KING5.com
Posted on May 27, 2010 at 2:22 PM
Updated yesterday at 5:22 PM
BELLINGHAM, Wash. - An illegal Mexican immigrant will be sentenced in Whatcom County for the rape of a homeless woman. But what makes this case even more troubling is that this man has a history of crime in the U.S. and has been deported multiple times.
"This is very frustrating," says Whatcom County Deputy Prosecutor Dona Bracke.
Frustrating because, according to court documents, Hector Salinas, 38, has been deported at least five times. He has been convicted of robbery, theft, carrying a weapon and selling narcotics in Washington state and California.
The crimes date back to 1994. In almost all cases, he was sentenced to time in prison.
"All of these crimes, yet he continues to cross back over the border and hurt more people," says Bracke.
Bracke was the prosecutor against Salinas during the rape trial which ended with a guilty verdict in March. He will be sentenced June 8 in Whatcom County under the state's 3 strikes law. That means Salinas may spend the rest of his life behind bars with no chance for parole.
This news comes just days after the KING 5 Investigators revealed that the suspect in a rape last weekend in Edmonds, Wash. has been deported to Mexico nine times.
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