Man charged after high-speed chase bound over for trial
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — A 23-year-old Hutchinson man who was critically injured after he crashed his motorcycle during a high-speed chase was in court Wednesday for a preliminary hearing.
Twenty-three-year-old Antonio Cordero is charged with possession of methamphetamine, possession of marijuana with a prior conviction, felony flee and elude, possession of personal use drug paraphernalia, driving under the influence of alcohol and no valid driver’s license.
He was allegedly on the motorcycle when police tried to stop him in the 400 block of North Adams for a traffic violation. He took off north on Adams and the chase continued to the Countryside Park area where Cordero crashed his bike. He was taken to the ICU unit of Hutchinson Regional Medical Center.
The chase started around 4 a.m. on July 13, 2014, and lasted only a few minutes.
Judge Joe McCarville found there was enough evidence presented by the state to send the case to trial. He’ll be arraigned on the charges early next month.
Cordero was earlier sentenced to nearly three years in prison after he entered a plea to charges of possession of cocaine, possession of marijuana with intent to sell or distribute, possession of drug paraphernalia with intent to package, and two counts of no drug tax stamp. That case going back to Dec. 29, 2011. He is currently serving that sentence.
Hutch man who turned down plea agreement scheduled for hearing
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — After a Hutchinson man was arrested on drug distribution charges back on Oct. 28, 2014, he turned down a plea, the case is now scheduled for a preliminary hearing.
Jesse Aich is charged with possession of methamphetamine with intent to sell, possession of drug paraphernalia with intent to package, possession of three other drugs, hydrocodone, oxycodone and morphine as well as a final count of personal use drug paraphernalia.
The case started with a search warrant served on his residence where he apparently lived in a basement bedroom. Inside that room, law enforcement allegedly found a baggie that contained a crystal substance, a baggie containing a powder substance, a digital scale with white residue, new packaging materials, used baggies with residue, two 100-count boxes of syringes, glass pipes with burnt residue they say was used to smoke meth, several types of pills and over a $1,000 in cash.
Aich is no stranger to law enforcement with convictions for criminal damage, burglary, domestic battery, forgery, drugs, obstruction, alcohol-related charges and theft. Some of the crimes occurred here, but others occurred in Kingman and Ford counties.
The hearing Thursday is in front of Judge Joe McCarville, however as always, all hearings are subject to change.
Hutchinson man busted for stealing a vehicle by force formally charged
Ricky Smith Jr.
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The man arrested after he allegedly carjacked a woman’s car early Thursday morning was before District Judge Tim Chambers Wednesday for the formal reading of charges.
The state has filed charges against 39-year-old Ricky Ray Smith Jr. for robbery, felony flee and elude, driving while suspended and felony criminal damage to property.
Smith is alleged to have forcibly removed a local woman from her vehicle then taking off. That led to law enforcement looking for the vehicle, which was eventually spotted in South Hutchinson. Smith is alleged to have led law enforcement on a high-speed chase into the county, where eventually he was captured.
During the court hearing, there wasn’t even any mention of bond, which is set at $12,250.
With the reading of formal charges, his case will now move to a waiver-status docket.
Ex-con formally charged with aggravated robbery
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The man arrested for allegedly robbing LoanMax Title Loans on May 4 was back in court Wednesday for the formal reading of the charge against him.
Twenty-nine-year-old Jerry Allen Anderson Jr. is now charged with aggravated robbery after he allegedly walked into the business and demanded money at gun point. He got away with an undetermined amount of cash and left in a black four-door automobile which police found.
Anderson was paroled back in January for another conviction of aggravated robbery from 2007, but also a conviction for felony flee and elude. Both convictions from separate incidents are out of Leavenworth County.
His bond was left at $25,000 and Judge Tim Chambers set the case for a future waiver-status docket.