A Hancock County man has been convicted in Shelby County of failing to pay child support.

Skyler Ayers, 34, of New Palestine, was convicted after a jury trial of the offense of Felony Non-Support, a Level 6 felony. Ayers has been up to $7,251.63 in arrears in his Shelby County child support case, and has never made a voluntary payment. His only payments have come from the Shelby County Prosecutor's Office intercepting his taxes, and from bond money.

He will be sentenced in the Shelby County case on April 28.

The case was prosecuted by deputy prosecutor Vicki Atkins.

Ayers is also wanted for failure to appear for another child support case in Green County, and is also wanted for failure to appear in two cases in Marion County.  One is for arson and theft of a handgun, the other for possession of meth and identity deception).