HAGÅTÑA (The Guam Daily Post) — A man found guilty of strangulation and assault faces a 29-year sentence for committing a felony while on pretrial release.
On Wednesday, a press release from the Office of the Attorney General announced the guilty verdict for Ray Flores Jr., who was charged in the Superior Court of Guam in July with kidnapping, strangulation and assault, with special allegations for commission of a felony while on felony release.
Flores was found guilty of the strangulation as a third-degree felony and assault as a misdemeanor.
“Just last month, in just 30 days, 89 defendants violated our judges’ orders. Allegedly creating an additional 18 crime victims that might not have suffered had defendants like Ray Flores not been released.”
Incident
Flores and co-defendant Anselmo Jose Untalan were charged in July after a male Chalan Pago resident accused the two of punching him repeatedly and threatening to kill the man with a rifle, according to court documents.
Untalan was accused of punching the victim in the face and aiming a rifle at him before the victim was forced into a vehicle and driven to an apartment where Flores was. The victim at the apartment again was punched and taken into a car, where Flores sat in the back seat with the victim.
According to court documents, Flores continued to assault the victim while the vehicle was moving and used a black tie to strangle the victim, who was going in and out of consciousness. Eventually, the men went back to the apartment, where Flores continued to assault the victim.
Flores was on pretrial release for a 2020 felony case, and there was an active bench warrant for his arrest at the time he was charged in July.
Ray Flores Jr.
