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Crandell Receives Prison Sentence For Kidnapping PDF Print E-mail
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Written by Robin Hixson   
Wednesday, 17 June 2009 08:00
A Paola man found guilty of holding his estranged wife hostage and threatening two other people with a handgun last summer just south of Paola was sentenced June 10 to nearly five years in a state prison. District Judge Amy Harth found Chad Rody Crandell, 43, guilty May 7 of the Aug. 25, 2008, kidnapping of Stephanie Crandell (whose last name is now Randall) and the aggravated assaults of Roger D. Tennis of Fontana and Harry G. Stubbs of Paola after the defendant entered a no contest plea to those charges. The judge dismissed charges accusing Crandell of the aggravated battery and stalking of Stephanie Crandell during the same incident.

Crandell received a sentence of 59 months in a Kansas Department of Corrections facility on the kidnapping count, then 12 months each on the two counts of assault, all to be served concurrently. Upon his release from prison, he will undergo 36 months of probation.
During a February preliminary hearing. Miami County Sheriff’s Office personnel and witnesses to the attack testified that, on the morning of the incident, Crandell crashed his truck into the Jeep Liberty driven by his then wife, Stephanie, near the junction of U.S. Highway 169 and 327th Street. At that time, she was talking to a 9-1-1 operator on a cellular telephone and attempting to elude Crandell.
Stephanie Crandell testified during the hearing that, after her Jeep rolled onto its side, her husband broke a passenger window with a pistol, then held her near the vehicle and placed the barrel of the pistol under his own chin.

He also assaulted Stubbs and Tennis during the incident using the pistol in his possession at that time.

After Stephanie Crandell escaped her husband, a standoff involving deputies and a tactical response team ensued until Chad Crandell surrendered.

The attack on Stephanie Crandell occurred six weeks after she had filed for divorce, citing incompatability. The divorce decree was finalized Oct. 10, 2008, and she has custody of the couple’s two young children.
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