Baxter man sentenced to prison

A sentence of 22 months in the Kansas Department of Corrections was assessed to Nicholas Ryan Patton, 38, of Baxter Springs. Patton was sentenced after pleading guilty March 16 in Cherokee County District Court to two counts of felony criminal threat.

The sentence comes after Cherokee County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to an altercation just outside of Baxter Springs May 28, 2022, where Patton was…