A 29-year-old Hutchinson man who entered pleas to numerous criminal cases and faces sentencing, was found incompetent after an evaluation by Horizon’s Mental Health Facility in Hutchinson. Judge Joe McCarvile Friday ordered Joshua Bietka be sent to Larned State Hospital for another 60-day evaluation. But, the problem is there is a 4-month wait for a bed at that facility meaning it may be 6-months before the case comes back to District Court.

Joshua Bietka entered pleas in five cases back on May 1. Then on May 18, the mental evaluation was ordered.

Deputy District Attorney Tom Stanton says he entered the pleas as charged in each case. The most recent was for charges of 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, the sentencing in the case is on hold pending the outcome of the mental evaluation at Larned.