KNIFE-WIELDING SUSPECT TAKES PLEA

The Bakersfield man who held his girlfriend and her adult son against their will at knife-point has pleaded no contest to inflicting corporal injury to a spouse and resisting arrest.

Sheriff’s crisis negotiators coaxed 36-year-old Mario Cornejo out the home on Breckenridge Road a few hours after the incident on April 2nd.

Sentencing is next month.

Kelli Pierce