HUTCHINSON – A 25-year-old Kansas man arrested over a week ago in a home invasion case appeared via-video from the Reno County Correctional Facility where he was read the formal charges Monday.

Wayne A. Sprague, Beloit, has been charged by the state for aggravated burglary, two counts of aggravated battery, criminal threat and possession of methamphetamine.

On September 13, a Hutchinson woman reported to police that she found a man inside her home just before 7 a.m.

She ran to her bedroom where her husband was still asleep.
Police say Sprague followed her, allegedly forced her onto the bed and began choking her.

The victim’s husband work up and then began struggling with Sprague.

When police arrived, they first took Sprague to Hutchinson Regional Medical Center to be checked out, and then to the Reno County Correctional Facility.

He remains jailed on a $60,000 bond and Judge Joe McCarville scheduled the case for a waiver-status docket on October 14.