DALLAS – A 44-year-old man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after prosecutors said he held a woman captive in a commercial garage and repeatedly strangled and beat her with a curtain rod, hammer, wrench and metal flashlight.
Gilbert Chavez-Cloyd Franco Jr. pleaded guilty to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon involving family violence. He was sentenced June 22, with the court also entering affirmative findings of family violence and use of a deadly weapon.
According to prosecutors, the 54-year-old victim was kept inside a commercial garage without access to a phone for several days while Franco assaulted her…