{"id":116100,"date":"2026-03-28T12:43:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T16:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/diego-sanchez-former-ufc-star-sentenced-for-illegal-weapons-possession\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T12:43:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T16:43:22","slug":"diego-sanchez-former-ufc-star-sentenced-for-illegal-weapons-possession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mma\/diego-sanchez-former-ufc-star-sentenced-for-illegal-weapons-possession\/","title":{"rendered":"Diego S\u00e1nchez, former UFC star, sentenced for illegal weapons possession"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Diego S\u00e1nchez Receives Sentence for Weapons Charges<\/h2>\n\nFormer UFC fighter Diego S\u00e1nchez has been sentenced to five years of supervised probation after pleading guilty to a felony firearms charge. The sentence was handed down on Thursday, marking a crucial point in the case dating back to last year.\n\nS\u00e1nchez, 44 years old, was arrested in July 2025 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Police reported that the incident involved shots fired into the air from inside a Jeep. The vehicle was near a traffic accident at the time of the event.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>People make mistakes. This is Albuquerque, the wild west. I made a mistake.<\/p><cite>Diego S\u00e1nchez<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nDuring the hearing, S\u00e1nchez expressed his commitment to sobriety and mental health, taking responsibility for his actions. Prosecutors had requested a two-year prison sentence, according to local reports.\n\nS\u00e1nchez rose to fame in the UFC in 2004, by winning the first season of The Ultimate Fighter. In 2009, he competed for a UFC championship. His fight against Clay Guida in 2009 was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame. The promotion released him in 2020.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diego S\u00e1nchez Receives Sentence for Weapons Charges Former UFC fighter Diego S\u00e1nchez has been sentenced to five years of supervised probation after pleading guilty to a felony firearms charge. The sentence was handed down on Thursday, marking a crucial point in the case dating back to last year. S\u00e1nchez, 44 years old, was arrested in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5975,12434,5639,228],"class_list":{"0":"post-116100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-diego-sanchez","9":"tag-gun-charge","10":"tag-probation","11":"tag-ufc"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}