The man accused of running from local law enforcement after hiding in a garage near Sacred Heart School earlier this summer has another pretrial hearing coming next month as potential trial settings get closer.
Abel Salinas Ortiz faces a pretrial hearing Dec. 12 on charges of aggravated failure to appear, felony interference of law enforcement, possession of methamphetamine and use of drug paraphernalia after an incident at 118 Sylvan in late August. He allegedly barricaded himself into a garage and then tried unsuccessfully to leave the scene.
Authorities say they were looking for Ortiz in connection to a pair of alleged drug sale incidents from October 2017 when they arrested him in August.
Ortiz has tentative trial settings of Dec. 17, Jan. 7 or Jan. 28 in his case.
