A 36-year-old Hutchinson man with a lengthy criminal history and with two cases pending in Reno County District Court is back in jail with a bond of 225-thousand, 250-dollars. According to the Reno County jail log, Joshua Rund is jailed for three counts of Direct Contempt, and failing to appear.

Rund was earlier arrested on a 40-thousand dollar bench warrant for failing to show in court, but his bonding agent told the judge it was her fault he didn’t appear in court because she gave him the wrong date. Magistrate Judge Randy McEwen lowered the bond at that time from the 40-thousand to the original 29-thousand, 500-dollars. That was back in September.

Last week during a waiver-status docket, Deputy District Attorney Tom Stanton asked that he be taken to Court Services to be given a drug test. Rund told the judge that he was scheduled for one on Friday, but the judge ordered he do it anyway, that day. He apparently failed to do what the judge asked and warrants were then issued.

Rund had been arrested on September 6, for charges of criminal possession of a firearm, possession of methamphetamine, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Also arrested was 32-year-old Ellen Rund on charges of possession of methamphetamine, possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. She is free on Bond.

The two had apparently gotten a room at 2605 East 4th, but were arrested in the 1100 block of East 11th.

Rund has a fairly substantial criminal history with convictions for manufacture of methamphetamine, possession of ephedrine, drug paraphernalia, two previous convictions for criminal possession of a firearm in cases from 2002 and 2003. .

That means a hearing in this case will be scheduled in the near future.