A 29-year-old Hutchinson man who was found competent after being sent to Larned then decided he wanted to withdraw his plea. That was denied Friday by Judge Joe McCarville.

Joshua Bietka entered pleas to numerous criminal cases as an agreement with the state and agreed to consecutive sentences, but then could have been granted community corrections.

With that agreement, he would assist the drug enforcement unit with other criminal cases under investigation. Apparently he failed to do so when released from jail. According to statements made in court, he was supposed to contact the drug unit and his attorney which the state says he failed to do. Deputy District Attorney Tom Stanton told the judge that he went and used methamphetamine again and was selling drugs to abscond. Stanton called him a flight risk and a danger to the community.

Bietka admitted he used meth and is a drug attic, but denies he sold drugs. He told the judge he was scared for his life because he owed money to the same people that went after Kayla Salyer-Rodriquez.

But, Judge Joe McCarville didn’t buy it. He says that he bargained for the sentence and at the time it looked like a good deal, but now, not so much. Instead of getting community corrections, he’ll serve 18-years, 10-months in prison. That after the state agreed to somewhat of a break. He could have been looking at 24-years or 292-months.

Bietka had entered the pleas as charged in each case, the most recent being felony interference with law enforcement and battery of a law enforcement officer. This after he apparently resisted being taken into custody on a number of warrants back on February 23.

In one of two cases where he failed to appear, he was convicted of aggravated assault, when a Hutchinson woman says she was in fear of her safety when he allegedly came at her with a vehicle. That allegedly occurring on October 8, of last year.

The other case, it involved him allegedly being in possession of methamphetamine. In this case, a South Hutchinson Police Officer saw him in the lobby of the Trails West Motel and knew he had an outstanding warrant. After the officer confirmed the warrant, he was arrested and in one of his pockets was clear bag with a white crystal substance that tested positive for meth. It was allegedly around a gram.

Bietka and Lisa Teeters were arrested back on December 21, of last year for a meth distribution case occurring at the same South Hutchinson Motel.

And then there is the earlier case where he was allegedly caught selling meth in October of last year at a car wash across from K-Mart on East 30th in Hutchinson.

He entered pleas to two counts of possession of meth with intent to sell, one being within a thousand feet of a school, two counts of possession of methamphetamine, conspiracy to distribute meth, two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia with intent to package, two counts of no tax stamp, possession of Hydrocodone, misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia, aggravated assault, interference with law enforcement, and misdemeanor battery of a law enforcement officer.

Again, he will serve 18-years, 10-months in prison.