
Cody Riggs
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Cody Riggs will also serve federal prison time.
NEW MARTINSVILLE -- A man charged with stabbing his girlfriend 13 times will spend four to 10 years in prison.
Cody Riggs pleaded guilty to malicious wounding and was sentenced to two to 10 years.
He was arrested, last September, in Harrison County, after fleeing from the crime scene in Reader.
Prosecutor Tim Haught filed a recidivist information, saying that Riggs had prior felony charges, which upped his minimum sentence from two to four years.
Riggs will serve this time in federal prison, at the same time he is serving a five year federal sentence for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
When he is done with that sentence, Riggs may face a sentence of up to 15 years in Brevard County, Florida for a parole violation.
Riggs is currently being held in the Northern Regional Jail.
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