Robber to spend 17 years in state prison

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Steven Nelson Broyles, 30, has been sentenced to 17 years and four months in state prison for many thefts from East County stores, identity theft, evading officers, and selling heroin inside jail.

Broyles pleaded guilty to all charges against him in March, but his sentence was delayed following hospitalizations when he swallowed a comb, a spoon, and heroin while in jail.

Steven Nelson Broyles, 30, has been sentenced to 17 years and four months in state prison for many thefts from East County stores, identity theft, evading officers, and selling heroin inside jail.

Broyles pleaded guilty to all charges against him in March, but his sentence was delayed following hospitalizations when he swallowed a comb, a spoon, and heroin while in jail.

Broyles was ordered to pay $5,000 to the owner of a car he stole following a high-speed chase in which he drove at 100 mph on Interstate 8 before he later abandoned the vehicle in Lakeside. He was also ordered to pay $420 to El Cajon Hobbies.

He also was sentenced for injuring another inmate, burglarizing Target stores, five petty thefts, and swiping cell phones from Walgreens.

Kidnappers receive life in prison

Michael Thomas Colace, 48, has been sentenced to life in prison plus 20 years for kidnapping a 70-year-old man in Spring Valley during a robbery as well as robbing a 7-Eleven in La Mesa and auto theft.

Colace pleaded guilty to all counts including elder abuse, using someone’s credit card, and burglary in incidents in Oct. 2013. Terri Marie Franck, 41, was sentenced to life in prison following a jury convicting her of kidnapping for robbery at the home of a Spring Valley man.

The pair tied and gagged the man, and dragged him through his house on Oct. 17, 2013 before stealing contents in his safe during a 4-hour ordeal. Colace robbed a 7-Eleven at 5742 Amaya Drive, and later burglarized a La Mesa house and stole a car.

Lakeside faces sentencing after pleading guilty to assault

Michael John Lazzaro, 23, of Lakeside, will be sentenced Nov. 20 after pleading guilty to stabbing a man to benefit a street gang and is expected to get nine years in prison.

The victim is black and was subjected to racial slurs by Lazzaro, who is white, in the Jan. 8 incident in the 12000 block of Mapleview St. in Lakeside. A hate crime was dismissed after Lazzaro pleaded guilty to most of the charges on Oct. 22.

A second man, Ryan Gallo, 23, pleaded guilty to felony assault. Gallo was sentenced to 180 days in jail and granted three years probation in El Cajon Superior Court. Lazzaro remains in jail on $1 million bail.