A Durango woman who pleaded guilty earlier this year to stabbing another woman in the neck in 2017 was sentenced Friday to four years’ probation.
Ashleigh Noland, 31, appeared before District Court Judge William Herringer in black pants and a black sweatshirt to be sentenced for second-degree assault, a Class 4 felony. She was facing five to 16 years in prison before signing a plea agreement with the 6th Judicial District Attorney’s Office.
Law enforcement accused Noland in May 2017 of stabbing Keesha McCoy in the neck, leaving a ¾-inch gash and sending her to Mercy Regional Medical Center with “serious injury,” documents show.
The two were hanging out with a group of people by the Animas River behind north City Market, and one of the witnesses thought Noland “was on ‘meth’ and was acting strange,” Durango Police wrote in arresting documents. After about 20 minutes, a witness told law enforcement, Noland said, “I gotta go,” stabbed McCoy in the neck and ran, according to arresting documents.
Law enforcement found and arrested Noland at Durango Urgent Care, where officers found a bloody knife on her person and bloody shoes.
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