HUTCHINSON— A preliminary hearing date is scheduled for a Kansas man charged in a child sex case.

Testimony against Tanner Ward, 23, Hutchinson, will be heard on August 18.

He is charged with two counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, aggravated burglary and criminal threat.

The charges involving a child 14 to 16 years of age are alleged to have occurred on January 9 and 11.

The aggravated burglary is alleged to have occurred on June 23 where Ward allegedly went into a home in the 100 block of East 5th in Hutchinson with what the state says was to intimidate a victim or a sexually motivated crime.

The final charge of criminal threat is alleged to have occurred on Feb. 15, 2016, where he allegedly threatened to cut another person’s head off.

Ward has another case also pending involving burglary where he allegedly stole some copper pipes from the construction site at the Hutchinson Sports Arena, then took the pipes to Midwest Iron and Metal and sold them for cash.

In doing so, he apparently signed papers saying the items were his.