Sexual predator sentenced to nearly 17 years


Published/Last Modified on Wednesday, June 3, 2009 4:13 PM MDT


A  Douglas Policeinvestigation last year has lead to the conviction and sentending of an area man with multipole sexual assault complants.


Lionel Valenzuela Pereida, 11-14-67, was sentenced to 16.75 years in prison for 3 counts of sexual assault and 1 count of sexual conduct with a minor.

The convictions were on a Douglas Police Department case of several sexual assault offenses that were reported back in September of 2008. 

Douglas Police Detectives investigated the incidents in which Pereida sexually assaulted a local Douglas 16-year-old juvenile on several occasions starting in July of 2004.  The sexual assaults continued through September of 2008 and the victim was now 20 years old.  The sexual assaults had gone unreported until the September 2008 incidents. 

Pereida was indicted in October 2008 on several sexual offenses which he committed between July of 2004 and September of 2008. 

Douglas Police Detectives arrested Pereida on October 24, 2008.  Pereida then went through a jury trial this March and was convicted on 3 counts of sexual assault, which are class 2 felonies, and 1 count of sexual conduct with a minor, a class 6 felony.  Pereida was then sentenced to 16.5 years in prison in the Arizona Department of Corrections. 

 

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