Lagmay gets new, 1-year sentence

LIHU‘E — Getting another apparent break while up on felony terroristic threatening and weapons charges was Le Beau Lagmay, a mixed-martial arts fighter already serving a one-year term at Kaua‘i Community Correctional Center.

He is the Kapa‘a man, 26, who was arrested and Tasered on terroristic threatening, drunk-driving and several other charges, around Thanksgiving 2009.

He was sentenced to a year in prison on those charges in August, and given credit for three months already served.

In court again Oct. 6, Lagmay in the newest case was originally charged with two counts of first-degree terroristic threatening (a class C felony punishable by up to five years in prison), second-degree reckless endangering and a class C felony firearms charge (being a person with a firearm or ammunition who is also under indictment for, or has waived indictment for, or has been bound over to the circuit court for, or has been convicted in this state or elsewhere of having committed a felony, or any crime of violence, or an illegal sale of any drug).

In a plea agreement, he was sentenced to a year in prison and five years probation on charges reduced to two misdemeanors, by 5th Circuit Judge Kathleen Watanabe.

She ordered the prison term run concurrently with his present sentence, gave him credit for time served, and also ordered Lagmay to complete an anger-management course.

Edmund Acoba, state deputy public defender representing Lagmay, said “alcohol and/or substance abuse is at the heart of all his problems.”

Acoba said he is working to get Lagmay into a residential substance-abuse-treatment program, where he is on a waiting list for admission.

Acoba said Lagmay does not meet acceptance criteria for Kaua‘i Drug Court.

John Murphy, county deputy prosecuting attorney, represented the state at the resentencing.