Kijahe Molina Pleads Guilty to Stabbing Off-duty Policeman

It’s been a year since twenty-year-old Kijahe Molina was charged with wounding an off-duty police officer.  The call center agent, then nineteen, is accused of stabbing Police Constable Zani Zavala at Good Will Supermarket.  When he appeared in the magistrate’s court today, in the company of attorney Hurl Hamilton, Molina threw himself at the mercy of the court, asking for probation instead of a custodial sentence.  After pleading guilty to wounding, Molina was fined nine hundred dollars and bound over to keep the peace for a period of one year in the sum of one thousand dollars.  The prosecutor did not object to the fine, despite Molina’s attorney expecting that he would have been given probation.  Molina is a first-time offender with no previous convictions.