Belmont man gets 90 days jail in violent domestic case

(KRON) — A Belmont man who faced trial in a violent 2023 domestic case took a plea deal on Friday from San Mateo County prosecutors. Armando Flores Verduzco, 60, was accused of punching a woman in the face dozens of times and choking her before threatening to kill responding police officers.

Flores Verduzco pleaded no contest to felony false imprisonment by violence and a misdemeanor charge of assault and battery. Five other charges were dropped as part of the plea deal, including injuring a spouse or cohabitant, assault likely to produce great bodily injury, battery upon a peace officer, resisting an executive officer, and resisting a peace officer or EMT.

In exchange for the no contest pleas on two of the seven charges, Flores Verduzco was sentenced to serve 90 days in county jail and be placed on four years of probation. He was ordered to have no contact with the victim for 10 years, relinquish all firearms, submit to search and seizure, abstain from alcohol and controlled substances, and complete 104 hours of domestic violence counseling.

On the night of August 16, 2023, neighbors reported to 911 that they heard screaming coming from an apartment in the 1000 block of Continental Way in Belmont. Flores Verduzco and the victim had been cohabitating for 13 years and living in the reported apartment, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office.

Arriving officers found the victim with multiple visible injuries and learned Flores Verduzco punched her in the face approximately 30 times and choked her with his hands, prosecutors said. Flores Verduzco claimed that the two were arguing when the victim hit him first.

When police moved to arrest Flores Verduzco, “he started screaming incoherently and resisted arrest … at one point he headbutted an officer and police used WRAP to bring him under control,” the DA’s office wrote. “He threatened to kill the officers for arresting him.”

Flores Verduzco is expected to begin his 90-day jail sentence on Sept. 8.