A 33-year-old Bradenton man accused of beating his girlfriend to death has a history of domestic violence stretching back more than a decade, court records show.
Roger Villasana’s Sept. 3 arrest in the killing of 34-year-old Yassmin Montoya came less than two years after prosecutors dropped charges stemming from another girlfriend’s report that he assaulted her repeatedly and threatened to kill her, according to court records. And court records show that case was not an isolated incident but part of a broader pattern.
Over the past 15 years, Villasana has been tied to around a dozen domestic-related cases, some of which prosecutors later declined to pursue. Others ended in felony convictions, prison sentences, protective injunctions and repeated arrests…