A man has been sentenced to up to four years in prison after being convicted of assault with a deadly weapon and false imprisonment.
33-year-old Jaelan Barnes will be eligible for parole after about a year after he was given credit for about seven months served in jail.
Prosecutors say Barnes held his former partner hostage with a kitchen knife in July of last year and then bit him in the face when he tried to run away.
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A man faces more than seven years in prison after a jury convicted him of holding another man hostage with a kitchen knife and biting the victim in the face.
The Washoe County District Attorney's Office says when officers arrived on scene, they found the victim, a 23-year-old man with teeth marks on his left cheek.
Authorities say the man, 24-year-old Jaelan Barnes got into an argument after their recent break-up and kept the victim in an apartment for more than an hour. Prosecutors say at one point Barnes stabbed the victim's couch and iPad, before the victim was able to get away. They say Barnes followed him and got into a fight when Barnes bit the man in the face.
A neighbor called 911 who prompted Barnes to run away. He was eventually arrested in January of this year.
Barnes is scheduled to be sentenced on July 10th where faces up to 6 years in prison for the charge of Assault with a Deadly Weapon, one year in the Washoe County jail for False Imprisonment, and 180 days in the Washoe County jail for Domestic Battery.
