GREENFIELD — The Orange man who stabbed his mother’s friend in the head in 2018 will now begin serving a five-year prison sentence.
Matthew G. Hansen, 32, was transported on Monday from the Franklin County House of Correction to the Massachusetts Correctional Institute-Cedar Junction in Walpole. He previously pleaded guilty to single counts of armed assault with intent to murder, assault and battery on an elderly or disabled person, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, assault and battery on a public employee, and mistreatment of or interfering with a police dog.
Hansen was sentenced to five years to five years and a day behind bars for the first two counts. The sentences will run concurrently. According to court documents, he accrued 433 days of credit toward his time. He faces probation for the other three charges.
Hansen, whose last known address is on Daniel Shays Highway, was staying at his mother’s trailer on East River Street on April 23, 2018, when he got off the couch, went into the kitchen, picked up a knife and stabbed his mother’s friend, a 61-year-old woman, according to Craig Lundgren, who was the Orange police chief at the time.
Hansen then headed toward another mobile home when Orange police, along with K-9 Orka, searched for him, Lundgren said. With the help of the police dog, Orange Police Officer Chris Bisceglia and state troopers found Hansen, who then fled on foot. A “violent struggle ensued” before Hansen was brought into custody within an hour of the original report, according to an Orange Police Department press release.
The woman who was stabbed received several stitches at Athol Hospital.
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