The first-appearance docket today gave Sedgwick County District Judge Eric Yost the kind of Valentine he didn’t expect.
One of the defendants on the docket sheet was Valentine Solis, appearing from the closed circuit television from the county jail to hear criminal charges filed against him on Valentine’s Day.
Valentine is charged with carrying the wrong kind of candy — possession of cocaine. That comes from the coca plant, not the cocoa plant, that other South American crop with the bean used to make chocolate. That’s what most people carry this time of year. Yost scheduled a preliminary hearing for two weeks.