A 45-year-old man was sentenced to more than nine years in prison for a one-day crime spree that included threatening a disabled former friend with a claw hammer and choking the elderly owner of Emil's Shoe Store in Woodland.
The criminal binge ended the same day with the culprit drunk in a Napa saloon.
Bill Lindelof provides more details:
Timothy Doughty, 45, was given nine years and four months in prison by Yolo Superior Court Judge Timothy L. Fall last week for committing the home invasion robbery and the robbery of the shoe store.
Doughty, originally from Napa, robbed his friend Jan. 10 in his Woodland home. During the attack, the friend testified, he was bound and threatened with a hammer by Doughty. Doughty then stole his ATM card and the victim's truck before fleeing.
The friend could not free himself from his bindings for about four hours.
Doughty, meanwhile, according to a press release from the Yolo County District Attorney's Office, drove to Emil's shoe store, where he grabbed the store owner from behind by the neck. The victim said Doughty was growling like an animal while he choked him.
Taking the owner's keys from his shirt pocket, Doughty then ripped the store telephone from the wall. Fortunately, the store owner's son was able to confront Doughty and get him to leave.
The District Attorney's Office said that Doughty drove off in the truck stolen from the first incident and was arrested hours later at a Napa bar in an intoxicated condition.
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