A 25-year-old Hutchinson man, convicted and sentenced to 96-months in prison for kidnapping and aggravated burglary after holding a McPherson family against their will, still faces additional charges here in Reno County.

Andre Chatham has a case still pending for a forgery case going back to 2009. The hearing on this case is set for April 24, and he has a charge of forgery. Making a false writing, and theft of services. He apparently had signed some papers using the name of someone else. This occurring on March 9, 2009.

He also has a charge of trafficking on contraband in a correctional institution. This has to do with bringing contraband into the Hutchinson Correctional Facility on July 16, of last year. The contraband being marijuana.

Prison officials say that he had visited with someone at the central unit facility and was on his way back to his cell. As is procedure, the inmates are patted down in what they call the shakedown room. One officer says he noticed something unusual with one of his boots. It apparently had a slit and inside were two rubber balloons which allegedly contained the drugs.

Its still awaiting trial before Judge Trish Rose.

Chatham was convicted in a case in McPherson where he along with Michael Darnell Jackson allegedly broke into a McPherson home restraining four adults inside and then taking one of the men to an ATM where he was forced to empty his bank account.

Chatham and Jackson were captured later in the afternoon in two separate traffic stops here in Hutchinson.

Jackson was acquitted of all charges, while a different jury convicted Chatham.

Chatham was on parole for a 2003 conviction of aggravated robbery, and theft for another McPherson County case and had been released from prison in July of 2009, the same month as these crimes.