Superhombre ?
Posted on 07/31/2007 2:17:35 AM PDT by ruination
An illegal immigrant who was about to be deported has been charged with raping three Charlotte women in a series of attacks that left police frustrated and female joggers leery for nearly two years.
Jose C. Rivera, 26, was in Atlanta awaiting deportation when the rape charges were filed Friday. The charges will stop the deportation proceedings.
Rivera is accused of attacking three women in different parts of Charlotte between April 2004 and Sept. 2005. Police say he talked his way into a victim's home, attacked another in the common area outside her apartment, and then, wearing only red underwear, grabbed a jogger who was running alone.
A month after that rape, in October 2005, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police announced that they had evidence connecting the three rapes, but had been unable to identify the attacker. They used DNA to link the cases.
It's unclear what evidence detectives now have to connect Rivera to the attacks. But last year, he was convicted of receiving a stolen vehicle. As a felon, he would have been required to surrender a DNA sample.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police would not comment on details of the case Monday. Spokeswoman Julie Hill said detectives had not interviewed Rivera and fear the publicity could jeopardize their investigation. The warrants, however, are public record.
As Mecklenburg's immigrant community has grown in recent years, illegal immigration has become a controversial topic. Since last spring, the Mecklenburg sheriff has been working to identify illegal immigrants among jail inmates and get them deported.
Records show Rivera, who's from Honduras, has been jailed in Mecklenburg County at least eight times since 2004. In November 2006, he was deported, a spokesman with Immigration and Customs Enforcement said.
Most recently, Rivera spent five weeks in the Mecklenburg jail on breaking and entering charges.
Because he was not charged with a violent felony and was about to be released, the sheriff turned him over to immigration officials Thursday, sheriff's spokeswoman Julia Rush said.
Rapes by strangers are uncommon in Charlotte-Mecklenburg and across the country -- and more difficult to solve than acquaintance rapes. Nationally, about seven of 10 women who report sexual assaults know their attacker. Each of the women Rivera is accused of raping was attacked in the morning by a man with a weapon.
The first was April 2, 2004. A 32-year-old woman told police a stranger talked his way into her apartment on Roseview Lane off Eastway Drive around 10:45 a.m. Once inside he pulled out a handgun and raped her. Police would not say what the man said to get in the door.
On Feb. 19, 2005, a 41-year-old woman told police a man overpowered her outside apartments on Woodway Hills Drive off Independence Boulevard around 4:30 a.m. He forced her to perform oral sex on him and raped her. The man used a sharp instrument as a weapon.
Then, on Sept. 25, 2005, a female jogger told police a man grabbed her and threatened her with a screwdriver as she ran along East Boulevard in Dilworth around 7 a.m. The woman said the man pulled her behind a building near Springdale Avenue and raped her. He was wearing only red underwear, and a white cloth covered much of his face.
Last January, police said the serial rapist may have attempted to strike again, after a 41-year-old woman in Myers Park fought off a man with Tae Bo, a type of kick-boxing exercise.
The woman told police she was walking alone when he came up behind her and reached his hands between her legs to try to pick her up.
She screamed and kicked the man, who fled without physically injuring her.
That woman's description of her attacker closely matched the description given by the woman attacked in Myers Park, police said. Rivera has not been charged in that case.
Jails...just a hilton for a night or two for criminals! And, they know this!
Superhombre ?
Hey, wait a minute! I though serial rape was a noncrime... Kinda like purjury.
...And illegal immigration!
What would Hillary do?
Doing the jobs Americans won't do...
So how much jail time did he do for this felony ??????
Apparently not much because....
In November 2006, he was deported, a spokesman with Immigration and Customs Enforcement said.
So now it's July '07.....this POS is back.....& *already* served another 5 weeks ???
Most recently, Rivera spent five weeks in the Mecklenburg jail on breaking and entering charges.
So do ALL criminals get off this lite in NC or only the *illegal* ones ???
serial (ILLEGAL)rapists....
jorge bush/the lib-dems/no cajones republicans ideal of guest workers!!!!
We need this type of people and Chertie here is going to see that we get plenty of them.
There are more on the way as I speak. More Americans also who will be assaulted or murdered at their hands.
While our wonderful government is playing hide the illegal sometimes in plain sight, people are being raped and murdered and robbed, etc.
Our goverment’s only rule: Never uphold the law where illegals are concerned; even if it means the lives of innocent Americans.
Democrats, Republicans, it makes no difference, the majority of both parties do nothing to secure our borders.
Absolutely, only the vast majority of americans—still out at the mall or ensconsed in reality tv, i am convinced—will not wake up until somebody THEY KNOW PERSONALLY raped or murdered. Unfortunately that will take a lot of raping or murdering to get people awoken and alert to this national travesty.
What a despicable shame those in government don't use the same common sense and get the wall built ASAP.
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And the criminals in Washington applaud wildly...
A serial rapist, huh?
According to FBI experts who have studied serial rape, one technique that is commonly used by serial rapists is to bite and clench their victim’s upper lip, just below the nose. Apparently, this produces a paralyzing effect on the victim and makes the rape easier to facilitate.
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