By Cherrie Anne E. Villahermosa
Variety News Staff

AN ex-convict has pleaded guilty to forgery and assault and battery and was sentenced to two years of imprisonment.
Diego S. Mundo appeared in Superior Court for a change of plea hearing with his counsel, Chief Public Defender Elisa Long.
Assistant Attorney General Anne Marie Roy agreed to dismiss the other charges in exchange for the guilty plea.
Associate Judge David A. Wiseman accepted the plea and sentenced Mundo to three years of imprisonment, all suspended except for 18 months with credit for time already served for the offense of forgery.
For the assault and battery, Wiseman sentenced Mundo to one year of imprisonment, all suspended except for six months with credit for time served.
Wiseman said both sentences will run consecutively without the possibility of parole.
Mundo was remanded to the custody of the Department of Corrections after the change of plea hearing and will be released from jail on Feb. 22, 2008.
He will be placed on probation for 24 months after completing his jail term.
Mundo was also ordered to pay a fine of $100 and a court assessment fee of $50.
He was charged with two counts of forgery and one count of deception in July 2006.
The Attorney General’s office stated that on May 24, 2006, Mundo forged his former common-law wife’s signature on the Department of Public Safety’s certificate of ownership for their car which he sold to another person.
The AGO also charged Mundo with assault and battery after he struck a man with a beer can on Aug. 16, 2006.