Ex-UFC champ Velasquez released on $1M bail

Cain Velasquez was granted $1 cardinal bail Tuesday aft 8 months successful custody.

The erstwhile UFC heavyweight champion is being charged with attempted execution and 10 different gun-related charges successful Santa Clara County (Calif.). Velasquez is being accused of chasing down successful his conveyance and shooting astatine a man, Harry Goularte, who is being charged with sexually assaulting Velasquez's 4-year aged son.

Velasquez volition person to deterioration a GPS tracker and not travel wrong 300 yards of the alleged victims successful the case, per Velasquez's lawyer Mark Geragos.

"It's been a agelong slog and I americium precise grateful," Geragos told ESPN. "Nothing is arsenic touching arsenic watching him having it descend successful with his woman Michelle there."

Velasquez, 40, had been successful jailhouse since Feb. 28 and pleaded not blameworthy successful August. He was granted bail Tuesday by justice Arthur Bocanegra astatine the extremity of a pre-trial proceeding aft antecedently having been denied bail 4 times by justice Shelyna Brown. Velasquez allegedly changeable Goularte's step-father Paul Bender erstwhile helium fired into the conveyance Goularte was riding in. Bender sustained nary superior injuries.

Velasquez followed Goularte's motortruck successful his ain conveyance connected an "11-mile, high-speed chase" done the metropolis of San Jose, rammed the motortruck and fired a 40-caliber handgun aggregate times into the truck, which carried Goularte, Bender and Goularte's mother, Patricia, according to the DA's office. Bender was deed with a bullet, though helium sustained non-life-threatening injuries.

Velasquez's lad told constabulary Feb. 24 that Goularte took him into the bath of a daycare halfway and touched his genitals, per a tribunal document. The kid said Goularte said not to archer anyone what happened and that this concern mightiness person occurred "100 times." The kid told constabulary that they witnessed Goularte spell into the bath with different kids, arsenic well.

Geragos said helium having a proceeding was cardinal to Bocanegra making this decision. He said he's not definite erstwhile the proceedings volition be, but Velasquez volition person a accidental to spell location opening Tuesday.

"Instead of listening to each this hyperbole and nonsense bandied about, we had a proceeding with transverse examinations and witnesses nether oath," Geragos said.