Gerald James Viarrial, Assault and Firearms Charges, New Mexico 2024

State: New Mexico
Category: Violent Crime
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Grimy Times Exposes Brutal Crimes of Gerald James Viarrial, a Pojoaque Pueblo Man Sentenced to 20 Years for Assault and Firearms Charges.

ALBUQUERQUE – Gerald James Viarrial, 54, a member of Pojoaque Pueblo who resides in Santa Fe, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 240 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for his conviction on assault and firearms charges.

Viarrial was arrested in January 2015, and charged with assault, firearms, and child abuse offenses in a seven-count indictment filed on January 21, 2015.

The indictment charged Viarrial with assaulting a female and two minors with a firearm; assaulting one of the minors by strangulation, causing him to suffer serious bodily injury; committing child abuse; and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.

Law enforcement authorities first learned about Viarrial’s criminal conduct on March 24, 2014, when they received a verbal report of child abuse from a social service provider.

The mother and two minor male victims testified about the August 2010 ordeal, where Viarrial forced them to accompany him to a shooting range located in Pojoaque Pueblo, and then became enraged when he could not locate keys for one of his vehicles.

The mother testified that Viarrial raised the handgun and pointed it at the two oldest children, who were then 11 and 13 years old, and threatened to kill them for being ‘worthless.’

Viarrial’s sentence is a result of a three-day trial, where a federal jury returned a verdict finding him guilty on all four assault charges and the firearms charge.

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