A Hutchinson man who earlier saw his community corrections revoked in a combined two cases was ordered to prison Friday. Leonardo J. Velázquez-Vieyra was then sentenced to prison in two others by Judge Joe McCarville. That means he will serve a total of 60-months in prison, or 5-years.

Velázquez-Vieyra had been on community corrections for convictions of aggravated battery, theft, sale of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia for growing marijuana and no tax stamp and those corrections were revoked. However, he had not been ordered to prison up to this and repeated continuances have kept any decision on that from being made.

But, he was arrested in October of last year on charges of aggravated kidnapping, aggravated battery, aggravated assault and felony theft. He entered “guilty” pleas to aggravated battery, possession of drug proceeds and possession of marijuana with intent to sell from another case which was merged into the battery case. The state dropped all other charges against him.

The aggravated battery case apparently involves the mother of his child and started with a domestic dispute at a local nightclub, where he allegedly held the victim against her will, caused injury with a vehicle, caused her to fear for her safety and allegedly take a vehicle without permission.

Part of his corrections involved the shooting of Jordan Thomas. He and another man had shown up at an east-side Hutchinson apartment where Velázquez-Vieyra was staying, and Thomas was shot in the face with a shotgun. He lost his left eye as a result. Velázquez-Vieyra told the court that he has made up with Thomas and also stated that if given corrections, nothing else would happen and that the judge wouldn’t see him again.

The victim of the battery asked the judge for corrections so that he could help care for their child, but again the judge said “no.”

His attorney, Bonnie Corrado argued for a downward departure which was opposed by the state and rejected by the judge. Judge McCarville told the defendant that he couldn’t find any substantial or compelling reason to depart.

He was given 40-months for the possession of marijuana with intent to sell conviction, 12-months for the aggravated battery and 11-months for possession of drug proceeds. He ran those sentences concurrent to each other for a total of 40-months. But he ran this sentence consecutive to the earlier case which had a sentence of 20-months. That makes the total 60-months in prison.

Velázquez-Vieyra may also have to pay 5-thousand, 635-dollars in restitution.