A Truchas woman pleaded guilty in four cases where she had been held without bail since March 2025 after being found a danger to the community.
Antonia Martinez, 44, was released from jail to spend a year at an in-patient facility after her plea deal was signed on Dec. 11. The judgment and sentence was not entered into the court record until Jan. 21.
Martinez pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated battery causing great bodily harm and one count of battery on a peace officer, from cases in 2023 and 2025. While she only pleaded guilty to charges stemming from two cases, the plea deal lists four total cases.
According to the plea deal, Martinez has a suspended sentence of four-and-a-half years, to be served as supervised probation with the first year spent at an in-patient treatment program. She was released into the custody of the program.
The aggravated battery charge is from December 2023, when she stabbed her friend in the back of the neck, after beating her with a thorny stick. In the March 2025 case, she bit a deputy who was trying to arrest her.
When District Judge Jason Lidyard ordered her to be held without bail in March, there was a laundry list of accusations from other cases, which included:
• Allegedly yelled at workers who came to repossess her vehicle, yelled at others to get guns and threatened to kill the repo workers in January 2017.
• Allegedly confronted “a neighbor about stealing firewood, threatened that neighbor with a machete, damaged a table, then stated that she would return with a gun” in January 2018.
• Allegedly tried to ram another vehicle with her own, led police on a pursuit, then punched, kicked and bit officers in November 2020.
• Allegedly went to a neighbor’s house, then fought with the neighbor after being asked to leave in November 2021.
• Allegedly threatened a neighbor with a pipe and knife, used the pipe to break vehicle windows and used the knife to cut the plastic on a greenhouse in January 2022.
• Allegedly attacked her father, pulled his beard, punched him and threw boiling water at him, then punched her mother; found a knife and threatened her father with it in January 2023.
• Allegedly accused a co-worker who was giving her a ride, of doing something to her vehicle, locked the co-worker in her house and tried to batter the woman in April 2023.
• Allegedly tried to pull out the plexiglass divider in a police car in June 2023.
• Allegedly damaged a neighbor’s wall in September 2023.
• Allegedly started arguing with a neighbor, got a stick, hit the neighbor with the stick, got a knife, and stabbed the neighbor with it in December 2023.
• Allegedly got into an argument with her father and bit him and scratched his face in May 2024.
• Allegedly fought with her father’s teenage granddaughters and when her father tried to intervene, bit her father in October 2024.