A preliminary hearing in a Lyon County drug distribution case has been delayed, while another is skipping trial and going to sentencing after a recent plea.
William Walters will return to court for his preliminary hearing June 16 after his incarceration in Kansas Department of Corrections custody forced him to miss a hearing in Emporia early last month. Judge Doug Jones denied a defendant motion to dismiss the case outright as part of last month’s hearing.
Walters has been charged with distributing up to 450 grams of marijuana, using a cell phone to commit a felony, possession of meth and paraphernalia and criminal possession of a weapon by a felon as part of an alleged incident Jan. 19.
Separately, Maurice De’Sean Evans accepted a plea agreement in a case originally filed as drug distribution and trafficking contraband as part of a hearing last week. Evans pleaded no contest to distributing a small amount of meth, with prosecutors dismissing the contraband and paraphernalia counts. Sentencing is July 11. Evans was originally charged in March 2023.
