Intoxicated Doylestown Woman Misfired Loaded Gun At Boyfriend: DA

A Doylestown woman who authorities say attempted to fire a loaded gun at her boyfriend while their four-year-old daughter cried inside their Regency Woods apartment pleaded guilty to felony assault charges Wednesday, the Bucks County District Attorney’s office announced.

Authorities say Esperanza Motolinia, 41, repeatedly pulled the trigger of a loaded gun at her boyfriend, only to have it fail to discharge during an alcohol-fueled incident in August.

Motolinia, 41, pleaded guilty to two felony counts of aggravated assault, two counts of recklessly endangering another person and one count each of terroristic threats and resisting arrest in connection with the incident.

Authorities say Motolinia’s blood alcohol content was .18 percent when she had the altercation with her boyfriend, Michael Bishop.

Motolinia’s defense attorney said she remembers “very little” about the evening of Aug. 9, when Central Bucks Regional Police department officers were called to her Old Dublin Pike apartment.

Police said when they arrived, Motolinia and Bishop were standing outside and Bishop’s clothing was “badly torn, and he had scratches and other marks on his upper body,” according to a press release fro the District Attorney’s office.

The couple’s four-year-old daughter was inside crying when authorities arrived, according to information from the District Attorney’s office.

Bishop told police that Motolinia had physically and verbally attacked him, “screaming obscenities and striking him repeatedly in the head while he was holding their child,” information from the District Attorney’s office said.

After Bishop let the girl down, Motolinia then chased him around the apartment with a semiautomatic, .380-caliber handgun, pulling the trigger “at least four times,” Assistant District Attorney Ashley Towhey said in court.

The gun had a loaded magazine, but it failed to fire because it did not have a cartridge in the chamber, police said.

When officers told Motolinia she was being arrested, she ran to the door, screaming, “I’m going to (expletive) kill him,” the District Attorney’s office said.

According to authorities, she fought officers’ attempts to handcuff her, “at one point kicking one officer so hard in the leg that he fell to the floor,” the statement from the District Attorney’s office said.

Motolinia will undergo a mental health and drug and alcohol evaluations before she is sentenced. She is currently lodged at the Bucks County Correctional Facility.

Motolinia told the judge that she suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorder and depression, and that she is receiving medication for those conditions at the prison.