HUTCHINSON — A Kansas man charged in a child sex case was bound over for trial on the four counts against him on Thursday and then arrested on two new charges filed by the state.

Tanner Ward, 23, Hutchinson, faces arraignment for 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 and January 11.

The aggravated burglary is alleged to have occurred on June 23 where he allegedly went into a home in the 100 block of East 5th to allegedly intimidate a victim or for a sexually motivated crime, according to police. The mother of the victim found him in her daughters bed. He was later found inside the garage of that home.

The final charge of criminal threat is alleged to have occurred on February 15, where he allegedly threatened to cut another person’s head off. Saying once all this is over he would go to the victim’s mothers home and take care of her.

In another instance, Ward was originally arrested for burglary after he allegedly stole some copper pipes from the construction site at the Hutchinson Sports Arena, 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.

District Attorney Keith Schroeder told the court that had Ward agreed to plead to one charge of indecent liberties with a child, he would have dropped the other charges and not file any new ones. Ward turned it down, so with this case, the state charged him with making false writing.
Ward is also alleged to have made contact with the alleged victim urging her to not show in court to testify telling her she wouldn’t be in trouble if she told them she simply forgot. Schroeder charged him with another count of Intimidation of a witness.
Arraignment on the original charges will be on September 6, and the new charges will added to a waiver-status docket on September 7.