VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. (TCN) — A 44-year-old man will spend over two decades behind bars for assaulting his girlfriend and kidnapping her several years ago.
The Ventura County District Attorney’s Office announced that Salvador Martinez was sentenced on July 21 to 25 years and four months in state prison. Martinez pleaded guilty in April to multiple charges, including inflicting corporal injury, kidnapping, criminal threats, arson of an inhabited structure, evading an officer, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
According to authorities, on May 17, 2020, the defendant “violently attacked his girlfriend during an argument about her cellphone.” He reportedly “tore her clothing, punched her repeatedly, pulled her by the hair, hit her with the phone, choked her until she passed out, and pinned her down with his knees.”…