RENO COUNTY— A Kansas man who entered pleas in two domestic incidents, one where he held police at bay on Christmas Eve 2015 for nearly six hours was sentenced on Monday to three years in prison.

Charles Mendenhall III, 34, Hutchinson, pled guilty to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in the case from Dec. 24, of last year and aggravated burglary for the case from Jan. 10 of this year.

Judge Trish Rose sided with protecting the community when she handed down the sentence and denied a defense request for some form of probation.

Mendenhall had been charged with kidnapping, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, criminal discharge of a firearm, criminal threat and two counts of aggravated endangerment of a child in the Christmas Eve incident.

In the case from Jan. 10 of 2016, he was charged with aggravated battery, aggravated burglary, interference with law enforcement, violation of a protection from abuse order, criminal restraint and battery of Hutchinson Police Officer Josh Long.