Close to 26 years after a Redwood City woman was sexually assaulted several times in her apartment, one of the two men involved received a 40-year prison term Friday, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office.
Having pleaded no contest to seven felony charges in connection with the 1992 assault in August, Jose Carrera Perez, 53, will join his accomplice Jose Luis Zamperio in state prison. Extradited from Mexico in October to face rape, sodomy and forcible oral copulation charges, he will receive 1,507 days credit for time served, according to prosecutors.
On Sept. 29, 1992, Perez and Jose Luis Zamperio are said to have entered the victim’s Redwood City apartment while she was asleep. The woman was pinned down and had her mouth covered with a cloth while she was sexually assaulted several times by both men, according to prosecutors.
Neighbors who heard her screams called police, who interrupted the attack when they knocked on the door and caused Perez to escape through a window. Zamperio was found hiding under the victim’s bed. An arrest warrant was issued for Perez, whose vehicle was found nearby, according to prosecutors.
Zamperio pleaded no contest to seven felony sexual assault charges in 1993 and was sentenced to 35 years in state prison, according to prosecutors.
Perez’s defense attorney Jeff Jackson could not be immediately reached for comment.
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