Hernandez Munoz
Security video played in court showed a defendant break a bottle and cross a Stateline casino bar to attack another man.
Henrri Osmin Hernandez Munoz, 29, was sentenced to 20-52 months in prison on Tuesday in connection with an April 24, 2023, incident.
Hernandez Munoz claimed through his attorney that the victim of the attack attacked him in the club upstairs, though bouncers kicked him out.
“A person who could do all this to me, what could he do to someone else,” the victim said through an interpreter.
“My client accepts responsibility for what he did,” attorney Mary Brown said. “This crime should be viewed in the course of the bigger picture. My client was in fear for his life.”
Prosecutor Bethany Towne played the video of the attack where Hernandez Munoz was sitting in the bar and broke the bottle as soon as he saw the victim come in.
He asked the judge for probation so he could continue to support his family, including his mother in El Salvador.
“This will never happen again,” he said. “I can change.”
Hernandez Munoz was remanded into custody for transfer to the state prison. He is not a citizen, and will likely be deported when he’s released.
• A man who twisted a little girl’s arm to take away a cell phone while she was trying to call for help for her mom was sentenced to 28-72 months in prison on Tuesday.
Topaz Ranch Estates resident Timothy Shayne Kaecker admitted to child abuse in July in connection with his Jan. 19, 2023, arrest.
The girl comforted her mother as the woman told about what happened in the home.
The family had returned from a school art show when the mother complained that Kaecker’s dogs got into the house and pooped inside the children’s rooms. She told the judge she was packing a bag for the children to leave while Kaecker cleaned up and he tried to stop her. She tossed the phone to the girl to call 911, but Kaecker grabbed her and took the phone. Kaecker held the woman down during a struggle over their infant child in a car seat.
They eventually were able to get the phone and call for help and Kaecker was arrested.
Kaecker apologized during his statement, but when the judge asked what he was sorry for, he never mentioned either the struggle with the woman or twisting the girl’s arm.
• A California woman admitted she looted a vacation home rental of more than $14,000 in property.
Amanda Sue Nelson entered guilty pleas to grand larceny and felony failure to appear.
Under a plea deal she would receive 12-30 months on each count and have to pay back restitution of $14,278 and $500 in extradition.
Her maximum sentence could be 2-8 years in prison.
The theft occurred March 27, 2022. She was given a July 18, 2023, court date in Tahoe Township Justice Court and failed to appear.
She is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 26.
• A former Douglas County jail deputy who kissed an inmate received a suspended 364-day jail sentence on Tuesday.
Dominic David Lavezzo, 31, was having a mental health crisis, hearing voices and having hallucinations at the time of the April 28, 2023, incident.
He admitted to gross misdemeanor unauthorized custodial conduct.
“He was not in control of his own life much less anyone else’s,” Pence said. “The inmate reached out to him and was kind.”
Prosecutor Chelsea Mazza said Lavezzo testified during a preliminary hearing the day of the incident and she detected something odd about him.
Both sides and the judge agreed that sentencing him to active jail time would be complicated.
