13-TIME DEPORTEE SENTENCED FOR KIDNAPPING, ASSAULT IN OREGON

PORTLAND, OR (Fox News) – A Mexican man who has been deported from the United States at least 13 times has been sentenced to 35 years in prison after pleading guilty to assault, kidnapping and other charges in separate attacks on two women on the same day.

Local TV stations reported from the courtroom that Sergio Jose Martinez received the sentence Friday in Portland, a day after another man in the United States illegally was found not guilty by a jury in San Francisco in the shooting death of a woman that touched off a fierce national immigration debate.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions highlighted Martinez’s case when he visited Oregon in September.

A spokesman for the county prosecutor’s office did not immediately return a call seeking comment on the case.

On July 27, 2017, KOIN reported:

Police previously arrested the 31-year-old man linked to two violent attacks on women in Northeast Portland more than 10 times in the past decade, according to records obtained by KOIN 6 News.

Sergio Jose Martinez remains in the Multnomah County Detention Center with bail set at more than $2 million.

On Wednesday, Martinez was arraigned at the Multnomah County Justice Center on a total of 13 felonies including burglary, sodomy, sexual...Read More HERE