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Two men sentenced for beating, pistol whipping another man

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Two Midvale men charged with beating and pistol-whipping a man last year have been sentenced — one to prison time, the other to jail.

The attack initially left the victim hospitalized with spinal fractures and other injuries. Charging documents add that the victim also had a visible imprint of a shoe on the left side of his forehead and that he suffered a concussion.

Joseph Russell Mikulski, 40, and Zachary Alan Wood, 26, each were charged in 3rd District Court with one count of second-degree felony aggravated assault for the episode on May 15, 2016, in which they intervened in an argument between the victim and his girlfriend at the couple’s residence near 7000 West and 8600 South in Midvale.