Hutch Post

HUTCHINSON – A 27-year-old Hutchinson man who had been under supervision for failing to register as a sex offender in 2012, and also the conviction for indecent liberties with a child for a case that goes back to 2008, was ordered to prison Thursday for violation of his community corrections.

Kenneth Alan Socha had been arrested again for failing to register as a sex offender, bonded out but then failed to report to his corrections officer, leading to him being listed as an absconder. The failure to register allegedly occurred in January. Socha will be arraigned on that charge next month.

Judge Joe McCarville then found Socha had violated his corrections and because he failed to report to his corrections officer decided they couldn’t do anymore for him and ordered the 58-month sentence in the two earlier cases be served. He noted that the defendant had five previous corrections violations.

Socha also still has a drug case pending with charges that includes possession of methamphetamine, possession of marijuana, possession of synthetic marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. That case is still pending a jury trial.