HAWAI’I COUNTY, Hawaii (TCN) — A 67-year-old California man will spend two decades behind bars for stabbing his 64-year-old girlfriend multiple times at a beach resort nearly three years ago.
The Hawai’i County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office announced March 19 that Richard Lopez received a sentence of 20 years in prison, and the court also ordered him to serve a mandatory minimum of six years and eight months.
The defendant previously pleaded guilty in December 2024 to second-degree attempted murder. Prosecutors said the court “accepted his submission that he was under the influence of extreme mental or emotional disturbance at the time of the incident.”…