Adam Thomas Medina
A Sacramento man who tried to strangle a woman during a drunken rage was sentenced to up to five years in prison on Monday.
Adam Thomas Medina, 42, was sentenced to more than four years after he broke down a door at the Tahoe Ridge and punched the woman several times, tearing out a chunk of her hair on Feb. 12, 2018.
Prosecutor Chelsea Mazza read a letter from the woman, who said Medina had threatened her before when he’d been drinking.
“I ignored many red flags when someone who says they love you threatens to hurt you,” she said. “He said it was just drunk talk.”
Defense attorney Justin Clouser said Medina served as a U.S. Army combat medic from 1998 to 2006, winning a Bronze Star.
Part of the reason it took four years to get Medina to sentencing was that while he was free on bail on the battery case, he was involved in a drunken driving collision with serious injury in California. He was sentenced to 19-60 months in prison with 406 days time served. He was ordered to pay $10,000 in restitution to the woman and $385 in extradition fees.
A man with a history of breaking into vehicles and stealing received a suspended prison sentence.
According to court documents Christian Kealoha Bishop, 30, broke into a white 2017 Jaguar parked in the Trader Joe’s parking lot located in Indian Hill in October 2018. The windows had been shattered and Bishop took a messenger bag containing the owner’s work papers, three checkbooks, various gift cards, and a flash drive containing personal information.
Records showed Bishop has a string of larceny across Western Nevada.
“Communities get tired of thieves, so be aware that the world is getting tired of you,” said District court Tod Young. “You want to be someone different, I’m all for that, but you go out and steal and you’ll come back here to see me and you will serve those eight years.”
• Probation was revoked for a man who violated his conditions.
Thomas Matthew Adams, 52, admitted to violation of the terms of his conditions and is serving 12-36 months in prison.
Adams was originally arrested in November 2018 on a count of sales of heroin in the amount of .4 grams. Adams has several multiple charges of possession, transporting and selling of a controlled substance on his record.
• A man with five counts of possession of several controlled substance and a dangerous drug without a prescription received a suspended prison sentence.
According to court documents Cristian Jose Morales, 26 was arrested December 2021 after a traffic violation led to the discovery of possession of methamphetamine, marijuana, cocaine, oxycodone, and possession of a dangerous drug without a prescription, baclofen.
“You are here on drug charges, you seem to take that fairly lightly, but I don’t,” said District Court Judge Tod Young.
If Morales violates the terms of the suspended sentence, he will face 19-48 months in prison.
