HUTCHINSON– A Kansas man convicted on two counts of aggravated assault, two counts of criminal threat and criminal damage was sentenced in Reno County court on Friday.

Judge Trish Rose sentenced Deandre Pannell, 28, Hutchinson, to a total of two-years, three months in prison, then granted him two-years community corrections. The judge denied a motion for judgment of acquittal or a new trial.

The case involves an incident in July of 2014 when Pannell took a vehicle that didn’t belong to him and when the victims in the case confronted him to get the vehicle back, he allegedly came out of the vehicle, broke a window in a van the victims were in and threatened them with a hatchet.

The defense argued that there was not hatchet found at the time of his arrest. Senior Assistant District Attorney Steve Maxwell noted there was some time before he was arrested giving him plenty of time to ditch it.

He was also ordered to pay $305.00 in restitution.