Thread: Houston-Galleria rapist gets 80-year sentence

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June 2, 2006, 2:22PM



Galleria rapist gets 80-year sentence
By DALE LEZON
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle

A jury recommended today that Juan Reyes Solis serve an 80-year prison sentence and pay a $10,000 fine for raping a woman in a Galleria parking garage.

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Solis' victim, a 21-year-old hairstylist, later told him that she hopes he lives in fear of assault by other inmates, just as she has known fear because of his attack on her in 2003.

"I want you to be bitter and angry like I am," the woman said, weeping as she delivered her victim impact statement in court.

She also told Solis, 23, that she will fight any effort to parole him. He can become eligible for parole after serving 30 years, prosecutors said.

The jury in state District Judge Mike Anderson's court convicted Solis of aggravated sexual assault on Thursday.

As they began considering his sentence, jurors heard testimony that Solis also had waged a reign of terror by breaking into several southwest Houston homes.

At the time of his arrest in 2003, police found numerous suspicious items in his car, including two masks, two pairs of gloves, a hatchet, a hammer and a tow rope.

Prosecutors said Solis forced the hairstylist into her car as she left her job at the Galleria. The attack was the most violent of several such incidents at the upscale shopping center in summer 2003.

The victim, who said Solis twisted her head in an apparent attempt to break her neck, later jumped from the car when he stopped at a red light.

Prosecutor Wendy Baker said Solis, an illegal immigrant, embarked on a "one-man crime spree" that ended only when he was arrested for breaking into an automated teller machine. Police found the masks and suspicious tools in his car.

Once Solis' fingerprints were available as a result of that arrest, police linked him to several burglaries at homes near the Galleria.

At least one victim, a woman who identified Solis in a photo lineup, reported that she was alone in her home in the 5400 block of John Dreaper when he forced his way through a window, prompting her to run out the front door.

Another woman described the shock of returning to her home in the 5200 block of Piping Rock to find eight pairs of her underwear neatly lined up on her bed and her closet ransacked.

Her jewelry and a gun had been stolen. Solis' fingerprints were found in her house, Houston police investigator M.R. Bortmas said.

Solis was convicted of burglary for that incident, as well as another residential break-in in which his fingerprints also were recovered, jurors learned.

He was serving three years in prison for the burglaries when a national police database linked his DNA to evidence recovered from the hairstylist's sexual assault. Solis showed no reaction when the guilty verdict was announced Thursday.

dale.lezon@chron.com


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This once again is another example of "wonderful, honest and hard working" illegal immigrants as espoused by their supporters and handlers but are in reality uncivilized, lawless cretons who don't respect the rule of law, are unable to act in a civilized manner and don't belong in this country. The damn jackasses in the administration and senate don't give a horse's ass about the thousands of Americans victimized by these savages unless one of their family members is victimized; then things would change.

"family values"

Here's another one we get to support!

Two words: Death Penalty