SeanTX
04-14-2014, 02:31 PM
As this one found out, committing sexual assault on duty is one of the few things cops can't get away with virtually all the time ...
http://www.sacbee.com/2014/04/04/6296522/former-west-sacramento-cop-gets.html#storylink=cpy
Former West Sacramento officer to spend life in prison
By Darrell Smith
dvsmith@sacbee.com
Published: Friday, Apr. 4, 2014 - 11:08 pm
Last Modified: Saturday, Apr. 5, 2014 - 12:57 am
Sergio Alvarez’s estranged wife likened him to a firestorm that destroyed everything in his path. His family. His home. His marriage. His law enforcement career. The lives of the women he kidnapped and raped.
“Sergio did not choose to stop raping women,” read Rachael Alvarez’s letter, recited by a court advocate at the former West Sacramento police officer’s sentencing Friday in Yolo Superior Court. “He was stopped.”
Now the ex-cop, husband and father of three will spend the rest of his life behind bars, sentenced to 205 years on 18 counts of kidnapping and sexually assaulting women while patrolling the graveyard shift. A Yolo County jury in February found Alvarez guilty on the 18 counts but deadlocked on 10 others.
Alvarez, 38, sat expressionless as Judge Timothy Fall meted out multiple 25-years-to-life sentences for forced oral copulation and rape; 7 years-to-life terms for kidnapping; and more years still for rape and oral copulation under color of authority.
Alvarez’s sentencing ends a disturbing chapter for West Sacramento and its police department. One of their own cruised the overnight streets in 2011 and 2012, targeting women on the margins – prostitutes, addicts – and forcing himself on them.
His victims were “down-and-outers,” as lead Yolo County prosecutor Garrett Hamilton called them – women who Alvarez assumed would not be believed if they came forward.
Alvarez checked through warrant files like shopping lists to select one of his victims. He stopped others on the pretense that they were under the influence before hauling them away. Alvarez sexually attacked the women in his patrol car, DNA evidence showed. He also attacked them in back alleys and wooded lots.
“They were selected by Sergio Alvarez,” Hamilton said at trial.
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http://www.sacbee.com/2014/04/04/6296522/former-west-sacramento-cop-gets.html#storylink=cpy
Former West Sacramento officer to spend life in prison
By Darrell Smith
dvsmith@sacbee.com
Published: Friday, Apr. 4, 2014 - 11:08 pm
Last Modified: Saturday, Apr. 5, 2014 - 12:57 am
Sergio Alvarez’s estranged wife likened him to a firestorm that destroyed everything in his path. His family. His home. His marriage. His law enforcement career. The lives of the women he kidnapped and raped.
“Sergio did not choose to stop raping women,” read Rachael Alvarez’s letter, recited by a court advocate at the former West Sacramento police officer’s sentencing Friday in Yolo Superior Court. “He was stopped.”
Now the ex-cop, husband and father of three will spend the rest of his life behind bars, sentenced to 205 years on 18 counts of kidnapping and sexually assaulting women while patrolling the graveyard shift. A Yolo County jury in February found Alvarez guilty on the 18 counts but deadlocked on 10 others.
Alvarez, 38, sat expressionless as Judge Timothy Fall meted out multiple 25-years-to-life sentences for forced oral copulation and rape; 7 years-to-life terms for kidnapping; and more years still for rape and oral copulation under color of authority.
Alvarez’s sentencing ends a disturbing chapter for West Sacramento and its police department. One of their own cruised the overnight streets in 2011 and 2012, targeting women on the margins – prostitutes, addicts – and forcing himself on them.
His victims were “down-and-outers,” as lead Yolo County prosecutor Garrett Hamilton called them – women who Alvarez assumed would not be believed if they came forward.
Alvarez checked through warrant files like shopping lists to select one of his victims. He stopped others on the pretense that they were under the influence before hauling them away. Alvarez sexually attacked the women in his patrol car, DNA evidence showed. He also attacked them in back alleys and wooded lots.
“They were selected by Sergio Alvarez,” Hamilton said at trial.
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