LAKEPORT — A Nice man charged with stabbing two people at a gas station last spring settled that case, and at least five others pending against him, on Friday.
The Lakeport Police Department alleged Ronald J. Blesio stabbed two men during a fight at the Shell gas station on June 12. He reportedly remained at large until Oct. 23, when a Lake County Sheriff”s Office sergeant located him while conducting a traffic stop in Kelseyville.
Blesio, 35, faced six felonies in connection with the June incident. He pleaded no contest Friday to one lesser battery count, according to court records.
“There were difficulties in proof of this case,” prosecutor Sharon Lerman-Hubert said.
She said neither victim could remember what led to the stabbings because they were intoxicated during the early-morning incident.
Blesio could face up to six months in jail for his plea in the stabbing case. However, he could be detained in the county longer because of an admission in another case.
The Lake County District Attorney”s Office charged Blesio with two felonies for allegedly possessing marijuana in early May.
He pleaded no contest Friday to a felony count of illegally cultivating marijuana, according to court records.
Blesio faces a maximum of three years in custody for the crime, but the time would be served locally under state correctional realignment, Lerman-Hubert said.
In exchange for the plea, all other charges and allegations in the marijuana case as well as counts in two other pending cases were dismissed, according to court records.
The dropped cases charged misdemeanor counts of providing false registration and possessing drug paraphernalia for another alleged incident in May and a misdemeanor count for allegedly resisting police on Oct. 23.
Blesio resolved a fifth case Friday when he pleaded no contest to battery stemming from a mid-April situation, according to court records. The other two misdemeanors in that case were dropped.
The prosecution decided to dismiss a sixth case, which alleged a felony failure to appear, because it was improperly charged, Lerman-Hubert said.
Blesio had a seventh pending case, which alleged he thrice violated the terms of his probation from a February 2010 conviction. Court records did not indicate whether the parties resolved that matter Friday.
Blesio remains in custody at the Lake County Hill Road Correctional Facility. His sentencing date is March 19, according to Lerman-Hubert.
An email to R. Justin Petersen, who represented Blesio on the stabbing case, went unreturned as of Tuesday evening.
