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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
CLOVIS — A Clovis man was sentenced this week to two years in prison for assaulting his grandmother last spring, according to a news release from the 9th Judicial District attorney.
A Curry County jury convicted Narcizo Soto, 20, of fourth-degree felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and two counts of petty misdemeanor negligent use of a deadly weapon.
The charges stemmed from March 9, 2017, when Soto “got into (an) argument with his elderly grandmother and held a handgun to her head,” according to the release.
When a neighbor intervened, he “then pointed the gun at the neighbor, threatened to shoot her, and fired it into the air twice before fleeing the scene.”
Soto was arrested two days later, according to jail records.
The verdict following a jury trial Wednesday morning before Judge Fred Van Soelen, who “sentenced Soto the maximum of two years in the Department of Corrections,” the release said.
Since the crimes were considered “serious violent offenses,” Soto must serve 85 percent of that sentence before being eligible for release.
Soto was represented by public defender Sandra Gallagher, and the case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Arwen Gaddis and Lara Maierhofer.
