A 21-year-old Hutchinson man who was ordered to Larned State Hospital for a mental evaluation after he ran from a courtroom has now been ordered to prison for 30-months, the original sentence.

Jordon Thomas was in court on a Community Corrections violation for convictions in two cases. The state was asking that his corrections be revoked when the judge ordered the evaluation and he then took off, but was quickly captured. That was on September 16, of last year. Thomas has since been charged with aggravated escape from custody for that incident.

But, On Wednesday, the state was able to convince Judge Tim Chambers that the corrections should be terminated and he should serve the 30-months in prison.

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 against on November 30, of 2010. The criminal threat case was ordered consecutive to the 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. He had entered no contest pleas to possession of marijuana with intent to sell, possession of drug paraphernalia with intent to distribute drugs, no tax stamp, misdemeanor battery, and endangering a child. The state dropped an alternate count of battery.

Thomas along with his girlfriend at the time are alleged to have gotten into a Hutchinson man at a home in the 100 block of East Carpenter back on December 9, 2008. He was then spotted at the Burger King on East 4th, and was stopped by police. Officials allege he had as much as 291-grams of marijuana as well as a black electronic scale in the vehicle.

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.

21-year-old Leonardo Joseph Velázquez-Vieyra an evidentiary hearing for violating his corrections involving the sale of drugs and the shooting of Thomas. He was granted 18-months community corrections after he entered a plea to a lesser case of aggravated battery.

He was recently charged in four news cases involving the sale of marijuana.