Guatemalan Machete Man Gets Almost Three Years for Chopping Incident

Guatemalan national, Julio Lopez-Perez will serve the next two years and eight months in prison after pleading guilty to inflicting vicious chop wounds to Nerie Barrios.  The incident happened in November 2021 when Barrios was attending a friend’s wake in Lords Bank Village.  While inside the house talking with a few friends, including Lopez-Perez, when he was struck in the head.  He then realized that he was bleeding profusely from the head.  Barrios had been attacked with a machete and chopped twice in the head, cracking his skull.  Today at sentencing, Justice Nigel Pilgrim after considering the severity of the offense handed down a four-year prison sentence, but awarded him a deduction for Lopez-Perez’s early guilty plea.  That leaves him with two years and eight months, effective May ninth, 2022.