PORT ANGELES – A Port Townsend man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for assaults in the Sequim area.
47-year-old William Leoso pled guilty in Clallam County Superior Court to four counts of second-degree assault with a deadly weapon and unlawful possession of a firearm in the case.
He was arrested a year ago after Clallam County Sheriff’s Deputies first responded to reports a man had been shot in the foot and was being held against his will at a house in the 300 block of Secor Rd., Sequim. It turned out shot man had left the premises.
Deputies later learned the subject in question was at Olympic Medical Center with a gunshot wound to his foot. Deputies attempted to interview the subject who declined to participate in the investigation.
About an hour later, deputies responded to a felony assault in progress in the Carlsborg area where witnesses reported seeing a male suspect punching a woman repeatedly in the head with brass knuckles and holding a handgun to her head.
The investigation later identified Leoso was an acquaintance of the female victim in Carlsborg and the male victim from Secor Rd.
Leoso was later arrested without incident at his Port Townsend-area home. Jefferson County Detectives located evidence of the crime in Leoso’s possession, including a firearm that is believed to have been used in the assaults.