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HUTCHINSON — A Kansas man convicted on charges associated with a September high-speed chase in Reno County was sentenced to two years, two months in jail on Monday

Victor Gutierrez, 26, Dodge City, entered pleas to criminal possession of a firearm and felony flee and elude. The state dismissed a charge of possession of cocaine.

Officials say the chase started because law enforcement was watching for him in connection with a murder in Ford County.

In addition to the murder charge, Gutierrez is also charged with aggravated endangerment of a child, criminal possession of a firearm by a felon and defacing identification marks of a firearm.

The charges in Ford County come after police found 30-year-old Natasha Pruitt dead of a gunshot wound.

Gutierrez is being returned to Ford County to face the additional charge.