The man accused of shooting into a crowd outside a downtown bar this past weekend could have begun serving a 34-month prison sentence earlier this summer — but he didn’t.

Instead, a judge in Shawnee County suspended Jason A. Tremble’s prison sentence and ordered him to spend 12 months on supervised probation. He was to stay out of trouble, pay court costs, submit to drug testing and complete an intensive “community solutions” program, court records show.

District Court Judge Eric S. Rosen, who sentenced Tremble, declined comment on the details of the case.

“I can’t talk about it,” he said. “It’s not proper.”

Tremble, 21, pleaded no contest in January to two felonies: Possession of opiates or narcotics, and obstruction of justice. Records show that at the time of the June 20 sentencing, he had a criminal-history classification of “B” — the second most serious under the state’s sentencing guidelines.

Those guidelines set when defendants should be sent to prison or placed on probation.

Under those guidelines, Tremble normally would have been sent to prison for between 32 and 36 months — not granted a suspended sentence and placed on probation.

After Tremble reached a plea agreement with the state, he applied for the Labette Correctional Conservation Camp, but was turned down in either late spring or early summer, records show. The day before his sentencing, his attorneys filed a motion for a lighter penalty.

Officials in the Shawnee County District Attorney’s Office didn’t return a phone call Tuesday.

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