HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The state has formally charged a 34-year-old man arrested after a domestic incident just days after he held police at bay for nearly six-hour on Christmas Eve.
Charles Mendenhall III was arrested on Jan.10, and now faces charges of aggravated battery, aggravated burglary, interference with law enforcement, violation of a protection from abuse order, criminal restraints and battery of Hutchinson Police Officer Josh Long.
The latest case comes after he allegedly broke a window to enter a home at 707 Pierce and then attacked the female victim. She at some point tried to leave the home, but he then pulled her back inside and pinned her to the floor. Police came and he then struggled with them to the point he had to be tased and was finally taken into custody with him allegedly battering an officer during the struggle.
Mendenhall is already facing a charge of kidnapping, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, criminal discharge of a firearm and criminal threat and two counts of aggravated endangerment of a child for the incident on Christmas Eve at that same home on Pierce.
He’s jailed on a $100,000 bond and the latest case will also be placed on a future waiver-status docket. His other case is already scheduled for Jan. 27 in front of Judge Joe McCarville.