A Yuba City woman was sentenced to three years in state prison on Monday for luring a man to a secluded area near Williams, where he was robbed and stabbed.
Colusa County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey A. Thompson agreed with District Attorney Matthew Beauchamp that the behavior of 40-year-old Isela Gradilla, a mother and grandmother, was too outrageous to merit probation, despite pleas from her attorney to show her mercy.
Isela Gradilla admitted shortly after her Oct. 15 arrest that she used a ruse to drive Arturo Jauregui-Flores, 34, of Williams, to an area near Lonestar Road, in Arbuckle, on Oct. 11, where he was reportedly stabbed multiple times during the course of a robbery by two of Gradilla’s acquaintances.
Beauchamp said Gradilla pre-planned the attack and had gotten help from her friends to carry out the crime.
Misael Agraz Nunez, 43, of Williams, and Jesus Villareul-Basurto, 25, of Willows, are facing attempted first degree murder and robbery charges in connection to the case. Both have pleaded not guilty.
Public Defender Brandon Williams said Gradilla was well acquainted with Jauregui-Flores, who survived the attack, and that she had prior to the robbery been a victim of his abuse.
Williams asked for Thompson to consider probation because Gradilla, despite a criminal past, had no recent offenses.
Sutter County court records indicate convictions in 2013 for identity theft and burglary, and 2014 convictions for probation violations. In 2012, Gradilla was arrested in Butte County in connection to an identity theft ring, whose victims were largely elderly individuals, and eventually pleaded guilty to burglary and identity theft, according to court records.
In exchange for her quick admission of guilt to robbing Jauregui-Flores, Beauchamp dismissed the remaining charges of attempted first degree murder, two special allegations of use of a deadly weapon, and first degree burglary of an inhabited building.
Gradilla, who has remained in custody at the Colusa County Jail since her arrest, will be remanded over to the California Department of Corrections to serve out her prison sentence, less the credit for time already served.
Thompson said her being an alleged prior victim of Jauregui-Flores was not an excuse for orchestrating the attack, and that Gradilla was ineligible for probation, even if he was inclined to consider it.