A sentencing hearing for a Durango man who pleaded guilty to kidnapping and attempted sexual assault has been postponed to Jan. 22.
The hearing was scheduled to take place Wednesday morning.
According to District Judge William Herringer, Jeffery Gallegos’s public defense lawyer John Moran requested the postponement, telling Herringer that Gallegos was unfit to attend because of his client being in “significant pain and taking narcotic pain medication” after recently undergoing surgery.
Police began investigating Gallegos 18 months ago, when he was arrested for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 22-year-old woman at the American Legion bar in April 2013.
In September, Gallegos pleaded guilty to kidnapping and attempted sexual assault on the 22-year-old woman at the American Legion, where he worked as a bartender. Since then, two more women have come forward to police saying Gallegos sexually assaulted them as well.
Under the plea agreement that he worked out with prosecutors for the American Legion case, Gallegos faces anything from probation to 12 years in prison, depending on what Judge Herringer decides at a sentencing hearing next month.
cmcallister@durangoherald.com
