A Prague man has been sentenced to prison and he still awaits a jury trial on multiple other felonies.
Formal charges of Assault and Battery with a dangerous weapon, a felony, were filed in Lincoln County District Court March 22, 2022 against Mick Devin Vancuren who was 31 at time.
He was accused on March 7, 2022 in Lincoln County, of without justifiable and excusable cause of assault and battering Henry Arthur with a Silver Chevy truck with the intent to injure Arthur.
Vancuren, now 32, recently appeared before District Judge Traci Soderstrom and entered a no contest plea as the result of a plea bargain.
The state and Vancuren waived a pre-sentence investigation.
The court received the waiver and found him guilty as charged.
The judge sentenced Vancuren to five years in the Department of Corrections, assessed him a $100 fine and $100 VCA and court costs.
First Assistant District Attorney Adam Kallsnick in Lincoln and Pottawatomie County said he handled the case for the state.
Judge Soderstrom ordered that the sentences are to run concurrent with a case filed in 2019 in Lincoln County against him where he was first handed deferred terms after pleading guilty to possession of a stolen vehicle and obstructing an officer.
Those deferred terms were later revoked when he violated the terms and conditions of them. He was sentenced to two years in DOC on one of the charges and one year in the county jail on the other and given time for credit served, according to court records.
His five-year prison term handed down also is to run concurrent with a Pottawatomie County case filed against him in 2017 for endangering others while eluding a police officer.
He was handed a fiveyear suspended prison term with all but the first six months suspended.
The judge also stipulated that Vancuren was to remain in the Lincoln County jail until the conclusion of cases that were set for Feb. 23.
Court records show that at the conclusion of a preliminary hearing, he was bound over to stand trial on four felony and two misdemeanor charges that were formally filed April 18, 2022 in Lincoln County District Court against him.
At that time he was charged with operating/ dealing with a chop shop after former conviction of two or more felonies; conspiracy after former conviction of two or more felonies; pattern of criminal offenses after two or more felonies; and possession of stolen vehicle after former conviction of two or more felonies.
The two misdemeanors include destroying evidence and obstructing an officer.
Kallsnick said the Payne County District Attorney’s office is handling these and the other cases against Vancuren and doing so in Lincoln County.
During his arraignment in March before Judge Soderstrom, he entered not guilty pleas to the charges.
The judge set the cause for the felony disposition docket at 9:30 a.m. on May 16, the jury call docket at 9:30 a.m. June 2 and scheduled his jury trial for 9 a.m. June 5.
An intimidating a witness charge has been dismissed against Vancuren.
He waived a preliminary hearing on a charge of malicious injury to property over $1,000 and Judge Soderstrom set his times for the felony disposition docket, jury call docket and his jury trial the same as on the other counts.
The judge has set Vancuren for the felony disposition docket on May 16 in a case filed against him June 6, 2022 that charged him with possession of a controlled substance, driving without a license and failure to pay taxes due state.