TOPEKA – Governor Laura Kelly today announced the appointment of Audé Amelia Negrete of Overland Park as executive director of the Hispanic and Latino American Affairs Commission.
The Kansas Hispanic and Latino American Affairs Commission serves as a liaison for the Kansas Hispanic and Latino community and the Office of the Governor, with the goal of serving needs of Hispanic and Latino residents in areas of culture, education, employment, health, housing, welfare, and recreation.
“Audé’s own life experience and desire to address challenges faced by Hispanic and Latino residents of our state made her an ideal choice to lead this commission,” Governor Kelly said. “She’ll be a valuable contributor, just as she’s been over the years in her successful efforts surrounding social justice and civic engagement.”
Born in Mexico City, Negrete was 14 when her family left Mexico for to the United States and Kansas. During her career, she’s been involved in numerous initiatives designed to provide educational, social and economic services for Hispanic and Latino families in Kansas.
The seven-member Hispanic and Latino American Affairs Commission includes four members representing each of the state’s congressional districts, and three at-large members.
Negrete will fill the executive director position previously held by Richard Martinez.
SHAWNEE COUNTY— Law enforcement authorities are investigating a weekend stabbing and have a suspect in custody.
Lewis photo Shawnee County
Just after 2:00 p.m. Saturday, police responded to a call for service due to a stabbing at 17th and Topeka Boulevard in Topeka, according to Lt. Jerry Monasmith. While on scene, officers located a victim, and determined the incident to be an Aggravated Battery.
EMS transported the man to a local hospital with injuries found to be non-life threatening. Detectives conducted follow up investigations and identified Lavaughn Lewis, , 44, as a suspect.
Just before 1:30 a.m. Sunday, officers located Lewis in the 1300 Block SW Western in Topeka where he was taken into custody without incident. He is being held in the Shawnee County Department of Corrections for on requested charges of Aggravated Battery.
He has previous convictions for burglary and indecent liberties with a child and is a registered sex offender, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A lawsuit brought by the family of a Kansas murder victim against his killer has been settled.
Danny Queen -photo Douglas Co.
Douglas County court records show the case against Danny W. Queen was dismissed after an undisclosed settlement was reached.
The 38-year-old Eudora man is serving nearly 19 years for the murder of 32-year-old Bo Hopson in 2017. A jury convicted him of second-degree murder as well as attempted second-degree murder and attempted voluntary manslaughter for trying to shoot two other bar patrons.
Queen was kicked out of the bar after making offensive comments to women. When Hopson offered to find Queen a ride home, Queen pulled a gun and shot Hopson, who was the bar’s security guard.
The victim’s father, Scott Hopson, sued after Queen’s arrest.
Medicaid expansion supporters at the Kansas Statehouse
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A government transparency group says the Kansas attorney general’s office has dismissed part of a formal complaint, while continuing to investigate whether the public was denied the right under the Open Meetings Act to observe Senate business after the visitor gallery was closed during a protest.
The Kansas Sunshine Coalition for Open Government sought intervention by Attorney General Derek Schmidt after the May 29 Senate session was interrupted by supporters of Medicaid expansion.
Reporters were removed from the chamber during the protest. Senators, legislative staff, employees of the governor and others were allowed to remain.
Sunshine Coalition President Ron Keefover says the attorney general’s office notified the organization that allegations the Senate violated its own rules and operated contrary to the First Amendment went beyond its authority.
TREGO COUNTY — The Kansas Highway Patrol has reported that a 60-year-old Ness County man was killed in an accident just before 1:30 p.m. Monday in Trego County.
The KHP said a 2007 Pontiac SUV driven by James R. Rohr, 60, Ransom, was traveling northbound on U.S. 283 near the intersection of County Road S when the vehicle drifted across the centerline. The SUV struck a semi driven by Chance W. McMullen, 27, Norton.
Rohr’s vehicle came to rest in the northbound lane, and the semi came to rest in the west ditch.
The KHP said both drivers were properly restrained.
INDIANAPOLIS – The Fort Hays State women’s basketball team ranked second in NCAA Division II in attendance for the fifth consecutive season in 2018-19. An average of 2,518 Tiger fans filed through the gates at Gross Memorial Coliseum each night, setting a new program record. FHSU totaled 47,848 fans over its 19 home games last year, the second-highest total attendance in NCAA DII history.
A regular at the top of the attendance charts, Fort Hays State has now been in the top 10 in average attendance for 10 straight seasons. Included in those 10 years are eight seasons in the top five and six seasons in second place. Northern State topped the list for the 12th consecutive season in 2018-19, averaging 2,609 fans over 13 home dates.
The large crowds have helped Fort Hays State create one of the best home court advantages in the nation, as the Tigers have lost one or fewer home game each of the last seven seasons. FHSU is an astounding 109-6 inside the Coliseum during that span (.948 winning percentage). The Tigers were 18-1 at home a year ago, matching their program record with a 25-game home winning streak dating back to January 2018.
The Tigers regularly played in front of large crowds on the road as well, with seven other MIAA programs ranking in the top 20 in Division II. The MIAA was the top conference in attendance for the 11th-straight season, averaging 1,053 fans through 204 games to account for a grand total of 214,907. Last season was the sixth-straight year in which the Tigers have led the league in average home attendance.
The record-setting attendance would slot the Tigers just outside the top 50 among the 349 NCAA Division I programs sponsoring women’s basketball in 2018-19, outdrawing the likes of Kansas and Wichita State. FHSU would rank the top 15% of DI programs with 50 schools averaging a higher attendance.
Orman L. Brent, age 89, of Ulysses, Kansas, died Sunday, June 30, 2019, at Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital in Ulysses, Kansas. He was born January 31, 1930, in Alton, Kansas, the son of Ola LeRoy and Helen Elizabeth (Weethee) Brent.
Orman moved to Denver at the age of 18 and worked in the Denver Stockyards; at 23 he moved to Stockton, California, and worked for a rubber company. Four years later he moved to Ulysses and worked for Columbian Chemicals at Hickok Carbon Black Plant. He retired in 1995. Orman met Betty Lou Oliver in 1958, which lived across the alley from him. They dated and married on April 3, 1959; just celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary. Orman also worked part time as a mechanic and later repaired TV’s and electronics. In 1974, Orman opened Brent’s TV and Electronics. His hobbies and enjoyment were his family, playing the harmonica while Betty accompanied him on the organ or accordion, helping the boys in the family with carpentry or mechanic work. Orman was a very hard worker, sometimes working 40 hours a week at both his full time and part time jobs.
Orman is survived by his wife, Betty of their home; sons, Kevin Lynn Brent and Kenneth Dean Brent both of Ulysses; daughter, Tamara Sue Bartron and husband Terry of Winfield, West Virginia; brother, John Francis Brent of Dodge City, Kansas; sister, Roma Doraine York of Fort Smith, Arkansas; seven grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren; and expecting a great-grandchild and great-great grandchild.
Orman is preceded in death by his parents; brothers, William Leroy and David Owen; and sister, Irene Lucille Branham.
Funeral service will be Friday, July 5, 2019, at 10:30 AM at Country View Baptist Church in Ulysses with Pastor James Berry officiating. Interment will follow at Ulysses Cemetery. Visitation will be Thursday, July 4, 2019, from 2:00 PM until 8:00 PM at Garnand Funeral Home in Ulysses. Memorial contributions may be given to American Cancer Society or American Diabetes Association in care of Garnand Funeral Home, 405 W. Grant Ave, Ulysses, KS 67880.
Bob Taylor, field services specialist for the Kansas State School for the Blind works with a visually impaired student to launch a drone during an extended school year learning camp on the FHSU campus last week.
By JAMES BELL Hays Post
Last week, visually impaired students from across central and western Kansas traveled to Fort Hays State University for a weeklong extended school year camp that brought together learning, fun, and comradery with the goal of helping students become fully functioning members of society.
The camp was organized by the Kansas State School for the Blind, which brings instructors from across the state to help teach the students a variety of life skills.
“For a person who is visually impaired, there are additional skills they need to learn in order to be productive members of society,” said Anna Cyr, field services specialist, Kansas State School for the Blind.
The camp focused on nine areas of learning that a visually impaired person needs as they transition to adulthood including, independent living skills, assistive technology, compensatory skills, such as Braille and large print, recreation and leisure, orientation of mobility, and social skills.
“We have been doing a variety of activities all week to address all of those areas and increase these student’s skill so that they can continue to learn and grow both in school and in life,” Cyr said.
Students that participated in the camp ranged in ages from 10 to 16, an ideal age Cyr said for their first experiences away from home and to work on developing skills they will need as they move towards college or the workforce.
“They are learning a lot of life skills,” she said. “They also have the opportunity to interact with other students that are visually impaired,” Cyr said.
Along with practical skills learned, the students are also getting valuable time interacting with others who share their experiences.
“Especially in western Kansas, it is pretty common to have one student who is visually impaired in a school district, so it’s not very often that they have someone else who also uses a white cane, or also reads Braille, or uses the technology that they interact with on a daily basis,” Cyr said.
Abrienda, a second-year attendee of the camp, said she was having fun interacting with the other students and practicing different skills.
Bob Taylor, field services specialist for the Kansas State School for the Blind works with a visually impaired student to type with a braille input device during an extended school year learning camp on the FHSU campus last week.
“Basically it’s (an) extended school year. You get to learn different things that maybe your school doesn’t teach,” she said. “You get to learn how to do different things, while you are cooking, or while you are out and about.”
She also enjoyed working with the technology available during the camp that helps visually impaired students develop communication and navigation skills.
“Technology is a lot different than what other people have,” she said. “So that’s kind of a new experience.”
But while she enjoyed the learning aspects of camp, she was a particular fan of a more leisurely activity.
“My favorite part of camp so far would probably be the art, because we are learning how to weave and do other things,” she said. “It’s a really good experience.”
Bob Taylor, an education technologist who is another field services specialist for the Kansas State School for the Blind, worked with the students over the week to learn and use specialized technology that helps the students adapt to the larger world.
“If we can get the kids talking about this stuff and what the outcomes are, they can self-advocate,” Taylor said. “We are trying to go ahead and get a lot of these kids to not be afraid and to self-advocate.”
If the students learn to ask questions and develop basic skills with the technology, it will help them to branch out into other educational opportunities.
In particular, he uses the technology to teach navigation skills and as a fun motivational activity to help the students self-advocate, by asking making them ask for things to use the technology.
“If they can self-advocate they can do other things,” he said, “if they are interested.”
A visually impaired student puts together a specially designed learning toy during an extended school year learning camp on the Fort Hays State Campus last week.
During the camp, Taylor said he is often in awe of the abilities and experiences the students bring with them.
“The more I do this, the more I bring in,” Taylor said. “Actually the students are teaching me.”
During the camp, the students also traveled into the community visiting local shops, restaurants and the Sternberg Museum.
“A big initiative of the Kansas School for the Blind in the last five years and beyond is to bring more of our services out to the students in their home areas,” Cyr said.
TORONTO (AP) – Backed by an offensive barrage, Blue Jays left-hander Clayton Richard had a relatively easy time ending the longest losing streak of his career.
Freddy Galvis hit a pair of solo home runs, rookie Cavan Biggio had four RBIs and Toronto beat the Kansas City Royals 11-4 on Monday.
Randal Grichuk had four hits and four RBIs and Teoscar Hernandez added a solo home run as the Blue Jays won for the 15th time in 19 regular-season home meetings with the Royals.
Richard (1-4) allowed three runs and seven hits in six innings to win for the first time since Aug. 18, 2018, when he beat Arizona while pitching for San Diego. He’d lost nine straight decisions since.
“It’s huge,” Richard said of earning his first win with Toronto. “That’s why we play the game, is to win. It feels a lot better doing that than the alternative.”
Richard has pitched six innings in back-to-back starts for the first time this season.
“That’s all we can ask: five, six good innings, and he gave us again that today,” Blue Jays manager Charlie Montoyo said.
Wearing red caps and jerseys in honor of Canada Day, the Blue Jays scored in each of the first four innings and finished with a season-high 18 hits.
“I’m impressed with Toronto’s team, their young crop of hitters,” Royals manager Ned Yost said. “They’re going to be really a good group that’s going to be able to put some runs on the board.”
Biggio, who went 3 for 5, hit his first career grand slam in Saturday’s 7-5 victory, the first time he had driven in four runs in a game.
Members of the Canadian Forces rappelled into the outfield from the open stadium roof before the game, before hundreds of servicemen and women unfurled a giant Canadian flag for the singing of “O Canada.”
“I can see how much it means to so many people, and I feel honored and privileged to be a part of it,” Richard said about pitching on Canada Day.
Royals right-hander Glenn Sparkman (2-4) allowed career highs of nine hits and eight runs in three innings.
“I just really didn’t have good command of anything and they jumped it,” Sparkman said.
Ahead 2-0 after one, the Blue Jays scored five in the second, doing so for the second straight game. On Sunday, Toronto immediately surrendered five runs in the third and lost 7-6 to Kansas City – the Royals’ only win in the four-game series.
Hernandez homered on the first pitch of the second, his eighth, and Galvis followed with a blast to center. It was the seventh time this season the Blue Jays have gone back-to-back.
Biggio added a two-run double and Grichuk capped the inning with an RBI single.
Galvis went deep again in the third, the third multihomer game of his career. He now has 14 home runs this season. Galvis doubled in the fifth and flied out in the seventh.
Jorge Soler, Cheslor Cuthbert and Humberto Arteaga hit consecutive RBI singles off Richard in the fourth, and Royals All-Star Whit Merrifield had an RBI single off David Phelps in the seventh.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Royals: INF Adalberto Mondesi (strained right groin) started at shortstop and went 1 for 4 with a double in his second rehab game with Double-A Northwest Arkansas on Sunday night. Mondesi has been out since June 18.
NO HOMERS
Richard had allowed at least one homer in six straight starts. He kept it in the park Monday for the first time since a four-inning stint in his May 23 season debut against Boston.
BEASTLY EAST
The Royals are 6-15 against AL East opponents.
“It’s just a tough division,” Yost said. “It’s always been a slugger’s division, guys that can really swing the bats well. If you make mistakes, they’re going to capitalize on it and that’s exactly what happened today.”
ROSTER MOVE
After the game, the Royals released right-hander Brad Boxberger, who was designated for assignment last week. He went 1-3 with a 5.40 ERA and one save in 29 appearances.
UP NEXT
Royals: RHP Jakob Junis (4-7, 5.23 ERA) starts for Kansas City in the opener of a three-game home series against Cleveland, which beat Junis in his previous start. RHP Trevor Bauer (6-6, 3.55) starts for the Indians.
Blue Jays: RHP Trent Thornton (2-5, 4.60) starts the opener of a three-game series against Boston. Thornton allowed five runs against the Yankees in his previous start, matching a season worst. LHP David Price (5-2, 3.36) starts for the Red Sox.
Kansas Common crude at CHS in McPherson closed out the month of June at $48.75 [[“forty-eight seventy-five”]] per barrel. That’s five dollars more than at the beginning of the month, thirteen dollars more than at the beginning of the year, but nearly sixteen dollars less than last year at this time. The average price for June was $45.14 [[“forty-five fourteen”]] per barrel, compared to $57.50 [[“fifty-seven fifty”]] in June of last year.
Baker Hughes reported 967 active drilling rigs across the U.S. Friday, an increase of four oil rigs. There are 124 active drilling rigs in Canada, up five. Oklahoma reports an increase of two rigs and Texas was up one. Independent Oil & Gas Service reports six active drilling rigs in eastern Kansas, up two for the week, and 22 west of Wichita, which is unchanged.
Triple-A is predicting higher gasoline prices for some of us going into the Independence Day holiday. A fire in Philadelphia forced the permanent shutdown of the oldest and largest refinery on the east coast. The federal government announced large reductions in domestic crude oil and gasoline inventories. This could all push pump prices higher. The national average price for a gallon of regular on Monday (7/1) was up a penny to just over $2.71 a gallon, which is about 11 cents lower than last month at this time. The average in Kansas was a little over $2.46 a gallon. Locally, you should be able to save about two dollars on your 15-gallon fill up compared to a month ago.
Regulators report just 115 new intent-to-drill notices across Kansas for the month of June, bringing the statewide total to just 530 for the first half of 2019. That’s 355 fewer intents than the total through June of 2018, a year in which total Kansas crude production reached its lowest level in more than a decade. There was one new intent filed last month Barton County. That’s 18 so far this year. Ellis County reports six new intents in June and 20 through the month of June. Russell County had one last month and seven year-to-date. There were no new intents filed last month in Stafford County, which has 11 for the first six months of the year.
The Kansas Geological Survey reports the state’s crude oil production in March was 2.8 million barrels. First quarter production was just over 8.1 million barrels statewide. Barton County production stands just short of 400-thousand barrels for the first three months of the year. Ellis County produced 625-thousand barrels. The total in Russell County was 369-thousand barrels and Stafford County produced just over 253-thousand.
Regulators approved 24 permits for drilling at new locations statewide last week, seven east of Wichita and 17 in Western Kansas, for a total of 455 permits so far this year. There’s one new permit in Ellis County and one in Russell County.
Independent Oil & Gas Service reports continuing weather-related problems delaying some production activity in Western Kansas. There were four leases in Ellis County where the site is too wet to begin completion work. There was one well completed in Ellis County last week and three in Barton County. Across the state there were 46 newly-completed wells, 750 so far this year. There were 33 completions in Western Kansas and 13 east of Wichita.
The government said U.S. crude oil inventories dropped nearly 13 million barrels last week to 469.6 million barrels. That’s about five percent more than the five-year average for this time of year.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported domestic production was down slightly to 12.07 million barrels per day for the week ending June 21. That’s a drop of 92-thousand barrels from the week before, but over a million barrels per day more than a year ago at this time.
Imports were down more than 800-thousand barrels to 6.7 million barrels per day. The four week average for imports is down more than 10% from the same period a year ago.
A new report shows that we’re consuming a lot more oil than we’re producing. According to the authoritative Statistical Review of World Energy from BP, worldwide crude oil consumption set a record last year at 99.8 million barrels per day. Worldwide production only reached 94.7 million barrels per day. The United States remains the world’s top oil consumer, at 20.5 million barrels per day last year. China was second and India was third.
Sky high economic expectations in the Permian Basin in southeastern New Mexico are prompting United Airlines to offer daily flights direct from Hobbs, New Mexico to Denver. United is ready to start the new service October 28. Flights from Hobbs to Houston began eight years ago.
TORONTO (AP) — Backed by an offensive barrage, Blue Jays left-hander Clayton Richard had a relatively easy time ending the longest losing streak of his career.
Freddy Galvis hit a pair of solo home runs, rookie Cavan Biggio had four RBIs and Toronto beat the Kansas City Royals 11-4 on Monday.
Randal Grichuk had four hits and four RBIs and Teoscar Hernández added a solo home run as the Blue Jays won for the 15th time in 19 regular-season home meetings with the Royals.
Richard (1-4) allowed three runs and seven hits in six innings to win for the first time since Aug. 18, 2018, when he beat Arizona while pitching for San Diego. He’d lost nine straight decisions since.
“It’s huge,” Richard said of earning his first win with Toronto. “That’s why we play the game, is to win. It feels a lot better doing that than the alternative.”
Richard has pitched six innings in back-to-back starts for the first time this season.
“That’s all we can ask: five, six good innings, and he gave us again that today,” Blue Jays manager Charlie Montoyo said.
Wearing red caps and jerseys in honor of Canada Day, the Blue Jays scored in each of the first four innings and finished with a season-high 18 hits.
“I’m impressed with Toronto’s team, their young crop of hitters,” Royals manager Ned Yost said. “They’re going to be really a good group that’s going to be able to put some runs on the board.”
Biggio, who went 3 for 5, hit his first career grand slam in Saturday’s 7-5 victory, the first time he had driven in four runs in a game.
Members of the Canadian Forces rappelled into the outfield from the open stadium roof before the game, before hundreds of servicemen and women unfurled a giant Canadian flag for the singing of “O Canada.”
“I can see how much it means to so many people, and I feel honored and privileged to be a part of it,” Richard said about pitching on Canada Day.
Royals right-hander Glenn Sparkman (2-4) allowed career highs of nine hits and eight runs in three innings.
“I just really didn’t have good command of anything and they jumped it,” Sparkman said.
Ahead 2-0 after one, the Blue Jays scored five in the second, doing so for the second straight game. On Sunday, Toronto immediately surrendered five runs in the third and lost 7-6 to Kansas City — the Royals’ only win in the four-game series.
Hernández homered on the first pitch of the second, his eighth, and Galvis followed with a blast to center. It was the seventh time this season the Blue Jays have gone back-to-back.
Biggio added a two-run double and Grichuk capped the inning with an RBI single.
Galvis went deep again in the third, the third multihomer game of his career. He now has 14 home runs this season. Galvis doubled in the fifth and flied out in the seventh.
Jorge Soler, Cheslor Cuthbert and Humberto Arteaga hit consecutive RBI singles off Richard in the fourth, and Royals All-Star Whit Merrifield had an RBI single off David Phelps in the seventh.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Royals: INF Adalberto Mondesi (strained right groin) started at shortstop and went 1 for 4 with a double in his second rehab game with Double-A Northwest Arkansas on Sunday night. Mondesi has been out since June 18.
NO HOMERS
Richard had allowed at least one homer in six straight starts. He kept it in the park Monday for the first time since a four-inning stint in his May 23 season debut against Boston.
BEASTLY EAST
The Royals are 6-15 against AL East opponents.
“It’s just a tough division,” Yost said. “It’s always been a slugger’s division, guys that can really swing the bats well. If you make mistakes, they’re going to capitalize on it and that’s exactly what happened today.”
ROSTER MOVE
After the game, the Royals released right-hander Brad Boxberger, who was designated for assignment last week. He went 1-3 with a 5.40 ERA and one save in 29 appearances.
UP NEXT
Royals: RHP Jakob Junis (4-7, 5.23 ERA) starts for Kansas City in the opener of a three-game home series against Cleveland, which beat Junis in his previous start. RHP Trevor Bauer (6-6, 3.55) starts for the Indians.
Blue Jays: RHP Trent Thornton (2-5, 4.60) starts the opener of a three-game series against Boston. Thornton allowed five runs against the Yankees in his previous start, matching a season worst. LHP David Price (5-2, 3.36) starts for the Red Sox.
WICHITA – A Larned man was sentenced today to 27 months in federal prison for causing a series of denial of service attacks on a Kansas internet service provider, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
Golightley photo Butler Co.
In April, a jury convicted Michael D. Golightley, 35, Larned, Kan., on seven counts of damaging a protected computer and one count of threatening to damage a protected computer.
During trial, prosecutors presented evidence that Golightley contacted an entity called DDosCity to arrange for a series of attacks on Nex-Tech’s computers.
Nex-Tech is an internet service provider with offices in Hays, Lenora, Beloit, Concordia, Courtland, Dodge City, Downs, Great Bend, Hill City, Hoxie, McPherson, Norton, Osborne, Phillipsburg, Plainville, Quinter, Russell, Salina, Smith Center, Stockton and WaKeeney.
Prosecutors presented evidence that on March 30 and 31, 2017, Nex-Tech was hit by three denial of service attacks that overloaded the company’s servers.
Before the attacks, Golightley sent Nex-Tech two threats. He was angry about the company removing an ad he placed on Nex-Tech Classifieds for a PlayStation 3 game that been “jail broken,” or modified to bypass a system security check. Golightley placed the ad a second time and sent Nex-Tech a warning that he would “violate this site by bringing it offline” if the ad were removed again. He added: “If u make me upset, I will retaliate — your choice.”
McAllister commended the FBI, Assistant U.S. Attorney Alan Metzger and Assistant U.S. Attorney Ryan McCarty for their work on the case.
— Corrected 8 a.m. Tuesday after U.S. Attorney’s Office clarification
A Hays resident was arrested over the weekend after reportedly fleeing a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper in Rooks County.
At 11:05 p.m. Friday, a trooper with the Kansas Highway Patrol attempted to stop a 2002 Dodge Stratus with a Kansas tag on County Road CC in Rooks County, according to Trooper Tod Hileman.
The vehicle fled the trooper going eastbound for an unknown amount of time before the car crashed.
The suspect then fled the crash and was later arrested by the KHP, Hileman said.
The KHP identified the suspect as Scott Finnesy, 39, Hays.
Finnesy was charged with transporting an open container, flee and eluding law enforcement after an accident, and failure to stop at the scene of an accident, along with six moving violations. He was transferred to Rooks County jail.
Finnesy has two prior convictions in Kansas. In 2011, he was convicted for attempting to elude a law enforcement officer and driving while suspended.
In 2015, he was sentenced for attempted aggravated intentional battery causing great bodily harm. Finnesy served over a year in the Ellsworth Correctional Facility related to that conviction.
He was released from the facility in January 2017 and his sentence expired in January of last year.
OFFICE OF GOV.
