A sign marks the entrance to Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Army Maj. Isaac A. Gutierrez was sentenced to 17 months in prison after pleading guilty to domestic violence and communicating a threat during a court-martial at Fort Bragg Sept. 21, 2026. (April Olsen/U.S. Army)
An Army major was sentenced to 17 months in prison after pleading guilty to domestic violence and threatening to kill his wife at their home on Fort Bragg, N.C.
Maj. Isaac A. Gutierrez, 35, a military intelligence officer with the 82nd Airborne Division, was convicted Sept. 21 at a general court-martial at Fort Bragg.
The conviction by a military judge came after Gutierrez pleaded guilty to one count each of domestic violence and communicating a threat, the Army’s public court-martial records show.
The charges stemmed from a Jan. 24 confrontation between Gutierrez and his wife at their on-base residence after she had returned from visiting her father out of state, the Army Office of Special Trial Counsel said in a statement.
During an argument that lasted more than an hour, Gutierrez held his wife at gunpoint and threatened to kill her, the statement said.
A daughter who was in the house at the time became frightened by the altercation and called her older sister who was at a friend’s house, where an adult then called police to request a welfare check.
A military police team that responded took Gutierrez into custody and notified his chain of command, the statement said.
Gutierrez graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and earned the Ranger tab afterward.
Maj. Lauren Browning, an Army special trial counsel prosecutor, said the case demonstrated that a soldier’s professional performance does not excuse violent conduct.
“The accountability for Maj. Gutierrez’s wife and family shows that the Army takes domestic violence seriously,” Browning said in the Army statement.
The Army Criminal Investigation Division’s Carolinas Field Office and the Fort Bragg Office of the Provost Marshal investigated the case. Browning and Capt. Seneca Tsang of the 82nd Airborne Division’s Office of the Staff Judge Advocate prosecuted it.
Gutierrez is at least the fifth soldier this year to be convicted at a Fort Bragg court-martial for an offense involving domestic violence, according to a Stars and Stripes review of the Army’s public court-martial records.
All five pleaded guilty before a military judge. Sentences varied substantially, ranging from 23 days to 54 months in confinement.
Gutierrez will serve his sentence at the Midwest Joint Regional Confinement Facility at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
