Ex-Convict Sentenced to 89 Years to Life for Attack on Estranged Wife in North Hollywood

LOS ANGELES—An ex-convict who was found guilty of stalking his estranged wife, breaking into her North Hollywood home, and abducting her in 2021 was sentenced Friday to 89 years to life in state prison. Anthony John Duarte, 58, was convicted March 13 by a downtown Los Angeles jury of 20 counts, including stalking with a restraining order in place, kidnapping, injuring a spouse, first-degree residential burglary, first-degree residential robbery, witness intimidation with a prior, vandalism and grand theft of a firearm. In a sentencing memorandum, Deputy District Attorney Ranna Jahanshahi wrote that Mr. Duarte has “suffered a myriad of prior convictions which are escalating in violence and severity,” and noted that he has engaged in a series of violent acts against other women—one dating back as far as the 1980s....