HUTCHINSON, Kan. — We now have a preliminary hearing date set for a 23-year-old man charged in a child sex case.

Judge Joe McCarville set a hearing date of Aug. 18, to hear testimony against Tanner Ward charged with two counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, aggravated burglary and criminal threat.

The charges involving a child 14 to 16 years of age are alleged to have occurred on two dates, Jan. 9 and again on Jan. 11.

The aggravated burglary is alleged to have occurred on June 23 where he allegedly went into a home in the 100 block of East 5th with what the state says was to intimidate a victim or a sexually motivated crime.

The final charge of criminal threat is alleged to have occurred on Feb. 15, 2016, where he allegedly threatened to cut another person’s head off.

He has another case also pending involving burglary where he allegedly stole some copper pipes from the construction site at the Hutchinson Sports Arena, then took the pipes to Midwest Iron and Metal and sold them for cash. In doing so, he apparently signed papers saying the items were his.