A pregnant Menlo Park woman was sentenced March 7 to five years in prison for stabbing her boyfriend after he commented on her prenatal weight gain and eating habits.
Maria Islas, 27, was sentenced by San Mateo County Superior Court Judge James Ellis in the stabbing incident, which occurred September 8.
She had pleaded no contest in January to charges that included assault with a deadly weapon and personally inflicting great bodily harm. A charge of attempted murder was dropped in a plea agreement.
The boyfriend, 18 at the time of the incident, suffered a punctured lung and a lacerated liver and no longer has the full use of his right arm as a result of the stabbing, said prosecutor Kathryn Alberti.
Ms. Alberti said he currently lives in Virginia with his mother and wants to care for the child.
Menlo Park bank robbed
The Bank of America branch in downtown Menlo Park bank was robbed Saturday afternoon, March 11.The suspect entered the bank at 635 Santa Cruz Avenue at about 1:40 p.m. and showed a teller a note demanding cash, said Menlo Park police.
Officers determined the suspect fled toward Menlo Avenue near Doyle Street, but a search didn’t turn up anyone.
The suspect is described as a white male, about 25 years old, 6 feet tall and weighing 150 to 160 pounds.
He was last seen wearing a dark blue plaid shirt and khaki pants, with shoulder-length blond hair that may have been a wig.
Anyone with information is asked to call the police department at 330-6300.
Two injured in Willow Road accident
It was almost a case for a helicopter airlift, police said, but a regular ambulance ended up taking to Stanford Hospital a man and a woman, both of whom were seriously injured in a Wednesday, March 8, three-vehicle accident reported at about 10:15 a.m. at the intersection of Bayfront Expressway and Willow Road.Other occupants in the vehicles were uninjured, police said.
Officers from the Menlo Park Police Department are investigating the accident.
— Bay City News Service
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