A Stayton man has been sentenced to more than a year-and-a-half in prison after being convicted of attempting to suppress the testimony of a woman he allegedly assaulted last year.
Jared Daniel Limbeck, 39, pleaded guilty Jan. 6 in Marion County Circuit Court to witness tampering and was sentenced to 20 months in prison and two years of post-prison supervision. He had been scheduled for a trial that day and faced up to five years in prison.
Limbeck was originally charged Sept. 6, 2022, with strangulation and fourth-degree assault for an incident two days prior in which he allegedly attacked and injured a woman in a domestic assault. Then, on Sept. 8, 2022, he called the victim from the Marion County Jail and attempted to coerce her into ignoring a court summons and changing her testimony, which led to two counts of tampering with a witness charged in a new case on Oct. 11, 2022.
As part of a plea agreement, prosecutors dropped the assault case.
Limbeck has a history of domestic violence arrests including in 2013 when he was charged with second-degree assault for attacking a woman with a knife, and in 2018 when he was charged with fourth-degree assault for injuring the same victim, both incidents occurring in front of the woman’s children. For the 2013 assault, Limbeck was sentenced to two months in jail, and for the 2018 assault he was sentenced to 15 months in prison.
