LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A decide sentenced a Las Vegas man to seven months in jail as a substitute of jail after he was caught on video beating a girl in a highway rage incident.
Jose Soriano didn’t apologize in court docket for his actions final summer time. Video of him hitting Sarah Goolsby went viral.
“You’re thinking that it’s a minor accident. You’re gonna have words, and he might scream at me, but you never think something like this is going to happen,” Goolsby advised 8 Information Now on June 15, 2024.
On the time of the interview, Soriano left Las Vegas. The U.S. Marshals arrested him two months later in Newport Information, Virginia.
Images displaying Jose Soriano shortly after the crash between him and Sarah Goolsby. (Credit score: Witness)
On Wednesday, Soriano was handcuffed as he appeared earlier than Clark County District Court docket Decide Jasmine Lilly-Spells for his sentence.
“Mr. Soriano, according to the laws of the state of Nevada, you are hereby judged guilty of attempt battery with substantial bodily harm,” Decide Lilly-Spells stated.
Lilly-Spells sentenced him to 19 months within the Nevada Division of Corrections however suspended it, which suggests he prevented jail. As an alternative, as a part of his plea, Soriano will serve seven months within the Clark County Detention Heart.
Soriano pleaded responsible April 21 to tried battery with substantial bodily hurt.
In response to the Las Vegas Metro Police Division, Goolsby was driving on Rainbow Boulevard close to Spring Valley Parkway on June 9 when Soriano pulled his car in entrance of her. Goolsby thought she might have hit his automotive.
As she was grabbing her driver’s license, Soriano punched her.
“It’s bigger than me. I hate that it happened to me, but it could have been way worse, and if we catch him, and this is what brought him to justice, I am totally good with it,” Goolsby advised 8 Information Now on Aug. 14.
Soriano has been in jail since pleading responsible. He is scheduled to be launched by late November. He declined a request by 8 Information Now for an interview.
He has a court docket listening to scheduled for December the place he could possibly be launched from probation.
