A 20-year-old man suspected of stabbing a female jogger multiple times is expected to stand trail in a Westminster courtroom Tuesday, an Orange County District Attorney’s statement said.
On Oct. 23, 2012, James Anthony Rivas, 20, of Rossmoor, is alleged to have approached the 27-year-old as she was jogging through a residential neighborhood in the 3200 block of Bostonian Drive.
Rivas is charged with one felony count each of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and mayhem, and sentencing enhancements for premeditation and deliberation for attempted murder, bodily injury and personal use of a deadly weapon.
He knocked the woman to the ground from behind and stabbed her with a knife on her arm, face and hand, the statement said.
The jogger was treated at a hospital for nonlife-threatening injuries and released a week later.
Rivas was arrested two days later at his home at the 12000 block of Davenport Road in Los Alamitos. A motive for the attack has not been released.
If convicted, Rivas faces 11 years to life in prison. He is being held on $1 million bail.