By CRISTINA JANNEY
Hays Post
A man who has been convicted of robbing a Hays Dollar General had his sentencing continued Tuesday in Ellis County District Court while he awaits extradition to Kentucky on more robbery charges.
Batalova Senuoke, armed with a handgun, threatened a 27th Street Dollar General employee and forced the employee to give him cash on July 21, 2022.
Senuoke of Columbus, Ohio, Bryan Anthony Parsley, also of Ohio, and a third person fled the scene. They were eventually spotted by a highway patrol trooper in Oakley. They fled an attempted traffic stop on Interstate 70 at a high rate of speed before a trooper performed a tactical vehicle intervention, and both vehicles rolled.
All three suspects were arrested.
Senuoke faces two counts of first-degree robbery in Kentucky. Ellis County Attorney Robert Anderson said he has spoken to the prosecutor in Kentucky, and the prosecutor there estimates Senuoke could face 10 years in prison if convicted in Kentucky.
Senuoke agreed to a plea deal in which he pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated robbery in Kansas and waived his extradition to Kentucky. The sentencing in Kansas was continued.
Anderson has recommended Senuoke be allowed to serve his sentences in Kentucky concurrently with the sentence in Ellis County.
"I am the one who is wrong here. That's the bottom line," Senuoke said.
He said he wished to go back to Kentucky to take responsibility for what he had done.
"I thought bad of you guys when I first got here, but I just did bad," Senuoke said at his hearing Tuesday.
Anderson said during Parsley's hearing that Parsley entered the store with Senuoke and helped check to make sure there were no children in the store.
Anderson said Parsley eventually said he did not feel comfortable and left the store, stealing a package of toilet paper.
Parsley is set to be sentenced at 10:30 a.m. Friday in Ellis County District Court.