(From the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office)A Cherokee County man was sentenced to over 10 years imprisonment in Cherokee County District Court earlier this week.
In December 2019, Cherokee County Sheriff's Deputies and Investigators responded to a rural location outside of Galena, when a woman was able to flee the home and reported sustaining significant injuries and being held against here will during a multi-day attack.
Detectives arrested James Dean Hignite, currently age 63, as a result of their investigation.
On Tuesday, July 12th, 2022, Hignite was sentenced to 124-months after pleading guilty to 2 counts of Aggravated Battery and 1 count of Aggravated Domestic Battery.
Hignite remains in the Cherokee County Jail pending transport to the Kansas Department of Corrections.
Cherokee County Attorney Nathan Coleman prosecuted the case.
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