- A man was ordered to complete a treatment program and spend four years on probation for a stabbing that seriously injured a man at Pioneer Park.
- The judge suspended the statutory prison sentence of one to 15 years in prison, but said there would be zero tolerance for violence offenses.
SALT LAKE CITY — A man who admitted to seriously injuring a man at Pioneer Park in Salt Lake City will get a second chance after a judge suspended his prison sentence and ordered him to spend time in a treatment center.
Alex Jones, 33, was sentenced on Thursday to one to 15 years in prison for aggravated assault resulting in serious injury, a second-degree felony, but 3rd District Judge Diana Gibson suspended that sentence. She ordered him instead to spend time in jail until a facility that provides mental health and addiction recovery services has a bed for him, and then he will be released to them to begin four years of probation.
Gibson told him he must complete the treatment program and there would be “zero tolerance for any violence.”…