Sentencing is coming next month for the lead defendant in a Lyon County case involving an alleged law enforcement pursuit that hurt a Lyon County deputy in late May.
Kaitlynn Mundell accepted a plea agreement involving a no-contest plea to one count of aggravated battery on law enforcement. Other charges, including flee and elude, interference with law enforcement, criminal deprivation of property and failure to stop at an accident, have been dismissed.
Mundell allegedly drove a pickup north of Emporia on May 31, leading a pursuit involving Lyon County deputies and Emporia Police officers as Unbound Gravel was starting its 200-mile races. Before looping into Emporia, where the chase ended, Mundell allegedly crashed into a Sheriff’s Office cruiser, causing minor injuries to Deputy Doug Stump.
Mundell’s sentence will be announced Sept. 25.
Co-defendant Preston Ashburn, meanwhile, had accepted a plea agreement in June on one count of methamphetamine possession but has withdrawn that decision — so he now faces the original list of charges including battery on law enforcement, interference with law enforcement and meth, marijuana and paraphernalia possession. He now has a hearing Aug. 28.
