By Krystal Smalley
ksmalley@wbcowqel.com
A woman involved in a stabbing incident this summer received her fate Friday morning and it was not as serious as it could have been.
Though eighteen-year-old Carolina Solano, who has a last known address in Swanton, Ohio, according to court records, did not face any assault charges for her role in the June 23 attack, she did plead guilty to two charges of tampering with evidence, both third-degree felonies.
“It does appear she wasn’t the main culprit,” acknowledged Crawford County Common Pleas Court Judge Sean Leuthold. “Miss Solano should have known better. She did have some culpability.”
The judge was referring to Solano luring her ex-boyfriend, Cesar Fuentes, to an area near McDonald’s in Galion in the early morning hours of June 23. Angel Ortiz, Solano’s boyfriend at the time, attacked Fuentes with a knife, stabbing him in the buttocks and the back of the legs. Though Fuentes escaped, Ortiz and a minor chased him down, took his cell phone, and broke his femur bone.
Leuthold believed Ortiz may have intimidated Solano into texting Fuentes for the meeting.
“I don’t know how you got mixed up in this mess. I don’t understand it,” Leuthold said. “Mr. Fuentes – his life has been practically destroyed.”
“I didn’t know it was going to lead to that,” Solano admitted.
Leuthold sentenced Solano to five years on community control and ordered her to pay $46,103.46 in restitution, an amount that Ortiz is expected to help pay, though the judge did not believe that would happen.
“No winners in this at all,” Leuthold said. “All losers – especially you.”
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