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Habitual offender gets 30 months for violating probation conditions
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Posted on Jul 28 2011
Superior Court presiding judge Robert C. Naraja sentenced a habitual offender on Wednesday to two years and six months in prison for violating probation conditions.
“Your prior convictions are overwhelming!” Naraja told Mario M. Reyes.
The judge said the court has not been presented with anything to show that Reyes has changed.
Naraja said the new sentence will be consecutive to Reyes’ jail sentence in the other case. This means the prison term will be added to the prison sentence imposed on Reyes in the previous case.
In January 2011, Superior Court associate judge Kenneth L. Govendo sentenced Reyes to the maximum of 12 months for assault and battery, and six months for disturbing the peace. Govendo said there will be no parole.
In this case, Reyes reportedly ran over his girlfriend with a car when she jumped off to escape from further beating on April 29, 2010.
During the trial in December 2010, the jurors acquitted him on charges of assault with a dangerous weapon, and aggravated assault and battery. Govendo, however, found him guilty of assault and battery and disturbing the peace.
Reyes was on probation for assaulting the same victim twice when he committed the latest offenses.
The Office of the Attorney General then moved to revoke his probation. The court granted the revocation of probation and the sentencing hearing was held Wednesday.
Assistant attorney general Shelli Neal expressed concern for the safety of the victim once Reyes is out of jail again.
Neal described Reyes as a batterer and a violent man and that placing him on probation does not work.
Assistant public defender Richard Miller, counsel for Reyes, had recommended a sentence of six months in prison.
