A 25-year-old Redwood City man who pleaded no contest to felony assault related to a parking dispute that left a 61-year-old woman with a broken bone in her leg in 2017 was admitted into a mental health treatment program and sentenced to three years probation Friday, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office.
Out of custody on a $50,000 bail bond, Marcus Kropp was also required to complete 32 hours of anger management training and 60 hours of public service work by Judge Donald Ayoob, according to prosecutors.
On Dec. 3, 2017, Kropp is believed to have pushed a 61-year-old woman in the chest and pulled her out of a car after she filmed him swinging at her husband with a 2-by-4. He is said to have grabbed the board like a baseball bat after the neighbors got into a verbal dispute and swung it at the 67-year-old man, who backed up and blocked it with his hands. Kropp then slapped a phone out of the hands of the man’s wife, who was filming the incident from a car, according to prosecutors.
Kropp is said to have dragged the woman out of the vehicle and thrown her to the ground, breaking her fibula. He later threw her phone over a fence, according to prosecutors.
District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said Kropp’s admission to the Pathways mental health program is indicative of a new approach criminal justice officials are taking with regard to those with significant mental health conditions.
“Instead of locking them up, we’re getting them treatment, counseling and psychiatric care,” he said.
Kropp’s defense attorney Raymond Buenaventura could not be immediately reached for comment.
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