Man pleads guilty to breaking wife’s nose in Carmel Valley

A man who battered his wife after a little league game in the Carmel Valley and then fled has pleaded guilty.

Daniel Chartraw, 41, pleaded guilty Friday to domestic violence charges.

Chartraw was arrested after battering his wife in the car after a baseball game in May 2011 in front of their four children and one of the kids’ friends. The wife suffered a broken nose. For that incident, Chartraw also was charged with violating a restraining order resulting from a previous domestic violence conviction out of El Dorado County in 2009.

Chartraw bailed out of Monterey County Jail but failed to appear in court on Sept. 1, 2011. He later was apprehended by the U.S. Marshall’s Office and held in federal custody for wire fraud. While serving a 57 month sentence at Terminal Island, Chartraw was transferred to Monterey County for the pending domestic violence charges.

In the Monterey County case, Chartraw was sentenced to seven years in state prison, to run concurrent to his federal sentence, prosecutors said.