Bay Area man pleads to assault on a cop, faces seven years in prison

A 31-year-old Vacaville man on Thursday pleaded no contest to assaulting a police officer with likely great bodily injury and resisting arrest on New Year’s Eve 2022. He faces more than seven years in prison when sentenced in the coming weeks in Solano County Superior Court.

Terrence Travon Mitchell, who appeared for a previously scheduled preliminary hearing setting, entered no-contest pleas to five felony counts and Judge William J. Pendergast dismissed seven others — including assault with a deadly weapon...