(KRON) — A convicted Napa rapist who’s serving a life sentence was denied parole. Prison inmate Gilardo Garcia Alvarado, 48, kidnapped and raped an 18-year-old lady on March 14, 1999.
Twenty-five years later, “Mr. Alvarado still does not grasp the profound damage he has caused the victim and her family,” the Napa County District Attorney’s Office wrote. The inmate has additionally demonstrated a “complete lack of accountability for his behavior.”
The sufferer was focused when Alvarado noticed her handed out from alcohol inside her mates Chevrolet Blazer within the Riverside Shopping Center car parking zone in Napa, prosecutors mentioned. “He obtained the keys to the car and drove her to an unknown location, where he undressed the unconscious woman and raped her. Alvarado then drove to a Chevron gas station on the corner of Imola and Soscol avenues to get gas, where he was contacted and arrested by police,” the DA’s Office wrote.
The California Board of Parole Hearings held a listening to for Alvarado through a teleconference at Chuckawalla Valley State Prison on February 9.
Napa County Assistant District Attorney Paul Gero attended Alvarado’s listening to and requested an extended denial of parole.
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“The denial of Mr. Alvarado’s parole shows a commitment to safeguarding the rights and
dignity of the innocent,” Gero mentioned. “The effects of the kidnapping and rape of an unconscious victim by Mr. Alvarado continue to reverberate so many years later.”
His subsequent parole listening to is scheduled for February 2027, state inmate data present. He stays locked in Chuckawalla Valley State Prison in Blythe, Calif.
