two is set at $500 each. Garcia had bonded as of late afternoon Friday.
Hutch man sentenced for battery of jail guards and drugs
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — A 36-year-old Hutchinson man convicted crimes from 2013 was sentenced Friday to four years in prison.
The state had requested the presumptive sentence for Jeremy Johnson of nearly 24 years in prison, but Judge Trish Rose granted a departure at the request of the defense.
The case had to do with two counts of aggravated battery of a law enforcement officer and one count of battery of a law enforcement officer for an incident inside the Reno County Jail that resulted in an officer getting injured. The alleged incident occurring back on July 18, 2013.
The other case against Johnson involved Hutchinson Police Officer Lance Hirt in April of 2013. Johnson was reportedly acting bizarre according to witnesses. A small plastic baggy that field tested positive for meth was found where he had been. A blue coat he was wearing apparently had two metal pipes with burnt marijuana residue and two q-tips with meth residue.
He was also allegedly driving a maroon Mercury Marquis which was also located at the scene. It was allegedly stolen from Wichita.
Johnson is no stranger to the court system with prior convictions that go back to 2002 where he was convicted of being in possession of precursors for making meth such as ephedrine. But other convictions include forgery, making false writing, possession of drug paraphernalia, theft, obstruction, attempted flee and elude, driving while suspended and reckless driving.
State drops adult charges in indecent liberties case
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — A case against a man who is apparently in the country illegally has been dismissed in adult court and refiled in juvenile court after the state was able to obtain a birth certificate showing that Jesus Martinez-Rubio was under 18 at the time of the alleged crime of aggravated indecent liberties with a child.
The case against him goes back to December of 2009 when the alleged victim was fifteen. The defendant and the victim had a child together, but he apparently lied to her family over a similar case in Rice County and about other things, which led to them reporting the alleged crime here.
There had been some question of his age and the state had planned on calling an agent with Homeland Security to testify in the case over the defendant’s age, which has been in question. That was no longer required after the state learned of the defendants age. He was apparently 17-years-old at the time of the crimes.
There was a warrant signed by Judge Joe McCarville to keep him in the Reno County jail until the juvenile case has run its course. There is apparently an immigration hold on the defendant because of him being in the U.S. illegally.
So, the case now that its being refiled as a juvenile matter will be in front of Judge Patty Macke-Dick.