HUTCHINSON, Kan. — A man jailed in the Reno County Correctional Facility for a probation violation for a case from last year and charged in two other cases entered a plea in the two most recent cases Wednesday morning.
Justin Reyna was charged with aggravated battery of a corrections officer, simple battery of another officer and criminal damage, but the state reduced the first charge and he entered pleas to two counts of battery of a corrections officer and the criminal damage count.
It was back on Nov. 24, 2016, while inside the Reno County Correctional Facility that he caused a disturbance causing staff to place him in a restraint chair. During that effort, he apparently spit at a deputy, hitting him in the eye. He also battered another officer and did damage to a sprinkler in the facility.
In the other case, he apparently cut himself with a homemade knife or shank, which was basically a razor blade in a comb. That occurred on Sept. 21, 2016.
As part of the plea, he’ll serve the one-year sentence in the case where he was convicted of aggravated criminal threat and giving a false alarm in a case from March of last year.
Sentencing in the two more recent cases will be on June 30.