October 18, 2024 1:10 pm ET
The sentencing for former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez has been delayed till 2025.
At a sentencing listening to Friday on the Santa Clara County Corridor of Justice in San Jose, Calif., a courtroom official introduced the matter is sustained till early subsequent 12 months. A brand new date was not introduced.
No additional particulars had been revealed, although a public data officer informed MMA Junkie that Friday’s listening to was solely the submission of a report written by Velasquez’s probation officer.
Velasquez, 42, has been out on bail since November 2022 as he faces expenses of tried homicide (one depend), capturing at a motorized vehicle or plane (one depend), assault with a firearm (three counts), assault with a lethal weapon (three counts), willfully discharging a firearm from a car (one depend) and carrying a loaded firearm with intent to commit a felony (one depend).
Velasquez initially pleaded not responsible to the costs however changed his plea to no contest in August. Velasquez was arrested almost two-and-a-half years in the past after he allegedly pursued and shot at a man, Harry Goularte, accused of molesting Velasquez’s then 4-year-old son at a daycare. Velasquez allegedly chased a automotive carrying Goularte and members of the family throughout a high-speed chase with a bullet striking Goularte’s stepfather, inflicting damage.
Goularte faces a felony cost of lewd acts with a minor and has a trial setting and movement listening to scheduled for Nov. 13. There may be additionally a coinciding civil lawsuit by the Velasquez household towards Goularte, his household, and their companies.
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