A 23-year-old Hutchinson man who was ordered to prison for 30-months for violating his community corrections then sentenced to 18-months community corrections in a separate case managed to avoid prison a second time.

Jordon Thomas had been ordered a mental evaluation back on September 16, of 2011 and he then took off from Judge Tim Chambers courtroom, but was quickly captured in a shopping center across the street from the courthouse. The state then filed a charge of aggravated escape from custody against him. He entered a plea in that case, was granted 18-months community corrections on a 19-month underlying sentence.

The state filed a motion to revoke his corrections for that case and wanted the sentence ordered executed, while the defense asked for a sanction rather then prison. Judge Trish Rose went on the side of the defense and gave him 60-days in the Reno County Jail, but then he will be back on corrections, however he has to start all over, meaning that once released from jail, the 18-months will start all over again.

Thomas at one time faced charges of criminal threat, stalking, and harassment by phone, but entered a plea to the felony of making a criminal threat and the state dropped the other charges.

He was convicted of harassing a Hutchinson woman on two separate occasions on September 1, and again on November 30, of 2010. The criminal threat case was ordered consecutive to the 2008 marijuana case for a total of 30-months.

In that case, Thomas admitted he was selling marijuana, as well as got into an altercation with a man at a south side Hutchinson home. That was back on December 9, 2008.

You may also remember Thomas as the man who nearly lost his life in a shooting incident back on September 15, 2009. He was wounded in the face, when he and another man arrived at an east side apartment allegedly to rob another man for his drugs. Thomas was shot in the face with a shotgun, and lost his left eye in that exchange.