A Colusa man with a lengthy history of domestic violence was sentenced to more than three years in state prison on Monday.
Charles Edward Wesley, 38, was convicted June 28 of inflicting corporal injury on a spouse and unlawfully taking a vehicle in a plea deal with the District Attorneys Office that dismissed a felony charge alleging second degree robbery.
Wesley has a lengthy criminal history in Colusa County, court records indicate. He was convicted for battery with serious bodily injury and violation of probation in 2007, and again on the same charge in 2008. He was convicted of DUI and corporal injury to a spouse or cohabitant in separate instances in 2012.
In 2014, Wesley was sentenced to four years in state prison after pleading no contest to assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury in a plea deal that dismissed charges alleging first degree burglary of an inhabited dwelling, kidnapping, false imprisonment by violence, and battery, according to court records.
After his release from prison, Wesley was convicted in 2016 of corporal injury to the parent of his child, in a plea deal that dismissed charges that he failed to report as directed by probation and submit to drug testing, which resulted in his reinstatement on probation.
In 2018, Wesley pleaded guilty to making criminal threats in another plea deal with the District Attorney that dismissed charges alleging false imprisonment, assault with a deadly weapon, and domestic violence battery, for which he received three years in state prison, less 124 days time served.
In his most recent case, Colusa County Sheriffs Office arrested Wesley around 5 PM on May 5 at Colusa Casino Resort on suspicion of robbery, inflicting corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant, and auto theft.
He pleaded no contest to corporal injury and the unlawful taking of a vehicle in a plea deal that dismissed the second degree robbery charge.
Colusa County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey A. Thompson on Monday said another grant of probation for Wesley was futile when he sentenced him to three years and eight months in state prison, less 137 days for time served and custody credits. –