BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) -- A 42-year-old man faces five years in prison after pleading no contest to a deadly stabbing in Taft.

Michael McClintock on Thursday pleaded no contest to a charge of involuntary manslaughter and is scheduled for sentencing Oct. 2, according to court records.

On Nov. 27, Randy Eugene Stark, 63, was found with a stab wound to his chest in the 300 block of Crystal Street, according to sheriff's officials. He was declared dead at the scene.

McClintock was identified as the suspect and tracked to Midland, Texas, where he was arrested in January, officials said. He was returned to Kern County and charged with first-degree murder. That charge was dismissed under the plea bargain.

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