George Vela, 28, of Portales, was sentenced Thursday to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to kidnapping and aggravated fleeing from a police officer stemming from a Feb. 20, 2007 incident, the Portales News-Tribune reported.

A charge of criminal sexual penetration, along with other charges, were dropped as part of a plea agreement, prosecutors told the News-Tribune.

Portales police were called to Roosevelt General Hospital in February where a distraught woman told police she had been held against her will by Vela and only managed to escape when he left the house where she was being kept to go to the store, the News-Tribune said.

A short time later, police officers and Roosevelt County sheriff's deputies found Vela in Portales, but he sped away from the officers, running several red lights, and eventually stopped near the hospital and tried to enter the emergency room where the victim was being treated, the paper reported.

But sheriff's Deputy Malin Parker and an on-duty paramedic at Roosevelt General Hospital were able to stop Vela before he entered the emergency room, the News-Tribune said. 

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