North Hollywood : Man Gets Jail for Attacking Girlfriend

A North Hollywood man was sentenced Wednesday to 16 months in jail, three years’ probation and a year of domestic violence counseling after pleading no contest to attacking a girlfriend in violation of his probation from a prior domestic violence conviction involving the same victim, said Los Angeles City Atty. James Hahn.

Ricardo Orozco, 21, was sentenced after he entered his plea to the misdemeanor charge of battery in a dating relationship and violating probation from an Oct. 12 conviction for spousal battery, Hahn said. Orozco, who had been living with the woman at the time of the earlier incident, was dating her at the time of the latest one.

Orozco was arrested by LAPD officers following an incident that took place Feb. 1 in Hollywood, officials said.

The victim, a 34-year-old woman, told police she drove Orozco and another man from Burbank to Hollywood after Orozco requested a ride.

She said she dropped the two men off at Hollywood and Cahuenga boulevards, where they coincidentally met another male acquaintance.

The woman said Orozco became jealous when she went to a nearby bar with the other two men and reacted by striking her and forcing her to leave the bar, get in her car with him and drive away.

She said she stopped the car and ran to a phone booth to call police and that Orozco chased her, grabbed her and hit her repeatedly with his clenched right first.

Orozco then took her purse and fled, she said.