A former Pierce County sheriff’s sergeant has been sentenced for strangling a woman and threatening her with a machete. FOX13
home drunk, slapped a woman awake, choked her several times, held a machete near her throat and threatened to kill her and her children, according to court documents.
He eventually surrendered to a SWAT team at his home and has been in custody since then. The woman told law enforcement she thought she would die during the attack, documents said. Less than a month before, Carpenter had been sentenced to time served after pleading guilty to felony harassment in a 2018 stabbing in Tacoma. He was subsequently fired from the sheriff's department after working there for 25 years.Other charges in the November assault including kidnapping, assault and harassment were dropped as part of a plea agreement, prosecuting attorney’s office spokesperson Adam Faber said.
Carpenter's attorney, Bradley Barshis, told the newspaper he thought it was a good resolution and that Carpenter wasn’t someone who needed to stay in jail. "This is a guy that has essentially served and protected our community for 25 years," Barshis said. "An individual who worked on the SWAT team and made sure our communities were made safe."that I have read and agree
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