Velasquez, 43, pleaded guilty to attempted murder in October 2024 and was sentenced to five years in prison. He is serving his sentence at the Correctional Training Facility, also known as Soledad State Prison in Soledad, California. Part of his sentence includes prison time and house arrest.
After the now-retired professional mixed martial artist was first incarcerated, Velasquez’s release date was listed as March 2026, but inmates can receive time off for participating in rehabilitation programs.
Velasquez was arrested in February 2022 after a high-speed chase in which he fired several bullets from a handgun at a car carrying a man named Harry Goularte, who is accused of sexually abusing the hunter’s son at a daycare center owned by Goularte’s mother. Multiple bullets were fired at the vehicle, but Goularte’s stepfather Paul Bender was the only one struck by a bullet. Bender suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
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