GRANT COUNTY — A southwest Kansas man has been sentenced to life in prison in connection with the 2019 death of a child, according to Attorney General Derek Schmidt.
Uraquio Agustin Arredondo, 29, of Ulysses, was sentenced Tuesday in Grant County District Court by Judge Clinton Peterson. Arredondo was sentenced to life in a Kansas Department of Corrections facility without the possibility of parole for 25 years for one count of first degree murder. In addition, he was sentenced to 110 months in a KDOC facility for one count of child abuse.
The sentences are to be served consecutively, followed by lifetime post-release supervision.
Arredondo was convicted of the crimes in April following a bench trial.
On Feb. 24, 2019 authorities arrested Uraquio “Rocky” A. Arredondo, at his home in the 900 Block of S. Cheyenne in Ulysses, Kan, according to a media release from the KBI.
Arredondo was arrested for first degree murder and abuse of a child.
The arrest followed a yearlong investigation by the KBI and the Ulysses Police Department into the death of 3-year-old Carlos Valenzuela III. On Feb. 26, 2019, police and EMS were dispatched to the child’s home after they received a 911 call reporting an unresponsive child.
The boy was first transported to Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital and was then transferred to a Denver, Colo. hospital for treatment. He died Feb. 27, 2019 in Denver. Arredondo was in a relationship with child’s mother, according to the KBI.