By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – A plea deal has been offered for the Centralia woman charged with a stabbing outside a Chehalis bar, but her lawyer said he hasn’t yet had time to present it to her.
Lena A. Castillo, 24, remains in the Lewis County Jail since a fight last month outside Garbe’s Bar and Grill on Northwest Chehalis Avenue.
Lena A. Castillo
Castillo is charged with first-degree assault.
Prosecutors allege the victim started the physical altercation but that Castillo continued attacking 22-year-old Ashley Stewart with small knife after Stewart stopped fighting and was on the ground.
Both females are from Centralia.
Castillo was in Lewis County Superior Court this afternoon where defense attorney Mike Underwood said he wanted to push her trial date out farther into the future.
Underwood told the judge he needs to get an investigator to see if there were other witnesses, he needs time to sit down and go over all the materials and he hasn’t yet spoken with his client about the plea deal extended by prosecutors.
Judge James Lawler suggested instead the parties return to court next Thursday.
Lewis County Senior Deputy Prosecutor Will Halstead declined outside the courtroom to say what the deal was.
Stewart was treated for four stab wounds to her stomach and one to each leg and was expected to make a full recovery. Castillo told police the Jan. 12 dispute was about her ex-boyfriend.
Chehalis police called the fight mutual combat and said after the arrest they couldn’t prove who owned the pair of brass knuckles that turned up in the restroom where the stabbing victim was tended to by friends.
Castillo has pleaded not guilty.
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For background, read:
• “Police: “Mutual combat” between two women in Saturday assault outside bar” from Monday January 14, 2013 at 12:19 p.m., here
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
Either neither of them or both of them should be locked up. This is crap. It was a mutual fight but only one of them is in jail…dumb. It might be ghetto wtf but its also unfair.
More scum. . .lock em up! Get the kids away from this shit so they have a chance! She might not have started it but she went beyond self defense if ashely stoppped fighting and ms tweaker kept stabbing. Sorry but I have no sympathy for a dumb ass that has kids and acts like she does. She deserves all coming for her. How can she be improving her life and acting like this. She has only stepped back in my eyes never is stabbing someone making bettter life choices.
Mutual combat should bring mutual charges
No one gender has an exclusive on being Trash.
She’s guilty as hell! Take ownership!
Lele has came along ways ashley should be sitting in jail for starting it this is bs
Ghetto