COEUR d'ALENE - A 29-year-old man with a history of violent crimes was sentenced on Monday to 15 years in prison after being convicted recently for felony aggravated battery.

District Court Judge John Luster ordered that 12 years of Steaven M. Valley's sentence be fixed with no chance for parole, and he was given credit for the time he has already served since his arrest in June.

Valley was arrested by the Kootenai County Sheriff's Department when it was discovered he had beaten his girlfriend and his friend with a vodka bottle, said Kootenai County Prosecutor Barry McHugh.

The two victims received significant injuries, McHugh said. The girlfriend was beaten on the head and still suffers brain ailments, and the friend suffered an injury to his eye socket, requiring the placement of a plate in his orbital lobe, McHugh said.

The Press reported in June that both victims were taken to Kootenai Medical Center after the incident at a trailer on Ridge Drive off Corbin Road, near Post Falls. Valley, who authorities say was from Oregon, had been living at the residence near Post Falls for a couple months before the incident.

Just a day before that incident, Valley had been arrested on two counts of simple battery in a similar offense. The victims of the vodka-bottle beating bailed Valley out of jail shortly after he had been arrested for that earlier incident.

The three began drinking alcohol at the woman's home after he was freed.

The victims told law enforcement investigators that Valley requested a "threesome," and when the two started kissing, Valley beat them with the bottle.

McHugh said Valley has a significant criminal history, including violent offenses that include attempted murder and first-degree assault.

During sentencing Monday, Luster pointed out Valley's adult conviction for attempted murder in 1997, when Valley was 17 years old.

In that matter, Valley stabbed a friend in the neck after a disagreement.