UFC Hall of Famer Diego Sanchez sentenced for 2025 gun charges

Ultimate Fighting Championship legend Diego Sanchez has not received jail time for his offenses last year. In July 2025, Sanchez was arrested for firing a pistol out of his window while riding past an automobile accident on an Albuquerque, New Mexico, highway. The arrest reports verified the weapon in question and identified recently spent bullet casings, while the driver, friend Derrick Montoya, admitted to the arresting officer that Sanchez had discharged his weapon and laughed about it.

The prosecutors sought a sentence of two years in prison based on the fourth-degree felony charge of discharging a firearm at or from a motor vehicle. He was also charged with a misdemeanor of negligent use of a deadly weapon, but per MMAJunkie , the latter was dismissed when Sanchez agreed to a guilty plea for the former. The price I have to pay Per local outlet KRQE , Sanchez was ultimately sentenced with five years of supervised probation, while he also will be required to complete 800 hours of community service.

As he took a plea agreement, there is no plan on an appeal. Instead, the longtime fighter took responsibility for his actions, saying so in a pair of statements following the sentencing hearing. “It was a foolish decision,” Sanchez said.

“I look back on it, and I own it, and I take responsibility for it, and now I won’t be able to have guns no more, and that’s the price I have to pay for my wrong decision. ” He continued , “All I can do is take accountability, own it, and spread positivity to the youth and the next generation to change these ways. Not to be shooting out windows like cowboys.