{"id":395501,"date":"2026-09-10T04:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T04:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/395501\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T04:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T04:24:08","slug":"jacksonville-man-takes-alford-plea-in-onslow-strangulation-assault-gets-9-to-20-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/395501\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville man takes Alford plea in Onslow strangulation assault, gets 9 to 20 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Jacksonville man entered an Alford plea to felony assault by strangulation in Onslow County Superior Court, according to online records.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Ryan Ciafardini, 46, entered an Alford plea, meaning he is treated as guilty without admitting the underlying conduct.<\/p>\n<p>Ciafardini was originally charged with the following:<\/p>\n<p>Felony assault by strangulation Misdemeanor assault on a female Misdemeanor crime of domestic violence <\/p>\n<p>The September 2025 warrant alleges that Ciafardini grabbed a woman by the neck, causing bruising, loss of vision and difficulty breathing. <\/p>\n<p>According to the plea transcription, Ciafardini received an active sentence of 9 to 20 months for the assault by strangulation charge. The plea transcription also states that he also entered an Alford plea to possession with intent to manufacture, sell or deliver methamphetamine in a separate case and received a consecutive suspended sentence of 9 to 20 months, with probation terms to be set by the court. <\/p>\n<p>The assault on a female and domestic violence charges were dismissed, according to the plea transcription. Court records show drug manufacturing, maintaining a vehicle or dwelling for a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia charges in the separate case were also dismissed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Jacksonville man entered an Alford plea to felony assault by strangulation in Onslow County Superior Court, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-395501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}