HUTCHINSON, Kan. — A 30-year-old man who entered “guilty” pleas in five cases as part of a plea agreement with the state was sentenced to prison for some of the cases, and community corrections for others.
Jonathan Payne of Hutchinson will serve just under 5-years in prison (59-months) for the more serious cases. He’s then be placed on community corrections 1-year, six months with an underlying sentence of three years and four months in prison.
Payne was convicted in the most recent case for auto burglary and criminal use of a financial card which occurred back on Feb. 7, of this year. He allegedly broke into a car and stole a Visa Card. He used between $1,000 and $25,000 on the card.
The next case goes back to Feb. 3 where he was convicted of possession of methamphetamine and possession of marijuana, while the state dropped a drug paraphernalia charge.
In the third case, he entered a plea to possession of marijuana with intent to distribute while a charge of possession of drug paraphernalia with intent to distribute was dropped. That case goes back to Oct. 28, 2014.
For the two more serious cases, which included being arrested with his father, 51-year-old Johnny Payne, for cultivation of marijuana, he was convicted on that charge as well as possession of drug paraphernalia. The state dropped a conviction for conspiracy to cultivate marijuana and another paraphernalia charge. Drug Unit Detectives are alleged to have found 12 marijuana plants at the home in the 1500 block of North Monroe. That was in November of 2014.
In the final case, Payne was convicted of distribution of marijuana in a case that goes back to July of 2014. The state dropped the conspiracy to distribute marijuana charge as part of the agreement. The state contends that he conspired to distribute somewhere between 25 and 450 grams of marijuana. The state says the two arranged to distribute the marijuana using a telephone.
The sentences were handed down Friday by District Judge Trish Rose.