A Bryan man who was arrested last November for cutting off a man’s hand in the parking lot of a nightclub is headed to prison on other charges. 39 year old Paulino Martinez entered a plea agreement with the Brazos County district attorney’s office where a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon was dismissed. Martinez was sentenced to four years after admitting to having the machete outside the Tropicana Club in Bryan, along with violating parole on two prior convictions. One was firing a gun inside another Bryan bar four years ago.
Another Bryan man who made a deal with prosecutors gets eight years for dragging his wife by her hair and hitting her and a neighbor with an aluminum baseball bat. In addition to the crimes that took place last September, 27 year old Jose Salizar-Espinosa is also being held for immigration authorities.
A Bryan man who seven years ago drove his car over a woman he did not know two times for refusing his sexual advances is headed to prison. It’s been five years since a Brazos County district court jury convicted and sentenced 28 year old Jose Bedolla to three years. Bedolla won an appeal, but prosecutors refiled charges. Bedolla recently admitted to the aggravated assault that took place in April 2009 in Bryan on Columbus Street. His punishment could be up to ten years in prison, but probation will be considered in four months.
A Brazos County jury recently convicted a gang member of strangling his wife. Then 37 year old Johnnie Thompson of College Station was sentenced by the judge to 13 years. The district attorney’s office says the wife did not testify because Thompson threatened to kill her. That resulted in the judge allowing the jury to hear statements the wife made to police after she was attacked in January of last year.
The second of five people arrested in October 2012 from an aggravated robbery and aggravated kidnapping over a failed drug deal in College Station has entered a plea agreement. 29 year old Michael James Perry of Houston was sentenced to three years for attempted kidnapping and unlawful possession of a firearm. That’s in addition to a 15 year sentence in Harris County for felony possession of a weapon. Trial dates have not been set for three others. And the fifth is serving ten years for conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery.
A Bryan man has pleaded guilty to drunk driving with prior convictions in 1996 and 2000. 54 year old Horacio Lopez had been out on bond since his arrest in June of 2014.
