Thirty-one-year-old Richard Musil of Great Bend was transported to El Dorado Correctional Facility Monday to begin a 69-month prison sentence after having his probation from previous offenses revoked in October 2020.

Last October, Barton County District Court Judge Carey Hipp revoked Musil’s probation on two separate 2019 convictions after Barton County Attorney Levi Morris argued he had violated terms of his probation and committed new offenses while on probation.

On May 20, 2019, Musil was booked into the Barton County Jail on a charge of aggravated domestic battery, reportedly committed on May 19 of that year, and he was released that same day after posting a $20,000 surety bond. He later entered guilty pleas to aggravated battery of his ex-wife and violating a protective order. 

In a separate case from 2019, he entered a guilty plea to possession of methamphetamine. In exchange for these pleas, additional charges from the two cases and from two other cases were dismissed. Based on his criminal history, the standard sentence would have included time in prison but the court applied a special rule that allowed Musil to be granted probation.

Musil is scheduled to be released in January 2025 at the earliest.