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Bay Area man gets nearly 26 years in horrific domestic violence case


A Solano County Superior Court judge on Friday sentenced a 30-year-old Vacaville man to nearly 26 years in state prison following his July conviction for a series of horrific domestic violence crimes.

Michael Milad Behnamnia heard Judge Jeffrey C. Kauffman hand down the sentence of 25 years, eight months in Department 1 in the Justice Center in Fairfield.

Afterward, Behnamnia returned to the Stanton Correctional Facility in Fairfield, where he awaits transfer to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

On July 11, a jury found Behnamnia guilty of attempted torture, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, two counts of making criminal threats, forcible oral copulation, forcible rape, four counts of corporal injury to a spouse/girlfriend, domestic battery, and kidnapping. All are felonies except for the domestic battery charge, a misdemeanor.

The jury also found Behnamnia guilty of  personally inflicting great bodily injury and  personally using a deadly or dangerous weapon.

Over the course of several months, Behnamnia repeatedly physically abused his girlfriend inside their Vacaville home, court records show.

On July 18, 2023, the victim escaped from the home after enduring multiple days of violence at the hands of Behnamnia, according to wording in a Solano County District Attorney’s Office press statement issued late Friday.

After intervention by a good Samaritan, Vacaville police officers responded to the woman’s location and obtained her initial statement.

When Detective Dayna Hardwick, of the police department’s Special Victims Unit,  interviewed the victim, she disclosed multiple previous domestic violence crimes that resulted in a broken leg and several broken teeth.

The woman further disclosed that on July 14, 2023, while driving to their home, Behnamnia struck her repeatedly on her head/neck and made threats to harm her and kill her family. Upon arriving at their home, Behnamnia physically carried her into the residence against her will. Once inside the home, Behnamnia took the victim’s phones to prevent her from calling for help.

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