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Hutch man serving time for kidnapping and burglary accused of sneaking pot into prison

A 25-year-old Hutchinson man, convicted and sentenced to 96-months in prison for kidnapping and aggravated burglary after holding a McPherson family against their will, is still facing a charged of trafficking on contraband in a correctional institution.

Andre Chatham is alleged to have been involved with bringing contraband into the Hutchinson Correctional Facility on July 16, of this year. The contraband being marijuana.

He had been scheduled for a preliminary hearing on Monday, but that was continued until Wednesday November 16.

Chatham was charged in the McPherson case along with Michael Darnell Jackson for breaking into a McPherson home restraining four adults inside and then taking one of the men to an ATM where he was forced to empty his bank account.

Chatham and Jackson were captured later in the afternoon in two separate traffic stops by Hutchinson police, one at 9th & Keast, and one at 17th & Halsey.

Jackson was acquitted of all charges, while a different jury convicted Chatham.

Chatham was on parole for a 2003 conviction of aggravated robbery, and theft for another McPherson County case and had been released from prison in July of 2009, the same month as these crimes.

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