

HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Two of the four young men convicted of being involved in the robbery of a local Kwik Shop were sentenced Friday morning
Nineteen-year-old’s Karl Koenig and Drake Lindsay waived their rights to a preliminary hearing and then entered pleas involving the Kwik Shop robbery as well as the burglary of a smoke shop. They entered pleas to aggravated robbery and conspiracy to commit burglary with all the other charges dropped.
Judge Trish Rose sentenced Lindsay to five years and six months in prison while Koenig received a more harsher sentence of six years and seven months because of past criminal convictions for burglary and criminal damage.
Both men apologized for the crimes and to the victim saying they didn’t mean for her to get hurt.
Kurt Koenig was sentenced last week by Judge Tim Chambers and was given two years, 10-months in prison after he entered a plea to conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery. He was the one who drove the vehicle for the other three and never actually entered the store.
Dakota Ney also entered a plea to conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery is scheduled for sentencing on Aug. 19, in front of Judge Chambers.
The four were involved in the robbery of the Kwik Shop at 43rd & Plum back on Jan. 27.
It was Ney that forced the clerk to open the drawer and give money while the other two stole cigarettes and other items. He is also the one who knocked the victim to the floor, using the taser device on her and kicking her. She still suffers from those injuries today and appeared in court with a walker.
Hutchinson Police Detectives executed two search warrants where they found a large amount of the stolen property from the Kwik Shop robbery and items from the burglary of the smoke shop, which occurred a few days after the robbery on Feb. 1.