Former UFC Champ Cain Velasquez was denied bail this week for an attempted murder case out of California.
He was arrested last week after he allegedly tried to shoot and kill a man who has been accused of molesting his young relative.
Judge Shelyna Brown denied bail saying that Velasquez’s alleged actions were “reckless by any standard” and that the “risk is too great” to release him.
Harry Goulate has been charged with molestation after one of Velasquez’s underage relatives said Goulate molested him more than “100 times”.
Goularte, 43, was charged with a single count of lewd and lascivious act with a child under the age of 14 late last month.
Velasquez’s relative told police that Goularte took him into a bathroom at a home daycare center that Goularte’s mother runs and touched his genitals
Prosecutors said that Velasquez allegedly followed Goularte’s parents on their way to pick him up in the Bay Area.
After following them for some time, Velasquez allegedly shot once at their car. Then Velasquez rammed into their vehicle and shot several more times.
Goularte’s stepfather was shot in the arm and torso.
Velasquez attorney Mark Geragos blasts the no-bail for his client, “the idea of keeping him in jail while (the accused pedophile) Goularte runs free is the ultimate [example] of the criminal-justice system gone mad”.