GIRARD, Kan. (AP) One of two men who escaped from a southeast Kansas county jail has agreed to a plea deal.
The Pittsburg Morning Sun reports that 27-year-old Steven Ray Barnes pleaded no contest Tuesday to aggravated escape from custody and two unrelated aggravated battery counts. As part of the agreement, charges of aggravated intimidation of a witness, possession of amphetamines and obstruction of official duty were dropped. He faces a 10 year prison term.
One of the aggravated battery charges stems from a 2014 attack that left a Pittsburg State University with a broken jaw. Then in April, Barnes and another inmate scaled a fence at the Crawford County jail’s outdoor recreation area. The other battery count stems from an attack last month that left another inmate with a collapsed lung.
