By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – A 20-year-old Centralia resident implicated in a case in which a 37-year-old Centralia man was beaten inside his car in the parking lot at Providence Centralia Hospital entered into a plea deal and was sentenced to time served.
David Serrano Mosso was charged Aug. 3 for the July 28 incident and held on $500,000 bail.
Charging documents in the case describe the victim as meeting someone he’d sold some wheels to, in order to get paid, and two males getting into his car, one of them shoving a pistol into his ribs and them telling him to drive out to a wooded area. Police at the time said he got scared, and pulled into the hospital parking lot where he was pistol whipped.
He said he noticed a third male following them in a white Honda-style car.
Last Thursday afternoon, Serrano Mosso made an Alford plea to second-degree assault, stating he did not commit the crime but wanted to take advantage of a plea offer.
The charges of first-degree assault and first-degree kidnapping were dropped.
The following day, he was sentenced to 64 days in jail, up to 12 months of community custody and ordered not to have contact with the victim for 10 years.
The standard range for second-degree assault, given he had no criminal history, was three to nine months, but both sides agreed justice would be best served with a lower than usual sentence, according to court documents.
Lewis County Senior Deputy Prosecutor Will Halstead said that was because of the “facts in the case.”
Police are still looking for the other person or persons involved, Halstead said today.
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For background, read “Prosecutors: Centralia man’s refusal to drive to wooded area gets him pistol whipped” from Thursday August 4, 2016, here [1]