A Ukiah man was sentenced to 33 years in prison recently for an assault with a chain that broke the victim’s arm last fall, the Mendocino County District Attorney’s Office reported.
According to DA David Eyster, Timmy Kent Cooper, 61, was sentenced May 12 in Mendocino County Superior Court to 33 years to life in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Eyster had previously reported that Cooper was found guilty in February of assault with a deadly weapon after being accused of breaking someone’s arm with a chain on Gobbi Street in Ukiah. According to Mendocino County Jail records, Cooper was booked on Sept. 3, 2022, on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, after being arrested by the Ukiah Police Department.
Eyster explained that in an “evidentiary hearing conducted after the jury was excused, the District Attorney proved with certified court documents that Cooper has suffered four prior Strike convictions: residential burglary, two counts of robbery in Los Angeles County, and a bank robbery using a deadly weapon in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.”
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