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King City man sentenced for stabbing wife




Monterey County District Attorney Dean D. Flippo announced on Thursday, July 26 that Judge Mark Hood sentenced 23-year-old Giovanni Velasquez of King City, to 5 years in state prison for a felony violation of domestic violence and an enhancement for personally inflicting great bodily injury on his wife.

On the evening of February 20, 2018, Velasquez stabbed his wife in the hand and leg several times after an argument. Velasquez then fled the scene in a car driven by his friend and threw the knife he used out the window. King City police officers recovered the knife on the South 1st Street Bridge early the next morning.

The great bodily injury enhancement makes this offense a violent strike under California’s Three Strikes Sentencing Law.

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