Man sentenced to prison after cafe attack

Surveillance video played in court showed a defendant breaking a bottle and crossing a Stateline casino bar to attack another man.

Henri Osmin Hernandez Munoz, 29, was sentenced Tuesday to 20-52 months in prison in connection with an April 24, 2023 incident.

Hernandez Munoz claimed through his lawyer that the attack victim attacked him in the club upstairs, although bouncers kicked him out.

“A person who can do all this to me, what can he do to someone else,” the victim said through an interpreter.

“My client accepts responsibility for what he did,” attorney Mary Brown said. “This crime must be seen in the bigger picture. My client feared for his life.”

Prosecutor Bethany Towne played the video of the attack where Hernandez Munoz was sitting in the bar and broke the bottle as soon as he saw the victim enter.

He asked the judge for probation so he could continue to support his family, including his mother in El Salvador.

“This will never happen again,” he said. “I can change.”

Hernandez Munoz was taken into custody for transfer to state prison. He is not a citizen and will likely be deported if released.

• A California woman admitted to looting a rental home of more than $14,000 worth of property.

Amanda Sue Nelson entered guilty pleas to grand larceny and misdemeanor failure to appear.

Under a plea deal, she would get 12 to 30 months on each charge and must pay $14,278 in restitution and $500 in extradition fees.

Her maximum sentence could be 2 to 8 years in prison.

The theft occurred on March 27, 2022. She was given a court date of July 18, 2023 in Tahoe Township Justice Court and did not show up.

She will be sentenced on November 26.