SURPRISE, Ariz. — A 27-year-old man has been sentenced to prison after he traveled from California to Arizona last October to kidnap and attack his pregnant ex-wife.
Garrett Headrick was sentenced in Maricopa County Superior Court to 21 years in prison after the defendant pleaded guilty to attempt to commit second-degree murder, kidnapping and stalking.
Headrick was taken into custody last year after Surprise police officers responded to a neighborhood where a resident witnessed a man dragging a woman by her hair into a home.
The Maricopa County Attorney's Office said the woman and her three children were leaving for a soccer game when Headrick approached them with a metal bar and forced them inside the residence.
Prosecutors said Headrick then assaulted, restrained and threatened to