A Rohnert Park man has been sentenced to eight years in state prison for a domestic violence attack that left his girlfriend with a broken right femur that required surgery. Prosecutors say 49-year-old John Steven Lombardo assaulted the woman on April 24, 2025, after an argument in his apartment, and that it was apartment staff, not Lombardo, who contacted emergency services. The case was pushed to felony-level charges because of the severity of the injury.
According to the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office and reporting by SFGATE, Lombardo pleaded no contest to two felony counts: domestic violence causing great bodily injury and violation of an order of protection, and was handed an eight-year state prison term. Prosecutors said Lombardo had a 2023 misdemeanor domestic violence conviction; while on probation in that case he was later convicted of methamphetamine possession and repeatedly violated restraining orders. Those prior offenses, officials said, were key factors in the decision to seek state prison time rather than probation…