Mexican national sentenced to lengthy prison term for rape

September 4, 2008
Reported by Associated Press

A district judge has sentenced a man to serve 45 to 50 years in prison on convictions of kidnapping a woman in Shoshoni and raping her at knifepoint last December.

District Judge Nancy J. Guthrie on Tuesday [September 2] sentenced 21-year-old Jesus Jurado Soto-Cruz, originally of Mexico, to the maximum possible sentence.Authorities plan to deport Soto-Cruz back to Mexico after he serves his sentence.Soto-Cruz pleaded guilty last month. Authorities say he kidnapped the 19-year-old victim from the parking lot of a Shoshoni convenience store and raped her.Soto-Cruz then returned the woman and her car to the convenience store.Fremont County Sheriff's deputies arrested him after following his tracks in the snow to a nearby housing complex.

Voyeur gets 90 days in jail, deportation for incident in Yakima mall

Jose Luis Mendoza Castaneda, 26, was sentenced to serve 90 days in jail for looking up the skirt of a Yakima Valley Macy's employee, but the sentence is moot because he has already served his time, and he's being deported to Mexico. The incident occured February 29, when a Macy's security guard watch Castaneda walk behing a 19 year old employee's skirt and placed his cell phone camera up her skirt. He pled guilty, and also faces sex offender registration, a requirement which is moot due to the pending deportation.